Near Perfection Nets Nihal Tournament Over Nepomniachtchi, Naroditsky

Near Perfection Nets Nihal Tournament Over Nepomniachtchi, Naroditsky

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GM Nihal Sarin won the early Titled Tuesday event on May 30 for his second tournament victory in a row after winning last week’s late tournament as well. This week he scored 10.5 out of 11 points, one of the few players to achieve that score in a Titled Tuesday. In the late event, GM Conrad Holt came out ahead with 10 points for his first event win, also without needing a tiebreak.


Early Tournament

Although Norway Chess preoccupied several Titled Tuesday regulars this week, 466 players joined the early tournament, including GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Daniel Naroditsky, Vladimir Kramnik, and Jan-Krzysztof Duda. All of them finished in the top 10 but could not catch the red-hot Nihal.

Already on a perfect 7/7, Nihal faced Naroditsky in the eighth round and delivered checkmate in just 32 moves to improve to 8/8.

Nepomniachtchi was next in round nine. Nihal declined his King’s Gambit, then won in the endgame.

Two games from a perfect 11/11, Nihal fought for a win in the 10th round but only managed a 47-move draw against GM Daniil Dubov. A full point ahead of the field at this point, with another draw therefore sufficient to win the event, Nihal still defeated GM Sanan Sjugirov to complete the nearly perfect effort.

Despite their losses to the winner, Nepomniachtchi and Naroditsky managed to finish in second and third place. Nepomniachtchi took sole second place with 9.5 points after beating GM Matthias Bluebaum in the final round.

For Naroditsky, it was a 10th-round checkmate of GM Jose Martinez that ultimately secured third place on tiebreaks over four other players: GM Andrey Gorovets, Dubov, Kramnik, and GM Denis Lazavik.

May 30 Titled Tuesday | Early | Final Standings (Top 20)

























Number Rk Fed Title Username Name Rating Score Tiebreak
1 1 GM @nihalsarin Nihal Sarin 3229 10.5 74
2 3

GM @lachesisQ Ian Nepomniachtchi 3136 9.5 79.5
3 2 GM @DanielNaroditsky Daniel Naroditsky 3154 9 76
4 66 GM @GMG Andrey Gorovets 2820 9 68
5 10

GM @Duhless Daniil Dubov 3070 9 63.5
6 12

GM @VladimirKramnik Vladimir Kramnik 3021 9 63
7 11

GM @DenLaz Denis Lazavik 3014 9 63
8 8 GM @wonderfultime Tuan Minh Le 3057 8.5 74.5
9 21

GM @Sanan_Sjugirov Sanan Sjugirov 2970 8.5 73
10 9 GM @Polish_fighter3000 Jan-Krzysztof Duda 3045 8.5 70
11 18 GM @rasmussvane Rasmus Svane 2950 8.5 63.5
12 26 GM @KuzubovYuriy Yuriy Kuzubov 2924 8.5 63
13 15 GM @BogdanDeac Bogdan Daniel Deac 2961 8 72.5
14 27 GM @jcibarra José Ibarra 2913 8 71.5
15 4 GM @Msb2 Matthias Bluebaum 3060 8 70
16 36

IM @Rud_Makarian Rudik Makarian 2930 8 69.5
17 38 GM @lilleper1 Jonas Bjerre 2891 8 67
18 16 GM @Indianlad S.L. Narayanan 2963 8 66
19 60 GM @Cayse Martyn Kravtsiv 2837 8 64.5
20 83 FM @FMJoseHerrera Jose Herrera 2770 8 63
39 186

IM @Vesper2018 Anastasia Bodnaruk 2610 7.5 51

(Full final standings here.)

Nihal won the $1,000 grand prize, while Nepomniachtchi won $750 for second place. Naroditsky took home the $350 third-place prize, while Gorovets won $200 in fourth and Dubov $100 in fifth. IM Anastasia Bodnaruk won the $100 women’s prize, scoring 7.5 points.

Late Tournament

407 players joined the late tournament, which also ended not only with a sole first-place winner but a sole second-place winner. GM Eric Hansen lost in the very first round before scoring 9.5/10 the rest of the way. Holt, meanwhile, went undefeated, making draws against Naroditsky in the fourth round and Duda in the eighth.

That eighth-round game actually gave Duda the sole lead with three rounds to go, with seven players, including Holt, a half-point back. Of the top eight, however, only Holt went a perfect 3/3 the rest of the way, doing so against GMs Pranav V (below), Aram Hakobyan, and Cristobal Henriquez.

Hansen, meanwhile, took on the erstwhile leader Duda in the final round and won to secure second place.

May 30 Titled Tuesday | Late | Final Standings (Top 20)

























Number Rk Fed Title Username Name Rating Score Tiebreak
1 49 GM @dretch Conrad Holt 2878 10 69
2 37 GM @hansen Eric Hansen 2900 9.5 62.5
3 22 GM @Njal28 Aram Hakobyan 2962 9 73
4 33 GM @Durarbayli Vasif Durarbayli 2928 9 72.5
5 11 GM @vi_pranav Pranav V 3009 9 70.5
6 19 GM @ViIIagra Cristobal Henriquez 2966 9 67
7 30 GM @jefferyx Jeffery Xiong 2924 9 59.5
8 5 GM @Polish_fighter3000 Jan-Krzysztof Duda 3048 8.5 76
9 50 IM @mbojan Bojan Maksimović 2837 8.5 69.5
10 4 GM @mishanick Alexey Sarana 3043 8.5 66.5
11 36

GM @alexrustemov Alexander Rustemov 2893 8.5 65.5
12 73 GM @Nikolakis2014 Stelios Halkias 2774 8.5 56.5
13 21 GM @TigrVShlyape Gata Kamsky 2941 8 73.5
14 92 NM @chessforthesun Rick Sun 2714 8 72
15 6 GM @Oleksandr_Bortnyk Oleksandr Bortnyk 3015 8 71.5
16 10

GM @DenLaz Denis Lazavik 2996 8 67.5
17 27 GM @jcibarra José Carlos Ibarra Jerez 2925 8 67.5
18 14 GM @BogdanDeac Bogdan Daniel Deac 2989 8 65.5
19 7

GM @VladimirKramnik Vladimir Kramnik 3005 8 62.5
20 237 NM @SameerMujumdar Sameer Mujumdar 2502 8 61.5
41 99

GM @Goryachkina Aleksandra Goryachkina 2690 7 58

(Full final standings here.)

Holt won $1,000 in first place, while Hansen earned $750 in second. Once again, there was a five-way tie for third; on tiebreaks, Hakobyan finished third for $350, GM Vasif Durarbayli fourth for $200, and Pranav fifth for $100. GM Aleksandra Goryachkina was the winner of the $100 women’s prize with seven points.

Titled Tuesday

Titled Tuesday is an 11-round Swiss tournament held weekly on Chess.com for titled players. The two tournaments every Tuesday start at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time/17:00 Central European and 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time/23:00 Central European.

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