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No CCT, No Problem For Tuesday Winner

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The Titled Tuesday of December 12 was somewhat overshadowed by the Champions Chess Tour (CCT) Finals, but GM Denis Lazavik brought the two events together by winning the late Titled Tuesday following his elimination from the CCT. The earlier Titled Tuesday was won by GM Jose Martinez, his third win of the year after sweeping the October 17 events.


Early Tournament

With 518 players, the early Titled Tuesday was not quite as busy as normal, but it was still plenty strong enough. Martinez outlasted GM Tuan Minh Le and GM Dmitry Andreikin in the top three, with GMs Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Jeffery Xiong, Ian Nepomniachtchi, and more also participating and finishing in the top 20. Martinez reached 7/7 to become the last perfect player, which isn’t unusual, but what was unusual is that he did not fall into even a tie for first at any point thereafter either.

In between draws against Andreikin and Le in rounds eight and 10, Martinez faced Nepomniachtchi in round nine. Martinez came away with another point in a game full of hallucination and wonder. Both players made some mistakes and both made some great moves (Game Review awarding each player three exclamation marks). In the end, Nepomniachtchi gave Martinez one too many chances.

Martinez defeated GM Vladimir Fedoseev in the final round to maintain his lead over three other players (plus Fedoseev) who had been tied for second place. Of those three, Le was the only one to also win, his lockup of sole second place coming at the expense of GM Alexey Sarana. A very even game turned on a single blunder that lost a piece to a three-move combination.

Because of the results for the players on 8.5 points entering the last round, Andreikin jumped into third after beating Duda, even though he had only been on eight points. As in Le–Sarana, a single lapse of concentration decided the game.

December 12 Titled Tuesday | Early | Final Standings (Top 20)

























Number Rk Fed Title Username Name Rating Score Tiebreak 1
1 13 GM @Jospem Jose Martinez 3058 10 77.5
2 4 GM @wonderfultime Tuan Minh Le 3090 9.5 67.5
3 3 GM @FairChess_on_YouTube Dmitry Andreikin 3107 9 76.5
4 22 GM @Zhigalko_Sergei Sergei Zhigalko 2972 9 66
5 62 IM @scarabee43 Marco Materia 2861 9 65
6 11 GM @mishanick Aleksei Sarana 3041 8.5 74.5
7 6 GM @Polish_fighter3000 Jan-Krzysztof Duda 3061 8.5 73
8 10 GM @jefferyx Jeffery Xiong 3041 8.5 72
9 25 GM @Sychev_on_YouTube Klementy Sychev 2948 8.5 70
10 49 GM @Shankland Sam Shankland 2950 8.5 70
11 12

GM @dropstoneDP David Paravyan 3024 8.5 69.5
12 7 GM @Bigfish1995 Vladimir Fedoseev 3059 8.5 66.5
13 36 GM @Harsha_Bharathakoti Harsha Bharathakoti 2912 8.5 66
14 45 GM @Nitzan_Steinberg Nitzan Steinberg 2902 8.5 65
15 88 IM @sokidze Ihor Samunenkov 2775 8.5 52.5
16 14 GM @Shield12 Shamsiddin Vokhidov 3006 8 72
17 2

GM @lachesisQ Ian Nepomniachtchi 3097 8 70
18 103 GM @Aygehovit1992 Nikita Matinian 2789 8 69.5
19 5 GM @vi_pranav Pranav V 3054 8 69
20 15 GM @sergoy Sergey Drygalov 3003 8 69
64 102 GM @ChessQueen Alexandra Kosteniuk 2712 7 55

(Full final standings here.)

Martinez won $1,000 for his efforts, while Le earned $750. Tied on nine points, Andreikin claimed $350 in third, GM Sergei Zhigalko $200 in fourth, and IM Marco Materia $100 in fifth after tiebreaks. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk won the $100 women’s prize.

Late Tournament

Lazavik was officially eliminated from the CCT around 2:00 p.m. local Toronto time, with the late Titled Tuesday not starting until 5:00 p.m. Those three hours gave him apparently plenty of time to recover to not only play in Titled Tuesday, but to win it—and not only to win it, but win it outright.

While Martinez permanently separated from the pack in the seventh round, Lazavik did not do so until the 10th round. Like Martinez, Lazavik was the last perfect player, and on a 7/7 score as well. But Lazavik lost his next game, to eventual second-place finisher GM Matthias Bluebaum. Following the pattern set in the earlier Titled Tuesday, it was one blunder and done.

Lazavik won his next two games, which was enough of a recovery to regain sole first place entering the final round. The wins came against GMs Salem Saleh and Daniil Dubov. The game versus Dubov was again decided by a single move, even though on the surface 31…Re8 32.Ke2 looks like a quite harmless sequence.

Meanwhile, Bluebaum didn’t lose again after beating Lazavik… but he also didn’t win again, making draws in the final three rounds and slipping from sole first after eight rounds into a six-way tie for second after ten. Fortunately for him, his tiebreaks were still the best in that group.

December 12 Titled Tuesday | Late | Final Standings (Top 20)

























Number Rk Fed Title Username Name Rating Score Tiebreak 1
1 9

GM @DenLaz Denis Lazavik 3088 9.5 73
2 13 GM @Msb2 Matthias Bluebaum 3064 9 79
3 35 GM @Hrant_ChessMood Hrant Melkumyan 2946 9 77.5
4 4 GM @FairChess_on_YouTube Dmitry Andreikin 3122 9 76
5 18 GM @Njal28 Aram Hakobyan 3034 9 75.5
6 15 GM @ChristopherYoo Christopher Woojin Yoo 3030 9 72
7 43 GM @AryanTari Aryan Tari 2909 9 62
8 3

GM @Duhless Daniil Dubov 3124 8.5 72.5
9 2 GM @nihalsarin Nihal Sarin 3152 8.5 70
10 70 FM @TanitoluwaAps116 Tanitoluwa Adewumi 2793 8.5 67.5
11 8 GM @Jospem Jose Martinez 3077 8.5 64.5
12 16 GM @Angry_Twin Andrey Drygalov 2999 8 73
13 20 GM @Salem-AR Salem AR Saleh 3006 8 72
14 12 GM @mishanick Aleksei Sarana 3044 8 71.5
15 28 GM @Durarbayli Vasif Durarbayli 2922 8 70
16 54 GM @GMG Andrey Gorovets 2862 8 67
17 23 GM @Zhigalko_Sergei Sergei Zhigalko 2966 8 65.5
18 61 GM @KaydenTroffChess Kayden Troff 2800 8 63.5
19 132 FM @chessisveryfun1264 Shaaketh Sivakumar 2628 8 58.5
20 14

GM @dropstoneDP David Paravyan 3023 8 57.5
31 73

IM @Flawless_Fighter Polina Shuvalova 2769 7.5 60

(Full final standings here.)

Lazavik earned $1,000 with his victory. Bluebaum took $750 with the top tiebreaks in second. GM Hrant Melkumyan, Andreikin, and GM Aram Hakobyan rounded out the top five, winning $350, $200, and $100, respectively. For Andreikin, that meant a total winnings on the day of $550 in combination with his earlier performance. IM Polina Shuvalova won the $100 women’s prize, scoring 7.5 points.

Titled Tuesday


Titled Tuesday is Chess.com’s weekly tournament for titled players, with two tournaments held each Tuesday. The first tournament begins at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time/17:00 Central European/20:30 Indian Standard Time, and the second at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time/23:00 Central European/2:30 Indian Standard Time (next day).

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