Vidit Wins June 29 Titled Tuesday

GM Vidit Gujrathi won Titled Tuesday on June 29 with 9.5 points out of 11. He held the tiebreaker advantage over second-place GM Oleksandr Bortnyk and third-place GM Baadur Jobava. GM Hikaru Nakamura finished with 9/11 for fourth place after tiebreaks, over GM Giga Quparadze and IM Tuan Minh Le.

479 titled players played in Titled Tuesday this week. The tournament was the usual 11-round Swiss at a 3+1 time control.

The live broadcast of the tournament, which was hosted by NM James Canty III (who was recently named Chess.com Coach of the Month).

Vidit started strong early with a smooth victory over GM Alexandra Kosteniuk in round three.

After scoring 10.5/11 to win last week‘s Titled Tuesday, GM Anton Korobov was again the last perfect player this week. He began 6/6 after delivering what turned out to be Vidit’s only loss of this week’s event.

In round 10, Vidit easily toppled GM Alexander Grischuk‘s King’s Indian (below), while Bortnyk defeated Nakamura to keep up with Vidit entering the final round.

Round 11 began with Vidit and Bortnyk as the only players on 9/10, and with Jobava and GM Daniil Dubov as the only ones on 8.5/10. Vidit and Bortnyk both fought for the win but each held a 76-move draw through time trouble, while Jobava joined the top three by taking down Dubov in a more interesting game. Nakamura, Quparadze, and Le all won in the last round to pass Dubov into the tie for fourth place.

June 29 Titled Tuesday | Final Standings (Top 20)

Number	Rk	Fed	Title	Username	Name	Rating	Score	SB
1	4		GM	@viditchess	Vidit Gujrathi	3087	9.5	68.25
2	5		GM	@Oleksandr_Bortnyk	Oleksandr Bortnyk	3039	9.5	64.75
3	20		GM	@exoticprincess	Baadur Jobava	2898	9.5	58.75
4	1		GM	@Hikaru	Hikaru Nakamura	3159	9	66
5	12		GM	@GigaQuparadze	Giga Quparadze	2980	9	64.5
6	19		IM	@wonderfultime	Tuan Minh Le	2888	9	51
7	42		GM	@hanzo_hasashi1	Nodirbek Yakubboev	2879	8.5	56.25
8	21		GM	@Alexsur1981	Aleksei Pridorozhni	2880	8.5	54.75
9	3		GM	@Duhless	Daniil Dubov	3067	8.5	54.25
10	41		GM	@GM_Crest	Sergey Shipov	2829	8.5	53.75
11	48		IM	@AlexOstrovskiy	Alex Ostrovskiy	2814	8.5	47
12	22		GM	@Beca95	Aleksandar Indjic	2858	8.5	45.75
13	7		GM	@FairChess_on_YouTube	Dmitry Andreikin	2979	8	56.75
14	32		GM	@Alexander_Donchenko	Alexander Donchenko	2868	8	55.75
15	8		GM	@GOGIEFF	Anton Korobov	2983	8	51.25
16	26		GM	@TigrVShlyape	Gata Kamsky	2853	8	49.5
17	43		GM	@VladDobrov	Vladimir Dobrov	2790	8	49.25
18	6		GM	@Alexander_Zubov	Alexander Zubov	3003	8	48.25
19	14		IM	@ChristopherYoo	Christopher Woojin Yoo	2925	8	47.75
20	28		IM	@ChessLover0108	Mahammad Muradli	2859	8	47

(Full final standings here.)

Vidit won $750 for first place, Bortnyk $400 for finishing second, Jobava $150 for third place, and Nakamura $100 for fourth. IM Bibisara Assaubayeva won the $100 prize for the top female player, scoring 7/11.

Titled Tuesday is Chess.com’s weekly tournament for titled players. It begins at 10 a.m. Pacific time/19:00 Central European every Tuesday.