
The Best Of Titled Tuesday In 2024
Credit for this article goes to Torsten Blass, a professional data analyst who runs The Data Digest, a YouTube channel. You can visit his channel at https://www.youtube.com/@TheDataDigest.
Titled Tuesday is always a popular event, and that was no different in 2024: There were 106 tournaments (2024 being a rare year with 53 Tuesdays) with a total of 5,018 players participating. On average, each player appeared in 13.1 tournaments throughout the year.
Now, the question is, who were the best players throughout the year? There are any number of interesting ways in which the information can be broken down. Presenting the 2024 Titled Tuesday awards:
- Titled Tuesday Player of the Year
- Highest Average Score
- Top Percentage Performers
- Most Games Won, Lost, and Drawn
- Perfect Score Award
- Longest Winning Streak
- Sweeping The Day Award
- Best Competition Defeated
- Most Active Player
- Biggest Upset Tournament Winner
- Best Result For a Non-GM
- Most Common Matchups
- Best By Category Awards
- Conclusion
Titled Tuesday Player of the Year: GM Hikaru Nakamura
GM Hikaru Nakamura is the clear winner for overall performance in Titled Tuesday in 2024. He led all players in tournament victories (22), prize money winnings ($34,350), and also percent of tournaments won (22 of 93 tournaments played, or 23.7%).
GM Magnus Carlsen is second with 13 tournament victories, $22,100 in prize money, and winning 22.8% of events entered (13/57). GM Alireza Firouzja takes third with a 10% win rate, the third-most wins with six, and fourth in prize money at $11,500, only slightly behind GM Alexey Sarana's $11,750. There were six other players that won the tournament four or more times. and all of them made it into the top 10 of highest prize money.
Note: The prize money figures in this section do not count Titled Cup bonuses.
Most Tournaments Won
Name | Title | Fed | Wins | Tournaments | % Tourn. Won |
Hikaru Nakamura | GM | 22 | 93 | 23.7% | |
Magnus Carlsen | GM | 13 | 57 | 22.8% | |
Alireza Firouzja | GM | 6 | 60 | 10.0% | |
Denis Lazavik | GM | 5 | 56 | 8.9% | |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda | GM | 5 | 58 | 8.6% | |
Aleksei Sarana | GM | 5 | 89 | 5.6% | |
Oleksandr Bortnyk | GM | 4 | 96 | 4.2% | |
Jeffery Xiong | GM | 4 | 76 | 5.3% |
Most Prize Money Won
Name | Title | Fed | Total Prizes | Tournaments |
Hikaru Nakamura | GM | $34,350 | 93 | |
Magnus Carlsen | GM | $22,100 | 57 | |
Aleksei Sarana | GM | $11,750 | 89 | |
Alireza Firouzja | GM | $11,500 | 60 | |
Jeffery Xiong | GM | $11,350 | 76 | |
Jose Martinez | GM | $9,900 | 91 | |
Dmitry Andreikin | GM | $9,700 | 91 | |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda | GM | $9,500 | 58 | |
Denis Lazavik | GM | $8,800 | 56 | |
Oleksandr Bortnyk | GM | $7,450 | 96 |
Highest Average Score: GM Hikaru Nakamura
Which player has the highest average score, among those who played at least five tournaments? Nakamura wins again, with impressive 8.88 average, ahead of Magnus Carlsen's 8.65. Part of this is explained by playing on average a bit more games than Magnus (10.75 vs 10.35)—that difference in fact gives Carlsen a slightly higher average percentage, 83.6-82.6.
GM Anish Giri, who played every game in the 22 tournaments that he joined, comes in third place with a score of 8.45.
