Titled Tuesday Blitz 24th June 2025 (Games and Results)
Titled Tuesday Blitz 24th June 2025
Mark Crowther - Wednesday 25th June 2025
The Titled Tuesday Blitz 24th June saw wins for V Pranav in the early and Denis Lazavik in the late, both finishing on 10/11.
In the early Pranav won his final round game against the leader Hans Moke Niemann, a four knights which proved to be a pretty convincing carve up. Magnus Carlsen was effectively out of the running after three rounds, in round 2 he was held to a draw by nine-year-old Indian player Aarit Kapil - in fact Carlsen was dead lost for most of the second half of the game (although out of the opening he had a large advantage). Carlsen then did lose in round 3, to 15 year-old Russian Maksim Ivannikov, Carlsen was winning, allowed his opponent back into the game who then proceeded to take his chance when offered a win.
In the late Denis Lazavik beat close rivals Oleksandr Bortnyk, Hikaru Nakamura and Volodar Murzin and drew with Fabiano Caruana and Parham Maghsoodloo on the way to 10/11. Carlsen played but finished nowhere and withdrew after 8 rounds, he was out of the running following losses against Jakhongir Vakhidov and Daniel Naroditsky (26...Kc7? blundered a simple tactic) in rounds 4 and 6.
I give the games for download, the size of the files makes putting them in a viewer unwise for load on my server and not very useful.
Titled Tuesday Blitz 24th June 2025 (chess.com INT)
Tue 24th Jun 2025 - Tue 24th Jun 2025 -
Official Site - Results
Titled Tue 24th Jun Early (11 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:3m+1spm) - Games in PGN: Games Early
Titled Tue 24th Jun Late (11 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:3m+1spm) - Games in PGN: Games Late
Titled Tue 24th Jun Early (11 Rds Swiss Indiv TC: 3m+1spm) - Games in PGN: Games Early
| Titled Tue 24th Jun Early chess.com INT Tue 24th Jun 2025 - Tue 24th Jun 2025
Leading Final Round 11 Standings: |
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| Rk | SNo | Name | Ti | FED | Rtg | Pts | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 |
| 1 | 6 | Pranav V | GM | IND | 3228 | 10 | 76 | 76 | 67.75 |
| 2 | 4 | Hans Niemann | GM | USA | 3299 | 9.5 | 73.5 | 73.5 | 61.5 |
| 3 | 2 | Magnus Carlsen | GM | NOR | 3322 | 9.5 | 70 | 73.5 | 63.5 |
| 4 | 8 | Jeffery Xiong | GM | USA | 3177 | 9 | 78.5 | 78.5 | 59.5 |
| 5 | 3 | Alireza Firouzja | GM | FRA | 3317 | 9 | 76 | 79 | 62 |
