Firouzja Returns To Titled Tuesday With Spectacular Win

GMs Dmitry Andreikin and Alireza Firouzja have been the victors in Titled Tuesday on November 8, each with scores of 9.5/11, Andreikin on tiebreaks and Firouzja outright. It was Andreikin’s tenth Titled Tuesday victory of the yr and Firouzja’s second, in simply eight tries since his return to the occasion on October 18.

Early Match

Andreikin constructed a half-point lead over the sector by reaching 9/10 with a win over GM Oleksandr Bortnyk within the tenth spherical, delivering checkmate in 34 strikes out of a Berlin Protection.

GM Tuan Minh Le joined Andreikin within the last spherical by defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura in an endgame as Andreikin made a 10-move draw with GM Jose Martinez.

Minh Le, who dropped his third-round recreation, had additionally defeated Firouzja within the tenth spherical to climb again into second place as Andreikin held the tiebreak benefit. Runner-up standing was nonetheless a serious feat for the participant who was a half-point behind after 9 rounds with probably the 2 hardest opponents within the subject arising.

November 8 Titled Tuesday | Early | Last Standings (High 20)

Quantity	Rk	Fed	Title	Username	Title	Ranking	Rating	SB
1	7		GM	@FairChess_on_YouTube	Dmitry Andreikin	3046	9.5	60.5
2	23		GM	@wonderfultime	Tuan Minh Le	2987	9.5	58.5
3	5		GM	@Oleksandr_Bortnyk	Oleksandr Bortnyk	3081	9	57
4	9		GM	@mishanick	Alexey Sarana	2997	9	52.5
5	19		GM	@vi_pranav	Pranav V	2978	9	51
6	37		GM	@AryanTari	Aryan Tari	2932	9	50.25
7	10		GM	@Jospem	Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara	3017	9	47.5
8	1		GM	@Hikaru	Hikaru Nakamura	3216	8.5	61.75
9	13		GM	@dropstoneDP	David Paravyan	3023	8.5	58.5
10	40		GM	@VerdeNotte	Gawain Jones	2897	8.5	49.75
11	12		GM	@DenLaz	Denis Lazavik	3004	8	52.25
12	18		GM	@rasmussvane	Rasmus Svane	3008	8	51
13	25		GM	@Sam_ChessMood	Samvel Ter-Sahakyan	2910	8	50.5
14	59		GM	@XDPS	Pablo Salinas Herrera	2869	8	50.25
15	8		GM	@BogdanDeac	Bogdan Daniel Deac	3013	8	48.5
16	118		GM	@Byniolus	Zbigniew Pakleza	2755	8	45.75
17	27		GM	@BillieKimbah	Maxim Matlakov	2934	8	45.25
18	80		GM	@TimurGareyev	Timur Gareyev	2811	8	44.5
19	29		GM	@Parhamov	Parham Maghsoodloo	2929	8	43
19	117		IM	@jakopogi	Michael Concio Jr.	2759	8	43
19	6		GM	@Sibelephant	Vladislav Artemiev	3024	8	43
56	152		WGM	@Meri-Arabidze	Meri Arabidze	2641	7	33

(Full last standings right here.)

Andreikin earned $1,000 with the victory whereas Minh Le took house a well-earned $750. Bortnyk wound up in third for $350, with GM Alexey Sarana in fourth for $200 and GM Pranav V in fifth for $100. WGM Meri Arabidze gained the $100 girls’s prize with a 7/11 rating.

Late Match

After a tricky early match, Firouzja began solely 2.5/4 within the late occasion earlier than profitable his last seven video games. His final three contests got here towards a “murderers’ row” of GM Jeffery Xiong, Nakamura, and GM Daniil Dubov. The final victory towards Dubov broke their tie to clinch Firouzja’s comeback and the match.

Regardless of his loss to Firouzja, Xiong completed in second place, which he achieved by defeating Nakamura within the last spherical.

November 8 Titled Tuesday | Late | Last Standings (High 20)

Quantity Rk Fed Title Username Title Ranking Rating SB

1 2 GM @Firouzja2003 Alireza Firouzja 3130 9.5 64.25

2 13 GM @jefferyx Jeffery Xiong 3012 9 55

3 49 IM @I_am_Javi Ernesto Javier Fernandez Guillen 2807 9 54

4 8
GM @dropstoneDP David Paravyan 3023 9 47.75

5 16
GM @Duhless Daniil Dubov 2997 8.5 54.5

6 12 GM @GM_dmitrij Dmitrij Kollars 2999 8.5 49.25

7 25 GM @Msb2 Matthias Bluebaum 2958 8.5 48.5

8 52 GM @AvitalBor Avital Boruchovsky 2847 8.5 47.5

9 3 GM @Oleksandr_Bortnyk Oleksandr Bortnyk 3081 8.5 44.25

10 29 GM @Fandorine Maksim Chigaev 2924 8.5 41.25

11 31 GM @TigrVShlyape Gata Kamsky 2915 8 48.25

12 28 GM @Beca95 Aleksandar Indjic 2929 8 46.5

13 11 GM @rasmussvane Rasmus Svane 3008 8 46.25

14 4 GM @exoticprincess Baadur Jobava 2981 8 45.75

15 38 GM @frederiksvane Frederik Svane 2859 8 45.25

16 1 GM @Hikaru Hikaru Nakamura 3216 8 44.75

17 24 GM @jcibarra José Carlos Ibarra Jerez 2903 8 44.25

18 9 GM @BogdanDeac Bogdan Daniel Deac 3013 8 43.75

19 15 GM @erichansen Eric Hansen 2950 8 43

20 5
GM @FairChess_on_YouTube Dmitry Andreikin 3046 8 42.75

45 91
GM @Goryachkina Aleksandra Goryachkina 2655 7 27

(Full last standings right here.)

Firouzja gained $1,000, the first-place prize, whereas Xiong took $750 for second. IM Ernesto Fernandez earned $350 for third place and GM David Paravyan $200 within the fourth place. Dubov secured $100 for fifth place regardless of his loss within the last spherical, and GM Aleksandra Goryachkina gained the $100 girls’s prize with a 7/11 rating.

Titled Tuesday is a weekly Chess.com occasion held for titled gamers. Two 11-round Swiss tournaments are contested each Tuesday, starting at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time/17:00 Central European and a couple of:00 p.m. Pacific Time/23:00 Central European.