Titled Tuesday Blitz 24th June 2025 - Games and Results

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The Titled Tuesday Blitz 24th June saw wins for V Pranav in the early and Denis Lazavik in the late, both finishing on 10/11. In the early Pranav won his final round game against the leader Hans Moke Niemann, a four knights which proved to be a pretty convincing carve up. Magnus Carlsen was effectively out of the running after three rounds, in round 2 he was held to a draw by nine-year-old Indian player Aarit Kapil - in fact Carlsen was dead lost for most of the second half of the game (although out of the opening he had a large advantage). Carlsen then did lose in round 3, to 15 year-old Russian Maksim Ivannikov, Carlsen was winning, allowed his opponent back into the game who then proceeded to take his chance when offered a win. In the late Denis Lazavik beat close rivals Oleksandr Bortnyk, Hikaru Nakamura and Volodar Murzin and drew with Fabiano Caruana and Parham Maghsoodloo on the way to 10/11. Carlsen played but finished nowhere and withdrew after 8 rounds, he was out of the running following losses against Jakhongir Vakhidov and Daniel Naroditsky (26...Kc7? blundered a simple tactic) in rounds 4 and 6. I give the games for download, the size of the files makes putting them in a viewer unwise for load on my server and not very useful.

Source: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnews/ev ... -june-2025