Name | Title | Fed | Avg. Score | Median Score | Best Score | Avg. Games/Tournament | Tournaments |
Hikaru Nakamura | GM | 8.88 | 9.0 | 10.5 | 10.75 | 93 | |
Magnus Carlsen | GM | 8.65 | 9.0 | 11.0 | 10.35 | 57 | |
Anish Giri | GM | 8.45 | 8.5 | 10.0 | 11.00 | 22 | |
Aleksei Sarana | GM | 8.44 | 8.5 | 10.0 | 10.94 | 89 | |
Denis Lazavik | GM | 8.41 | 8.5 | 10.5 | 10.80 | 56 | |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda | GM | 8.41 | 8.5 | 10.0 | 10.78 | 58 | |
Dmitry Andreikin | GM | 8.34 | 8.5 | 10.0 | 10.86 | 91 | |
Tuan Minh Le | GM | 8.25 | 8.5 | 10.5 | 10.71 | 55 | |
Andrew Hong | GM | 8.24 | 8.5 | 10.0 | 10.77 | 39 | |
Oleksandr Bortnyk | GM | 8.16 | 8.5 | 10.0 | 10.75 | 96 |
Top Percentage Performers
Because the following awards are based on percentages, there was a minimum of 50 games with each color to qualify. Also excluded were players who regularly skipped the early parts of a tournament and thus enjoyed a significantly higher rating than their opponent for easier victories.
Highest Winning Percentage with White: GM Magnus Carlsen
In the end, Carlsen gets this award by winning 82.5% of his games with White, beating out GM Sam Sevian's 82.2%—which was achieved in only one-quarter of the number of games.
Name | Games with White | Win% with White | Title | Fed |
Magnus Carlsen | 291 | 82.47% | GM | |
Sam Sevian | 73 | 82.19% | GM | |
Hikaru Nakamura | 502 | 80.48% | GM | |
Aleksei Sarana | 495 | 79.39% | GM | |
Levon Aronian | 88 | 78.41% | GM | |
Nikolas Theodorou | 60 | 78.33% | GM | |
Daniil Dubov | 112 | 76.79% | GM | |
Hans Niemann | 189 | 75.68% | GM | |
Amin Tabatabaei | 74 | 75.66% | GM | |
Fabiano Caruana | 193 | 75.65% | GM |
Highest Winning Percentage with Black: GM Magnus Carlsen
Carlsen comes out ahead of everyone here as well, and by an even wider margin. Second-place GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda actually played more games with Black than Carlsen, so arguably comes off better in the comparison than Sevian.
Name | Games with Black | Win% with Black | Title | Fed |
Magnus Carlsen | 299 | 73.24% | GM | |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 312 | 72.44% | GM | |
Alireza Firouzja | 260 | 72.31% | GM | |
Sina Movahed | 79 | 72.15% | IM | |
Azer Mirzoev | 176 | 71.59% | GM | |
Javokhir Sindarov | 158 | 71.52% | GM | |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 90 | 71.11% | GM | |
Nihal Sarin | 175 | 70.86% | GM | |
Anton Korobov | 82 | 70.73% | GM | |
Ivan Zemlyanskii | 84 | 70.24% | GM |
Lowest Losing Percentage with White: GM Hikaru Nakamura
The other giant of Titled Tuesday, Nakamura, finishes ahead of Carlsen in being the toughest player to beat in a game. However, neither player lost close to even one-in-10 games in which they had White!
Name | Games with White | Loss% with White | title | fed |
Hikaru Nakamura | 502 | 6.57% | GM | |
Magnus Carlsen | 291 | 7.90% | GM | |
Sam Sevian | 73 | 10.96% | GM | |
Hans Niemann | 189 | 12.17% | GM | |
Denis Lazavik | 309 | 12.30% | GM | |
Alexander Grischuk | 218 | 12.39% | GM | |
David Paravyan | 460 | 12.39% | GM | |
Ian Nepomniachtchi | 177 | 12.43% | GM | |
Fabiano Caruana | 193 | 12.44% | GM | |
Levon Aronian | 88 | 12.50% | GM |
Lowest Losing Percentage with Black: GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is the surprise leader in terms of losing the fewest games with Black, but the usual suspects are right behind him.
Name | Games with Black | Loss% with Black | Title | Fed |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 90 | 11.11% | GM | |
Magnus Carlsen | 299 | 13.38% | GM | |
Hikaru Nakamura | 498 | 13.65% | GM | |
David Paravyan | 455 | 14.07% | GM | |
Jeffery Xiong | 384 | 15.62% | GM | |
Denis Lazavik | 296 | 15.88% | GM | |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 312 | 16.03% | GM | |
Dmitry Andreikin | 480 | 16.46% | GM | |
Daniel Naroditsky | 344 | 16.57% | GM | |
Ivan Zemlyanskii | 84 | 16.67% | GM |
Most Games Won, Lost, and Drawn
Tournament performances are built game-by-game. Win, lose, or draw, every matchup counts. Who had the most of each in Titled Tuesday this year?
