Yakubboev Wins September 7 Titled Tuesday

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GM Nodirbek Yakubboev won the first Titled Tuesday of September, and his first since February 2020, with a score of 9.5/11, winning on the tiebreaker over GM Maksim Chigaev. GM Daniel Naroditsky took third with the best tiebreaker of the four players on 9/11, followed by Russian NM Valery Sviridov in fourth.

496 titled players participated in this week’s Titled Tuesday. The tournament was the normal 11-round Swiss with a 3+1 time control.

Live broadcast of this week’s tournament, hosted by WGM Nemo Zhou.

It was a wide-open Titled Tuesday with nobody ever really pulling away from the pack, including as many as nine players tied for first after eight rounds with a score of 7/8.

Chigaev was up by a half-point entering the last round after beating GM Andrew Tang, who hung a pawn fork, in round 10.

Chigaev then agreed to a draw against Sviridov in the last round without either side playing a move, even with four players on his tail at 8.5/10 (one of whom was Sviridov).

Yakubboev had drawn three of his four games from rounds six to nine, making him one of those players on 8.5 with a round to go. He was the only one of them to win his final game, defeating GM Sanan Sjugirov, who had been on the same score.

That left the path open for players on 8/10 to place. Danya Naroditsky took advantage by defeating GM Amin Tabatabaei (the last of the players on 8.5) with a nice tactical shot, one WGM Nemo Zhou on commentary proclaimed “deserves to be hung up on the wall.”

September 7 Titled Tuesday | Final Standings (Top 20)

Number	Rk	Fed	Title	Username	Name	Rating	Score	SB
1	13		GM	@hanzo_hasashi1	Nodirbek Yakubboev	2965	9.5	64.75
2	30		GM	@Fandorine	Maksim Chigaev	2905	9.5	64
3	3		GM	@DanielNaroditsky	Daniel Naroditsky	3030	9	57.5
4	10		NM	@Sviridov_Valery	Valery Sviridov	2978	9	57.25
5	12		GM	@exoticprincess	Baadur Jobava	2942	9	51
6	17		IM	@MITerryble	Renato Terry	2907	9	48.5
7	18		GM	@amintabatabaei	Amin Tabatabaei	2923	8.5	58.75
8	29		GM	@ArjunErigaisi2003	Arjun Erigaisi	2919	8.5	57.75
9	46		GM	@Lestofante90	Danyyil Dvirnyy	2823	8.5	55.5
10	28		GM	@erichansen	Eric Hansen	2896	8.5	52.75
11	16		GM	@Oleksandr_Bortnyk	Oleksandr Bortnyk	2912	8.5	52
12	87		IM	@GelmanAlexander	Alexander Gelman	2707	8.5	50.75
13	6		GM	@champ2005	Raunak Sadhwani	2984	8.5	50.25
14	11		GM	@Sanan_Sjugirov	Sanan Sjugirov	2938	8.5	48.5
15	9		GM	@Parhamov	Parham Maghsoodloo	2940	8	51
16	51		IM	@Volodar_Murzin	Volodar Murzin	2783	8	50
17	15		GM	@TigrVShlyape	Gata Kamsky	2893	8	49.5
18	60		FM	@Aradhya2000	Aradhya Garg	2751	8	46.5
18	59		GM	@Rodalquilar	Leonardo Tristan	2750	8	46.5
18	39		IM	@swimmerchess	Siva Mahadevan	2814	8	46.5

(Full final standings here.)

Yakubboev earned himself the $750 prize for first place while Chigaev took $400 for second. Naroditsky won $150 for third with Sviridov grabbing $100 for fourth. GM Aleksandra Goryachkina won the $100 prize for the top female player, scoring 7.5/11.

Titled Tuesday is a Swiss tournament that runs each week on Chess.com for titled players. It begins at 10 a.m. Pacific time/19:00 Central European every Tuesday.