Sarana Wins Super Swiss, Qualifies For Speed Chess Championship

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GM Alexey Sarana won the Super Swiss on Sunday. The 21-year-old grandmaster from Moscow earned $4,000 and qualified for the Main Event of the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship.

Sarana won a 16-player knockout tournament on Sunday after beating GM Hans Niemann (@HansonTwitch) 7.5-4.5 in the final. The winner had eliminated GM Nodirbek Yakkuboev (@hanzo_hasashi1) in the semifinals, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk (@Oleksandr_Bortnyk) in the quarterfinals, and IM Bibisara Assaubayeva (@SaraBlackPanther) in the round of 16. All matches had a combination of 5|1, 3|1, and 1|1 games.

All games by Sarana (@mishanick)

Assaubayeva had made it into the knockout after finishing in 17th place in the Swiss tournament on Saturday which was played to deliver the 16 participants for Sunday’s bracket. That tournament consisted of 15 rounds of 3|0 games and was won by GM Hikaru Nakamura, who did not play on Sunday because he is already a participant in the Main Event.

Saturday Swiss | Final Standings (Top 20)

#	Rk	Fed	Title	Username	Name	Rating	Score	SB
1	1		GM	@Hikaru	Hikaru Nakamura	3216	12.5	110
2	4		GM	@mishanick	Aleksey Sarana	3044	11	98.75
3	9		GM	@HansOnTwitch	Hans Niemann	3032	11	93
4	61		GM	@ShimanovAlex	Aleksandr Shimanov	2923	11	85.25
5	13		GM	@Genghis_K	Federico Perez Ponsa	2948	10.5	92
6	8		GM	@hanzo_hasashi1	Nodirbek Yakubboev	2972	10.5	91
7	12		NM	@Sviridov_Valery	Валерий Свиридов	2921	10.5	83.5
8	5		GM	@Jospem	Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara	2983	10	88
8	7		GM	@Oleksandr_Bortnyk	Oleksandr Bortnyk	2988	10	88
10	41		IM	@NubairYT	M Nubairshah Shaikh	2751	10	76.5
11	24		GM	@GGuseinov	Gadir Guseinov	2896	10	74.25
12	18		FM	@yavrukurt40	Dincer Tasdogen	2926	10	72.5
13	44		FM	@Susal_De_Silva	De Silva L.M.S.T	2762	10	65.25
14	6		GM	@Alexander_Zubov	Alexander Zubov	2976	9.5	84.75
15	14		GM	@Sanan_Sjugirov	Sanan Sjugirov	2939	9.5	79.5
16	10		IM	@MITerryble	Renato Terry	2944	9.5	76.75
17	39		IM	@SaraBlackPanther	Bibisara Assaubayeva	2781	9.5	75.25
18	22		GM	@Shield12	Shamsiddin Vokhidov	2880	9.5	72.5
19	11		GM	@exoticprincess	Baadur Jobava	2926	9.5	71.5
20	40		GM	@ftorodent	Andrey Rychagov	2777	9.5	69