Most Games Won: GM Hikaru Nakamura
Nakamura managed to get 17 more wins than GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in 32 fewer games and, with 75.3% winning percentage he was ahead of Bortnyk’s 71.5%. Carlsen played few enough events that he misses this top ten entirely.
Name | Fed | Title | Total Wins | Win% | Total Games | Total Tournaments |
Hikaru Nakamura | GM | 753 | 75.3% | 1000 | 93 | |
Oleksandr Bortnyk | GM | 738 | 71.5% | 1032 | 96 | |
Sergei Zhigalko | GM | 716 | 65.2% | 1098 | 100 | |
Aleksei Sarana | GM | 711 | 73.0% | 974 | 89 | |
Dmitry Andreikin | GM | 673 | 68.1% | 988 | 91 | |
Gata Kamsky | GM | 670 | 61.0% | 1099 | 102 | |
Matthias Bluebaum | GM | 634 | 65.8% | 963 | 91 | |
Jose Martinez | GM | 625 | 70.5% | 886 | 91 | |
Alexander Rustemov | GM | 625 | 56.5% | 1106 | 103 | |
Mikhail Golubev | GM | 576 | 49.4% | 1166 | 106 |
Most Games Lost
Titled Tuesday is an incredibly strong tournament, there is no doubt about that, and there is no shame in being on this list. Only dedicated players, who love the game of chess so much that they will keep playing against such a strong field—no matter the results—will qualify. Marcel Winkels, a Dutch candidate master, participated in 94 tournaments, played 960 games and lost 723 of them, or 75.8%. That said, he did not have the highest loss percentage, which belonged to Colombian FM Mauro Vargas.
Name | Fed | Title | Losses | Loss% | Games | Tournaments | Rating | Best Rank | Median | Max |
Marcel Winkels | CM | 723 | 75.8% | 960 | 94 | 2161 | 171 | 2.0 | 5.0 | |
Aurelio Vila Dupla | FM | 553 | 66.8% | 828 | 85 | 2318 | 138 | 3.0 | 5.5 | |
Guadalupe Montano Vicente | NM | 533 | 63.7% | 840 | 77 | 2281 | 175 | 3.5 | 5.0 | |
Rushan Bogaudinov | FM | 520 | 52.7% | 987 | 97 | 2466 | 43 | 4.5 | 7.5 | |
Mauro Vargas | FM | 514 | 80.4% | 675 | 73 | 2415 | 117 | 2.0 | 6.0 | |
Mikhail Golubev | GM | 483 | 41.4% | 1166 | 106 | 2724 | 25 | 6.0 | 8.0 | |
Alexander Reprintsev | IM | 478 | 46.2% | 1035 | 97 | 2587 | 50 | 5.5 | 7.0 | |
Dimitri Korol | NM | 468 | 53.1% | 881 | 84 | 2487 | 72 | 4.5 | 6.5 | |
Hajiyev Kanan | FM | 463 | 45.7% | 1014 | 96 | 2572 | 39 | 5.5 | 7.5 | |
Carlos Eduardo Cardozo Munar | FM | 432 | 60.4% | 715 | 73 | 2296 | 112 | 4.0 | 6.0 |
Most games drawn: GM David Paravyan
GM David Paravyan not only got the most draws but also has a significantly higher drawing percentage than the other players, at 26%.
Name | Fed | Title | Draws | Draw% | Games | Tournaments |
David Paravyan | GM | 238 | 26.0% | 915 | 87 | |
Gata Kamsky | GM | 229 | 20.8% | 1099 | 102 | |
Alexander Rustemov | GM | 189 | 17.1% | 1106 | 103 | |
Matthias Bluebaum | GM | 176 | 18.3% | 963 | 91 | |
Dmitry Andreikin | GM | 171 | 17.3% | 988 | 91 | |
Hikaru Nakamura | GM | 146 | 14.6% | 1000 | 93 | |
Aleksandra Goryachkina | GM | 142 | 20.0% | 711 | 66 | |
Guillermo Baches Garcia | IM | 134 | 17.6% | 761 | 92 | |
Jeffery Xiong | GM | 122 | 15.4% | 791 | 76 | |
Alexander Reprintsev | IM | 115 | 11.1% | 1035 | 97 |
Perfect Score Award: GMs Magnus Carlsen and Jose Martinez
The only players that accomplished a perfect tournament in 2024 were Carlsen and GM Jose Martinez, both doing so in August.