| 6 | 12 | Denis Lazavik | GM | BLR | 3155 | 9 | 76 | 78.5 | 60.75 |
| 7 | 7 | Parham Maghsoodloo | GM | IRN | 3188 | 9 | 69.5 | 73.5 | 59.5 |
| 8 | 5 | Dmitry Andreikin | GM | GEO | 3233 | 9 | 68 | 68 | 53 |
| 9 | 45 | Alexander Donchenko | GM | INT | 3019 | 9 | 66 | 69 | 55.5 |
| 10 | 42 | Andrew Tang | GM | USA | 3010 | 9 | 64 | 65 | 50 |
| 11 | 21 | Oleksandr Bortnyk | GM | USA | 3096 | 8.5 | 75.5 | 76.5 | 54.25 |
| 12 | 105 | Srihari L R | IM | IND | 2896 | 8.5 | 74 | 77.5 | 57.75 |
| 13 | 17 | Dmitrij Kollars | GM | DEU | 3104 | 8.5 | 71.5 | 71.5 | 50.5 |
| 14 | 1 | Hikaru Nakamura | GM | USA | 3331 | 8.5 | 70.5 | 73.5 | 55.5 |
| 15 | 9 | Fabiano Caruana | GM | USA | 3154 | 8.5 | 70.5 | 73 | 55.25 |
| 16 | 22 | Nils Grandelius | GM | SWE | 3071 | 8.5 | 64.5 | 65.5 | 50.75 |
| 17 | 64 | Aleksandr Shimanov | GM | RUS | 2951 | 8.5 | 63 | 64 | 46 |
| 18 | 43 | Mayank Chakraborty | IM | IND | 3016 | 8.5 | 60 | 61 | 44 |
| 19 | 166 | Armen Barseghyan | IM | AUS | 2749 | 8.5 | 59.5 | 62.5 | 51.5 |
| 20 | 60 | Zbigniew Pakleza | GM | POL | 2980 | 8.5 | 58 | 59.5 | 49.25 |
| 21 | 28 | Jose Martinez | GM | MEX | 3023 | 8 | 77 | 80 | 52.5 |
| 22 | 40 | Erik R. Gasparyan | IM | ARM | 3019 | 8 | 74 | 79.5 | 53 |
| 23 | 27 | Volodar Murzin | GM | INT | 3057 | 8 | 69.5 | 74 | 48 |
| 24 | 15 | Vladimir Kramnik | GM | RUS | 3083 | 8 | 68 | 70.5 | 47.5 |
| 25 | 70 | Alvar Alonso Rosell | GM | ESP | 2942 | 8 | 66.5 | 69.5 | 44 |
| 26 | 14 | Matthias Bluebaum | GM | DEU | 3112 | 8 | 66.5 | 68.5 | 45.75 |
| 27 | 47 | Daniel Naroditsky | GM | USA | 2978 | 8 | 66 | 68 | 44 |
| 28 | 62 | Egor Baskakov | CM | RUS | 2937 | 8 | 65.5 | 69 | 46.5 |
| 29 | 211 | Punin Andrii | FM | UKR | 2703 | 8 | 65.5 | 68.5 | 46.75 |
| 30 | 73 | Miłosz Szpar | IM | POL | 2954 | 8 | 65 | 66.5 | 42.5 |
| 31 | 32 | David Howell | GM | GBE | 3007 | 8 | 64 | 65 | 43 |
| 32 | 100 | Yannay Ben Ari | IM | ISR | 2854 | 8 | 61 | 61 | 40.5 |
| 33 | 141 | Krzysztof Jakubowski | GM | POL | 2791 | 8 | 59 | 60 | 44 |
| 34 | 36 | Aryan Tari | GM | NOR | 2975 | 8 | 57 | 60.5 | 43.75 |
| 35 | 25 | Marco Materia | IM | FRA | 3019 | 8 | 56.5 | 59.5 | 44.5 |
| 36 | 271 | Shamil Arslanov | IM | DJI | 2633 | 8 | 49.5 | 51.5 | 36.5 |
| 37 | 29 | Leon Luke Mendonca | GM | ATG | 3054 | 7.5 | 78.5 | 83.5 | 53.25 |
| 38 | 11 | Anish Giri | GM | NLD | 3123 | 7.5 | 74.5 | 79.5 | 49.75 |
| 39 | 30 | Vasif Durarbayli | GM | AZE | 3035 | 7.5 | 74 | 75 | 45 |
