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Carlsen Wins Again As Youth And Experience Both Have Their Day

Carlsen Wins Again As Youth And Experience Both Have Their Day

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GM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, the 13-year-old Turkish phenom, won his first-ever Titled Tuesday on April 22, scoring 10 points in a clean win. Later, GM Magnus Carlsen won his third consecutive late Titled Tuesday, this one coming off of a perfect 9/9 score at the 2025 Grenke Chess Freestyle Open. Here, Carlsen scored 10/11, winning out over GM Vladimir Fedoseev on tiebreaks.

Early Tournament

Erdogmus was the last of the 562 players to hold a perfect score, reaching 7/7. In the eighth round, he took on GM Alireza Firouzja. It took perhaps the game of the tournament for Firouzja to deliver Ergodmus's first (and only, it would turn out) setback of the event.

Firouzja ultimately did not lose a game, but after having drawn in round five, he also made draws in rounds nine and 11. Erdogmus, meanwhile, scored all three of his possible remaining points after the loss to Firouzja, reclaiming the tournament lead by the end of proceedings. His win in the final round, against GM Jeffery Xiong, not only clinched the tournament but was the best of those three games. 

As usually happens when first and second are both decided without tiebreaks, third place needed several tiebreaks as six players all scored nine points. GM Matthias Bluebaum, whom Erdogmus defeated in round 10, recovered against CM Georgijs Germanovs (2800-rated in Chess.com blitz) in the final round and ended up taking third place.

GMs S.L. Narayanan and Alexey Sarana rounded out the top five, with WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova taking the women's prize.

April 22 Titled Tuesday | Early | Final Standings (Top 20)

Number Rk Fed Title Username Name Rating Score Tiebreak 1
1 10 GM @legendisback1 Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus 3144 10 77.5
2 2 GM @Firouzja2003 Alireza Firouzja 3204 9.5 74.5
3 12 GM @Msb2 Matthias Bluebaum 3083 9 70.5
4 16 GM @Indianlad S.L. Narayanan 3079 9 70
5 7 GM @mishanick Aleksei Sarana 3133 9 69.5
6 3 GM @DenLaz Denis Lazavik 3184 9 69
7 1 GM @MagnusCarlsen Magnus Carlsen 3265 9 63.5
8 2 GM @ChristopherYoo Christopher Woojin Yoo 3081 9 59.5
9 4 GM @FabianoCaruana Fabiano Caruana 3151 8.5 79
10 17 GM @jefferyx Jeffery Xiong 3070 8.5 78.5
11 21 GM @AryanTari Aryan Tari 3045 8.5 71.5
12 28 GM @wonderfultime Tuan Minh Le 3009 8.5 68
13 45 GM @Vaathi_Coming Aravindh Chithambaram 2987 8.5 67
14 49 GM @crescentmoon2411 Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son 2943 8.5 63
15 25 GM @Jumbo Rinat Jumabayev 3042 8.5 61
16 6 GM @Sargsyan_Shant Shant Sargsyan 3125 8 76
17 42 GM @howitzer14 David Howell 2931 8 71.5
18 123 IM @AlexPapasimakopoulos Alexandros Papasimakopoulos 2773 8 71.5
19 34 GM @Zhigalko_Sergei Sergei Zhigalko 2987 8 71
20 59 FM @bubeliang Havard Haug 2906 8 70
71 124 WGM @Crazy_girl99 Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova 2719 7 57.5

(Full final standings.)

Prizes: Erdogmus $1,000, Firouzja $750, Bluebaum $350, Narayanan $200, Sarana $100, Tokhirjonova $100.

Late Tournament

Like Erdogmus, Carlsen won 10 games and lost one, but Carlsen's came very early in round three. Despite that, all of Carlsen's last five wins came against a top-10 finisher, helping to deliver him better tiebreaks against Fedoseev. They also played each other in round nine, this time with the eventual champion defeating the eventual second-place finisher.

It was Fedoseev's first setback of the tournament, creating a four-way tie with two rounds left, which included Sarana and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk as well as Carlsen and Fedoseev. In the 10th round, Carlsen defeated Bortnyk while Fedoseev and Sarana had already played, so Fedoseev won against GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda while Sarana lost to GM Rinat Jumabayev.

All that created the two-way Carlsen-Fedoseev tie that persisted through the final round. Carlsen used the Dutch Defense (not for the first time in the event) to lock up the tournament with a win over Sarana...

... while Fedoseev kept pace with a win over Jumabayev. Unfortunately for Fedoseev, he was 4.5 points behind Carlsen on the tiebreaks.