Tournament | Name | Title | Fed | Score |
Aug. 6 Late | Magnus Carlsen | GM | 11/11 | |
Aug. 27 Late | Jose Martinez | GM | 11/11 |
Longest Winning Streak: GM Magnus Carlsen
First, let's establish just how difficult it is to produce any kind of winning streak in a titled tournament! The average maximum winning streak, just for grandmasters, was five games. Naturally, it's even more difficult for lower-ranking titles: international masters peaked at 3.6 on average, and the longest winning streak of FIDE masters was only 3.2 games. Candidate masters (2.87) and national masters (2.63) were below three.
Title | Median Streak | Avg. Streak | Max Steak | Players w/Title |
GM | 5 | 5.02 | 18 | 555 |
IM | 3 | 3.60 | 11 | 792 |
FM | 3 | 3.20 | 11 | 1575 |
CM | 3 | 2.87 | 10 | 819 |
NM | 3 | 2.63 | 7 | 745 |
Magnus's perfect tournament helped him to get to an 18-game winning streak after he then started 7-for-7 early on August 13. (He also won the first two games early on August 6, but then missed the next nine games, which here count as breaking the streak.)
Name | Title | Fed | Longest Win Streak |
Magnus Carlsen | GM | 18 | |
Hikaru Nakamura | GM | 14 | |
Leinier Dominguez Perez | GM | 13 | |
Ian Nepomniachtchi | GM | 13 | |
Daniil Dubov | GM | 12 | |
Jose Martinez | GM | 12 | |
Matthias Bluebaum | GM | 12 | |
Oleksandr Bortnyk | GM | 12 | |
Andrew Hong | GM | 12 | |
Aleksei Sarana | GM | 12 |
Hikaru got his 14-game winning streak on January 30, winning the last six games of the early tournament and the first eight games of the late tournament.
Surprisingly, Martinez did not get his 12-game streak around the perfect day! Instead, he lost the last game of the tournament before and the first game of the next tournament. On September 17, however, he won the last nine games of the early tournament and the first three of the late tournament.
Sweeping The Day Award: GM Hikaru Nakamura
In 2023, six players accomplished the feat of winning both the early and late event on the same day: Nakamura, Vachier-Lagrave, Martinez, Carlsen, and GM Wesley So. But, in 2024, only Nakamura accomplished the feat... and he did so three times! This out of the 42 days on which he played both events.
The chart below also includes the score of the second-place finisher, as it demonstrates just how precarious these sweeps were—all three times, he needed tiebreaks to win at least one of the tournaments.
Date | Time | Name | title | Fed | Score | Tiebreak |
Apr. 23 | Early | Hikaru Nakamura | GM | 10.0 | 83.5 | |
Apr. 23 | Early | Alireza Firouzja | GM | 10.0 | 73.5 | |
Apr. 23 | Late | Hikaru Nakamura | GM | 10.0 | 74.5 | |
Apr. 23 | Late | Christopher Woojin Yoo | GM | 9.5 | 70.0 | |
May 14 | Early | Hikaru Nakamura | GM | 10.5 | 80.5 | |
May 14 | Early | Alexander Grischuk | GM | 10.5 | 77.0 | |
May 14 | Late | Hikaru Nakamura | GM | 9.5 | 71.0 | |
May 14 | Late | Daniil Dubov | GM | 9.0 | 77.0 | |
Nov. 12 | Early | Hikaru Nakamura | GM | 10.0 | 80.0 | |
Nov. 12 | Early | Alireza Firouzja | GM | 10.0 | 79.5 | |
Nov. 12 | Late | Hikaru Nakamura | GM | 10.0 | 76.5 | |
Nov. 12 | Late | Aleksei Sarana | GM | 10.0 | 75.0 |
Hikaru and five other players managed to come in second place or better in both tournaments of a day:
- June 11: Nakamura placed second, losing tiebreaks to Sarana, in the early tournament but won the late event.