| 40 | 54 | Sam Shankland | GM | USA | 2991 | 7.5 | 72.5 | 75.5 | 44.25 |
| 41 | 63 | Samvel Ter-Sahakyan | GM | ARM | 2947 | 7.5 | 71 | 75.5 | 46.25 |
| 42 | 58 | Rudik Makarian | IM | RUS | 2962 | 7.5 | 69.5 | 73 | 44.5 |
| 43 | 56 | Roman Kezin | IM | RUS | 2977 | 7.5 | 69.5 | 70.5 | 40.75 |
| 44 | 41 | Alexander Rustemov | GM | RUS | 2981 | 7.5 | 65.5 | 67.5 | 38 |
| 45 | 82 | Aradhya Garg | IM | IND | 2898 | 7.5 | 65 | 68.5 | 41 |
| 46 | 69 | Antoni Kozak | NM | POL | 2919 | 7.5 | 63 | 63.5 | 37.5 |
| 47 | 18 | Tuan Minh Le | GM | VNM | 3063 | 7.5 | 62.5 | 63.5 | 44.75 |
| 48 | 129 | Sahib Singh | FM | IND | 2806 | 7.5 | 62 | 65 | 40.25 |
| 49 | 84 | Yunguo Wan | GM | CHN | 2886 | 7.5 | 61 | 63.5 | 38.5 |
| 50 | 67 | Roberto Junio Brito Molina | IM | BRA | 2909 | 7.5 | 60.5 | 64 | 42.25 |
| 648 players | |||||||||
Titled Tue 24th Jun Late (11 Rds Swiss Indiv TC: 3m+1spm) - Games in PGN: Games Late
| Titled Tue 24th Jun Late chess.com INT Tue 24th Jun 2025 - Tue 24th Jun 2025
Leading Final Round 11 Standings: |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | SNo | Name | Ti | FED | Rtg | Pts | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 |
| 1 | 7 | Denis Lazavik | GM | BLR | 3191 | 10 | 77 | 81 | 72 |
| 2 | 8 | Fabiano Caruana | GM | USA | 3173 | 9 | 84.5 | 89.5 | 71 |
| 3 | 14 | Oleksandr Bortnyk | GM | USA | 3107 | 9 | 75.5 | 81 | 62 |
| 4 | 1 | Hikaru Nakamura | GM | USA | 3328 | 9 | 75 | 78 | 59.5 |
| 5 | 6 | Parham Maghsoodloo | GM | IRN | 3193 | 9 | 72 | 73 | 55.5 |
| 6 | 9 | Abhimanyu Mishra | GM | USA | 3146 | 9 | 70.5 | 72.5 | 56.25 |
| 7 | 12 | Matthias Bluebaum | GM | DEU | 3123 | 9 | 66 | 67.5 | 51.75 |
| 8 | 15 | Volodar Murzin | GM | INT | 3074 | 8.5 | 76.5 | 76.5 | 53 |
| 9 | 32 | Daniel Naroditsky | GM | USA | 3035 | 8.5 | 71.5 | 71.5 | 50.5 |
| 10 | 49 | Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis | GM | GRC | 2932 | 8.5 | 70 | 75 | 55 |
| 11 | 86 | Leon Livaic | GM | HRV | 2858 | 8.5 | 62.5 | 62.5 | 42.25 |
| 12 | 11 | Sergey Drygalov | GM | KOR | 3114 | 8 | 73 | 77 | 49 |
| 13 | 24 | Sanan Sjugirov | GM | HUN | 3014 | 8 | 72.5 | 74.5 | 50.5 |
| 14 | 42 | Miłosz Szpar | IM | POL | 2958 | 8 | 70.5 | 72.5 | 49.5 |
| 15 | 21 | Rasmus Svane | GM | DEU | 3017 | 8 | 67.5 | 71 | 49.25 |
| 16 | 3 | Hans Niemann | GM | USA | 3270 | 8 | 67.5 | 69.5 | 44.75 |
| 17 | 20 | Vahap Sanal | GM | TUR | 3024 | 8 | 67 | 67 | 43.5 |
| 18 | 67 | Igor Lysyj | GM | INT | 2874 | 8 | 64.5 | 66.5 | 41 |