Bortnyk, GM Sina Movahed, and GM Bogdan Daniel Deac all finished on nine points to round out the top five, and FM Anastasia Avramidou won the women's prize.

April 22 Titled Tuesday | Late | Final Standings (Top 20)

Rank Seed Fed Title Username Name Rating Score Tiebreak 1
1 1 GM @MagnusCarlsen Magnus Carlsen 3265 10 72.5
2 10 GM @Bigfish1995 Vladimir Fedoseev 3144 10 68
3 14 GM @Oleksandr_Bortnyk Oleksandr Bortnyk 3081 9 69
4 9 GM @Sina-Movahed Sina Movahed 3113 9 68.5
5 13 GM @BogdanDeac Bogdan Daniel Deac 3080 9 68
6 18 GM @Jumbo Rinat Jumabayev 3042 8.5 70.5
7 41 IM @Szparu Miłosz Szpar 2940 8.5 67
8 38 GM @Kosak12 Jakub Kosakowski 2918 8.5 54.5
9 6 GM @Sargsyan_Shant Shant Sargsyan 3125 8 77.5
10 5 GM @mishanick Aleksei Sarana 3133 8 76.5
11 4 GM @Polish_fighter3000 Jan-Krzysztof Duda 3140 8 67.5
12 57 GM @MarkusRagger Markus Ragger 2888 8 66.5
13 15 GM @AryanTari Aryan Tari 3045 8 66.5
14 54 FM @KogotBobra17 Egor Koshulyan 2875 8 65.5
15 12 GM @Konavets Sam Sevian 3073 8 64
16 42 GM @Zkid Steven Zierk 2934 8 62.5
17 31 GM @vugarrasulov Vugar Rasulov 2954 8 62
18 75 IM @Aswathchess Aswath S 2807 8 60
19 26 CM @stollenmonster Egor Baskakov 2958 8 57.5
20 7 GM @ChristopherYoo Christopher Woojin Yoo 3081 7.5 74
52 95 FM @anasta10 Anastasia Avramidou 2712 6.5 58

(Full final standings.)

Prizes: Carlsen $1,000, Fedoseev $750, Bortnyk $350, Movahed $200, Deac $100, Avramidou $100. 

Grand Prix Standings

Bortnyk jumped into the top eight of the Titled Tuesday Grand Prix standings, which remained mostly static otherwise. 

Rk Username Score Title Name
1 @MagnusCarlsen 96.5 GM Magnus Carlsen
2 @Hikaru 94.0 GM Hikaru Nakamura
3 @DenLaz 92.5 GM Denis Lazavik
4 @LiemLe 91.5 GM Liem Le
5 @Jospem 91.5 GM Jose Martinez
6 @Oleksandr_Bortnyk 91.0 GM Oleksandr Bortnyk
7 @GHANDEEVAM2003 90.5 GM Arjun Erigaisi
8 @Polish_fighter3000 90.5 GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda

Similar to the open standings, one player entered the top eight of an otherwise steady ranking in the women's standings, that being GM Aleksandra Goryachkina, who is now fourth.

Rk Username Score Title Name
1 @ChessQueen 74.0 GM Alexandra Kosteniuk
2 @Flawless_Fighter 72.0 IM Polina Shuvalova
3 @karinachess1 70.5 IM Karina Ambartsumova
4 @Goryachkina 68.0 GM Aleksandra Goryachkina
5 @Meri-Arabidze 68.0 IM Meri Arabidze
6 @Sanyura 67.5 WGM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya
7 @jinbojinbo 66.5 GM Jiner Zhu
8 @Fh2411 66.5 IM Le Thao Nguyen Pham

Seniors (born 1975 or earlier), juniors (born 2009 or later), and girls (born 2005 or later) do not have SCC places on the line, but there will be cash prizes in each of these categories. The current leaders are:

Seniors: GM Alexei Shirov (@AlexeiShirov), 83.0 points

Youth: GM Andy Woodward (@Philippians46), 86.5 points

Girls: WFM Kalyani Sirin (@rollercoaster29), 63.5 points

Titled Tuesday

Titled Tuesday is Chess.com's weekly tournament for titled players, with two tournaments held each Tuesday. The first tournament begins at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time/17:00 Central European/20:30 Indian Standard Time, and the second at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time/23:00 Central European/2:30 Indian Standard Time (next day).

The next Titled Tuesday to hit 1,000 participants will award prizes to the top 30 players.

NathanielGreen
Nathaniel Green

Nathaniel Green is a staff writer for Chess.com who writes articles, player biographies, Titled Tuesday reports, video scripts, and more. He has been playing chess for about 30 years and resides near Washington, DC, USA.

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