- July 2: GM Arjun Erigaisi placed second both in the early and late tournament despite tying the leader, GM Dmitry Andreikin and then Nakamura, both times.
- August 13: Carlsen placed second in the early and late event that day.
- August 20: GM Jeffery Xiong placed second in the early and late event that day.
- October 29: Firouzja placed second in the early and won the late event that day.
- November 19: Nakamura won the early tournament and placed second in the late event.
- December 24: Carlsen won the early event and placed 2nd in the late tournament.
Best Competition Defeated: Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura
And who beat the strongest opposition based on average rating of the players defeated? This prize is split into games with White and games with Black, while only looking at players who won at least 30 games with the given color.
Highest average rating in wins with White
And here are the result for the white pieces: The rating of Carlsen's opponents that he was able to beat with the white pieces was 2864 on average, with a median over 2900!
Name | Avg. Opp. Rating | Median Opp. Rating | Games Won (White) |
Magnus Carlsen | 2864.6 | 2909.0 | 240 |
Hikaru Nakamura | 2847.0 | 2892.0 | 404 |
Alireza Firouzja | 2820.7 | 2852.0 | 208 |
Wesley So | 2819.8 | 2857.0 | 34 |
Anish Giri | 2813.9 | 2822.0 | 89 |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2813.9 | 2837.5 | 224 |
Hans Niemann | 2807.1 | 2812.0 | 143 |
Nihal Sarin | 2807.1 | 2835.5 | 130 |
Javokhir Sindarov | 2805.6 | 2814.0 | 119 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2805.5 | 2837.5 | 70 |
Highest average rating in wins with Black
With Black, it is now Hikaru Nakamura ahead on average and median, with Carlsen actually falling to third place.
Name | Avg. Opp. Rating | Median Opp. Rating | Games Won (White) |
Hikaru Nakamura | 2853.4 | 2900.0 | 349 |
Alireza Firouzja | 2826.5 | 2859.0 | 188 |
Magnus Carlsen | 2817.6 | 2852.0 | 219 |
Denis Lazavik | 2807.1 | 2823.0 | 192 |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda | 2805.2 | 2832.0 | 226 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | 2804.8 | 2836.5 | 64 |
Javokhir Sindarov | 2790.8 | 2814.0 | 113 |
Anish Giri | 2789.2 | 2809.0 | 78 |
Fabiano Caruana | 2787.7 | 2821.0 | 128 |
Hans Niemann | 2786.4 | 2809.5 | 120 |
Most Active Player: GM Mikhail Golubev
Among the thousands of players to join Titled Tuesday in 2024, only one, GM Mikhail Golubev, participated in all 106 out of 106 tournaments. He also played every single one of the possible 1,166 games!
Name | Title | Fed | Tournaments | Games Played |
Mikhail Golubev | GM | 106 | 1166 | |
Alexander Rustemov | GM | 103 | 1106 | |
Gata Kamsky | GM | 102 | 1099 | |
Sergei Zhigalko | GM | 100 | 1098 | |
Alexander Reprintsev | IM | 97 | 1035 | |
Rushan Bogaudinov | FM | 97 | 987 | |
Derek Wu | FM | 96 | 844 | |
Hajiyev Kanan | FM | 96 | 1014 | |
Oleksandr Bortnyk | GM | 96 | 1032 | |
Daniel Gutiérrez Olivares | FM | MNG | 96 | 733 |
Naturally, Golubev also has the longest tournament participation streak, given that he played every tournament.
Name | Title | Fed | Consecutive Tournaments | Total Tournaments |
Mikhail Golubev | GM | 106 | 106 | |
Gata Kamsky | GM | 79 | 102 | |
Daniel Barria | IM | 56 | 95 | |
Alexander Rustemov | GM | 52 | 103 | |
Hajiyev Kanan | FM | 51 | 96 | |
Jose Martinez | GM | 46 | 91 | |
Sergei Zhigalko | GM | 43 | 100 | |
Asish Panda | NM | 43 | 87 | |
Nikita Shandrygin | FM | 42 | 84 | |
Jan-Krzysztof Duda | GM | 41 | 58 |
Biggest Upset Tournament Winner: GM Kacper Piorun
The table below shows the 10 lowest-rated players that won the Titled Tuesday tournament. All of them are grandmasters, and GM Kacper Piorun takes the award by winning on February 6 despite a rating of “only” 2844.