| 19 | 31 | Bojan Maksimović | IM | BIH | 2964 | 8 | 62.5 | 66.5 | 48 |
| 20 | 37 | Maksim Chigaev | GM | ESP | 2969 | 8 | 61.5 | 64.5 | 45.75 |
| 21 | 25 | Alexander Rustemov | GM | RUS | 2985 | 8 | 61.5 | 62 | 43.75 |
| 22 | 4 | Nihal Sarin | GM | IND | 3178 | 8 | 60.5 | 61.5 | 44.25 |
| 23 | 29 | Aryan Tari | GM | NOR | 2974 | 8 | 60 | 61 | 44 |
| 24 | 85 | Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian | GM | BRA | 2806 | 8 | 57.5 | 60 | 41.5 |
| 25 | 27 | Eric Hansen | GM | CAN | 2988 | 8 | 53 | 53 | 40.5 |
| 26 | 117 | Zhongyi Tan | GM | CHN | 2789 | 7.5 | 73 | 75.5 | 46.25 |
| 27 | 5 | Jeffery Xiong | GM | USA | 3152 | 7.5 | 66.5 | 66.5 | 42.25 |
| 28 | 34 | Zbigniew Pakleza | GM | POL | 2969 | 7.5 | 66 | 69 | 39 |
| 29 | 97 | Rohan Rajaram | CM | USA | 2788 | 7.5 | 65 | 69 | 42.25 |
| 30 | 35 | Anton Demchenko | GM | SVN | 2978 | 7.5 | 64.5 | 65.5 | 42.75 |
| 31 | 150 | Jack Rodgers | FM | AUS | 2695 | 7.5 | 64 | 67 | 43.25 |
| 32 | 57 | Luca Moroni Jr | GM | ITA | 2873 | 7.5 | 63.5 | 64.5 | 37.75 |
| 33 | 129 | Pavel Skatchkov | GM | RUS | 2736 | 7.5 | 62.5 | 63.5 | 39.25 |
| 34 | 33 | Sergei Zhigalko | GM | INT | 2956 | 7.5 | 62 | 65.5 | 40.25 |
| 35 | 55 | Pablo Salinas Herrera | GM | CHL | 2865 | 7.5 | 62 | 64.5 | 42.25 |
| 36 | 133 | Alan Morris-Suzuki | NM | USA | 2716 | 7.5 | 59.5 | 63.5 | 40.25 |
| 37 | 40 | José Carlos Ibarra Jerez | GM | ESP | 2898 | 7.5 | 59 | 63 | 40.75 |
| 38 | 56 | Markus Ragger | GM | AUT | 2877 | 7.5 | 59 | 61 | 35.75 |
| 39 | 196 | Nikolaos Spyropoulos | IM | GRC | 2623 | 7.5 | 59 | 61 | 35 |
| 40 | 65 | Nikita Matinian | GM | INT | 2877 | 7.5 | 56.5 | 58.5 | 34.75 |
| 41 | 66 | Bakhtiyar Askarov | IM | KAZ | 2830 | 7.5 | 52 | 52 | 33 |
| 42 | 194 | Louis Khoo-Thwe | CM | NOR | 2573 | 7.5 | 46 | 46 | 29.25 |
| 43 | 111 | Aleksandra Goryachkina | GM | RUS | 2740 | 7.5 | 44 | 44 | 29.75 |
| 44 | 36 | Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | GM | VNM | 2944 | 7 | 68 | 71 | 41 |
| 45 | 74 | Gianmarco Leiva | IM | PER | 2831 | 7 | 66 | 69 | 36.75 |
| 46 | 220 | Petr Sprenar | FM | MLT | 2612 | 7 | 66 | 68 | 46 |
| 47 | 73 | Alexey Reshetnikov | IM | RUS | 2804 | 7 | 65.5 | 68.5 | 41.5 |
| 48 | 148 | Wiktor Golis | FM | POL | 2705 | 7 | 65.5 | 68.5 | 40.75 |
| 49 | 63 | Ori Kobo | GM | ISR | 2847 | 7 | 62 | 65 | 37.5 |
| 50 | 113 | Nikolai Vlassov | IM | INT | 2739 | 7 | 61.5 | 65.5 | 36 |
| 466 players | |||||||||
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