Old Guard, New Guard Both Represent On Tuesday

The June 13 edition of Titled Tuesday was won by GMs Gata Kamsky in the early event and Jan-Krzysztof Duda late. The 49-year-old Kamsky, who challenged for the FIDE World Championship in 1996, won outright with 9.5 points ahead of a nine-way tie for second. Duda, 25, won the late tournament on the second tiebreak ahead of GM David Anton.

Early Tournament

Kamsky not only outlasted the field of 538 to win the event, but he finished just ahead of three of the biggest names in chess: GM Fabiano Caruana finished second, GM Hikaru Nakamura third, and GM Magnus Carlsen fourth.

That said, Kamsky only faced one of them, drawing Caruana in round 10. Kamsky did, however, defeat fifth-place GM Vincent Keymer the round prior, delivering checkmate with equal material.

With a round to go, Kamsky and Caruana were tied for the lead along with GMs David Paravyan and Daniil Dubov, all four on 8.5 points. Kamsky managed to grab the only win, toppling Dubov with the London System while Caruana and Paravyan drew.

Caruana, in fact, started 7/7 and then made only draws in the last four games. It was still enough for second place, in a draw-heavy tournament where the top four finishers were all undefeated.

June 13 Titled Tuesday | Early | Final Standings (Top 20)

Number	Rk	Fed	Title	Username	Name	Rating	Score	Tiebreak
1	29		GM	@TigrVShlyape	Gata Kamsky	2990	9.5	64.5
2	6		GM	@FabianoCaruana	Fabiano Caruana	3121	9	82.5
3	3		GM	@Hikaru	Hikaru Nakamura	3230	9	77.5
4	1		GM	@MagnusCarlsen	Magnus Carlsen	3294	9	74
5	35		GM	@VincentKeymer	Vincent Keymer	2939	9	71.5
6	12		GM	@FairChess_on_YouTube	Dmitry Andreikin	3043	9	71
7	4		GM	@dropstoneDP	David Paravyan	3117	9	70.5
8	15		GM	@DenLaz	Denis Lazavik	3045	9	69.5
9	71		IM	@TheRealGmochey	Dominik Horvath	2853	9	62.5
10	216		GM	@RaunakSadhwani2005	Raunak Sadhwani	3049	9	62
11	8		GM	@Duhless	Daniil Dubov	3084	8.5	72
12	17		GM	@BogdanDeac	Bogdan Daniel Deac	3010	8.5	70
13	57		FM	@snowlord	Ivan Yeletsky	2860	8.5	65
14	68		GM	@GMKrikor	Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian	2880	8.5	65
15	45		IM	@MatthewG-p4p	Matvey Galchenko	2889	8	74.5
16	30		GM	@VladimirKramnik	Vladimir Kramnik	2954	8	73
17	52		GM	@baki83	Etienne Bacrot	2886	8	72.5
18	2		GM	@nihalsarin	Nihal Sarin	3203	8	72.5
19	39		GM	@FGHSMN	Bharath Subramaniyam H	2917	8	70.5
20	58		GM	@Fandorine	Maksim Chigaev	2859	8	69
65	295		WCM	@Lady_Nika	Veronika Shubenkova	2543	7	60.5

(Full final standings here.)

Kamsky won $1,000 for his efforts while Caruana won $750, Nakamura $350, Carlsen $200, and Keymer $100. WCM Veronika Shubenkova won the $100 women’s prize, scoring 7/11.

Late Tournament

Although they ultimately tied for the lead out of 454 participants, Duda and Anton both lost in the sixth round of the late event (to GMs Pavel Eljanov and Hrair Simonian, respectively).

Neither lost again and Duda took the outright tournament lead by the end of round 10 with his win over GM Anton Korobov.

That was enough to barely retain the standings edge after a draw in the 11th round, even when Anton defeated Junior Speed Chess Championship participant GM Daniel Dardha in the round.

The first tiebreak was actually equal, but the second tiebreak gave a small edge to Duda.

June 13 Titled Tuesday | Late | Final Standings (Top 20)

Number Rk Fed Title Username Name Rating Score 1st Tiebreak

1 12 GM @Polish_fighter3000 Jan-Krzysztof Duda 3056 9.5 70.5

2 21 GM @tptagain David Anton Guijarro 2984 9.5 70.5

3 4
GM @dropstoneDP David Paravyan 3120 9 71

4 27 GM @Oleksandr_Bortnyk Oleksandr Bortnyk 2976 9 67

5 13 GM @BogdanDeac Bogdan Daniel Deac 3021 9 66

6 59 IM @fmshawnrl123 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux 2884 9 62.5

7 2 GM @nihalsarin Nihal Sarin 3214 9 61

8 45 GM @DanielDardha2005 Daniel Dardha 2914 8.5 72

9 31
GM @kuli4ik Mikhail Demidov 2947 8.5 71

10 22 GM @jcibarra José Ibarra 2951 8.5 56

11 14 GM @GOGIEFF Anton Korobov 3022 8 77

12 86 GM @EREBUNI91 Hrair Simonian 2799 8 73.5

13 28 GM @daro94 Dariusz Swiercz 2958 8 73

14 33 GM @jefferyx Jeffery Xiong 2934 8 70.5

15 38 GM @Vaathi_Coming Aravindh Chithambaram 2918 8 68.5

16 26 GM @gena217 Guillermo Vazquez 2976 8 67

17 67 GM @KNVB Aman Hambleton 2822 8 67

18 18 NM @Valera_B5 Valery Sviridov 2986 8 66.5

19 133 IM @elcandado Roberto Gomez 2683 8 66

20 71 IM @I_am_Javi Ernesto Fernandez 2789 8 66

52 120 WGM @Meri-Arabidze Meri Arabidze 2661 7 57

(Full final standings here.)

Duda’s win earned him $1,000 while Anton still got $750 for second place. Paravyan finished third for $350. GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won $200 in fourth place, GM Bogdan Daniel Deac $100 in fifth, and WGM Meri Arabidze won her fourth $100 prize of the year as the lead woman player.

Chess.com runs Titled Tuesday every week for titled players. Two 11-round Swiss tournaments run each Tuesday, an early event at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time/17:00 Central European and a later one at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time/23:00 Central European.