Rank | Name | Title | Fed | Rating | Score | Tournament | Total Tournaments |
1 | Kacper Piorun | GM | 2844 | 10.0 | Feb. 6 Early | 12 | |
1 | Vladislav Kovalev | GM | 2875 | 10.0 | May 21 Early | 69 | |
1 | Jaime Santos Latasa | GM | 2934 | 9.5 | Aug. 20 Early | 44 | |
1 | Velimir Ivic | GM | 2963 | 10.0 | Feb. 20 Late | 28 | |
1 | Kirill Shevchenko | GM | 2971 | 10.0 | Oct. 8 Early | 3 | |
1 | Volodymyr Onyshchuk | GM | 2972 | 10.5 | Dec. 10 Early | 40 | |
1 | Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli | GM | 2978 | 9.5 | Jan. 9 Early | 11 | |
1 | David Paravyan | GM | 2992 | 10.0 | Apr. 9 Early | 87 | |
1 | Awonder Liang | GM | 2993 | 10.0 | June 25 Early | 7 | |
1 | Kirill Alekseenko | GM | 3003 | 9.5 | Feb. 13 Late | 39 |
Best Result For a Non-GM: FM Reza Mahdavi
Reza Mahdavi, a 16-year-old FIDE master from Iran, accomplished something that no non-GM did in 2023: He won a TT tournament. Note that, despite his title, he had a higher rating at the time than any of the grandmasters on the previous list.
It happened during the late event on Christmas Eve, which denied Magnus Carlsen the chance to sweep a day in 2024. Five other FM/IM players managed to place 2nd in these highly competitive tournaments.
Place | Name | Title | Fed | Rating | Score | Tournament | Total Tournaments |
1 | Reza Mahdavi | FM | 3068 | 10.0 | Dec. 24 Late | 69 | |
2 | Rudik Makarian | IM | 3031 | 9.0 | Feb. 20 Late | 86 | |
2 | Joseph Girel | IM | 2813 | 9.5 | Mar. 5 Late | 4 | |
2 | Ivan Yeletsky | FM | 2931 | 10.0 | Mar. 26 Late | 34 | |
2 | Luke Harmon-Vellotti | IM | 2850 | 9.5 | July 9 Late | 1 | |
2 | Renato Terry | IM | 3050 | 9.5 | Oct. 22 Late | 57 |
Most Common Matchup
Two matchups happened 16 times each, and one player was part of both of them, who you might not guess on first glance: Martinez, who faced Nakamura and Carlsen 16 times each. In his games against Nakamura, Martinez managed to play as White 13 times. He lost all three games with Black but went +3 =3 -7 with White. Meanwhile, Martinez scored +5 =1 -4 in 10 games with White against Carlsen and +1 -5 in six games with Black.
Best By Category Awards
Titled Tuesday was also divided into five different sections in 2024: overall, women, juniors, seniors, and girls. So far we have looked at the best overall results. What about everyone?
Women: GM Alexandra Kosteniuk
It is not easy to rate which women performed the best in 2024, although there are two clear favorites: GMs Aleksandra Goryachkina and Alexandra Kosteniuk. Goryachkina won the most women's prizes, but Kosteniuk played only 37 Titled Tuesdays compared to Goryachkina's 66. Kosteniuk thus held the advantage in prize money per tournament, average score, and difficulty of opponent.
Third place is a close call between four contestants: IM Meri Arabidze, IM Karina Ambartsumova, WGM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya, and IM Polina Shuvalova.
Rk | Name | Title | Fed | $ Won | Best Finish | Avg. Score/Games | # Tournaments | Avg. Opp. in W |
1 | Aleksandra Goryachkina | GM | $1,600 | 27 | 6.5/10.8 | 66 | 2529 | |
2 | Alexandra Kosteniuk | GM | $1,400 | 37 | 6.8/10.9 | 37 | 2579 | |
3 | Meri Arabidze | IM | $1,000 | 37 | 6.1/10.6 | 72 | 2520 | |
4 | Karina Ambartsumova | IM | $900 | 41 | 6.1/10.8 | 85 | 2485 | |
5 | Aleksandra Maltsevskaya | WGM | $800 | 29 | 4.7/8.5 | 69 | 2510 | |
6 | Polina Shuvalova | IM | $700 | 29 | 5.8/9.8 | 55 | 2549 | |
7 | Le Thao Nguyen Pham | IM | $500 | 54 | 6.0/10.7 | 51 | 2464 | |
8 | Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova | WGM | $400 | 24 | 6.0/10.4 | 37 | 2493 | |
9 | Tatjana Vasilevich | IM | $400 | 40 | 3.2/4.8 | 23 | 2495 | |
10 | Anna M. Sargsyan | IM | $400 | 37 | 5.3/9.6 | 47 | 2497 |
Juniors: GM Denis Lazavik
GM Denis Lazavik wins Best Junior ahead of GM Christopher Yoo. Lazavik only trailed Yoo in regards to his longest winning streak (eight versus 10) and with a slightly lower winning percentage with White (74.4% versus 74.6%), but otherwise had the better year. He won more prize money with a better average score against a better average opponent.
Rk | Name | Title | Fed | $ Won | Best Finish | Avg. Score/Games | # Tournaments | Avg. Opp. in W |
1 | Denis Lazavik | GM | $8,800 | 1 | 8.4/10.8 | 56 | 2800 | |
2 | Christopher Yoo | GM | $4,500 | 1 | 7.8/10.7 | 51 | 2743 | |
3 | Pranesh M | GM | $1,700 | 2 | 6.2/8.4 | 34 | 2759 | |
4 | Reza Mahdavi | FM | $1,550 | 1 | 5.5/7.9 | 69 | 2695 | |
5 | Pranav V | GM | $1,100 | 1 | 7.9/10.7 | 43 | 2749 | |
6 | Artin Ashraf | FM | $200 | 4 | 5.7/8.6 | 58 | 2656 | |
7 | Marco Materia | FM | - | 7 | 7.5/10.9 | 44 | 2661 | |
8 | Mamedov Edgar | FM | - | 7 | 7.2/10.4 | 33 | 2660 | |
9 | Bharath S. H. | GM | - | 10 | 6.8/9.8 | 36 | 2699 | |
10 | Havard Haug | IM | - | 8 | 6.3/9.8 | 57 | 2591 |
Seniors: GM Gata Kamsky
GM Gata Kamsky is the only senior player who managed a top-five finish this year, coming fourth early on April 2. He also had the highest average score (7.7) in the top 10 seniors and the best rating, as well as the highest-rated opponents that he defeated. Kamsky was quite clearly deserving of this award.
Rk | Name | Title | Fed | $ Won | Best Finish | Avg. Score/Games | # Tournaments | Avg. Opp. in W |
1 | Gata Kamsky | GM | $200 | 4 | 7.7/10.8 | 102 | 2682 | |
6 | Alexander Rustemov | GM | $0 | 13 | 7.0/10.7 | 103 | 2624 | |
2 | Alexei Shirov | GM | $0 | 9 | 6.8/10.2 | 60 | 2618 | |
4 | Rodrigo Vasquez | GM | $0 | 9 | 6.8/10.1 | 59 | 2634 | |
9 | Vladislav Gontcharov | NM | $0 | 34 | 6.2/10.8 | 55 | 2467 | |
7 | Nikolai Vlassov | IM | $0 | 25 | 6.1/10.7 | 96 | 2486 | |
5 | Mikhail Golubev | GM | $0 | 25 | 5.9/11 | 106 | 2476 | |
8 | Daniel Barria | IM | $0 | 38 | 5.9/10.4 | 95 | 2493 | |
10 | Igor Yagupov | GM | $0 | 41 | 5.8/10.7 | 78 | 2451 | |
3 | Sergei Iskusnyh | GM | $0 | 40 | 5.6/9.6 | 56 | 2492 |
Girls: WIM Anna Shukhman
WIM Anna Shukhman only played 19 Titled Tuesdays in 2024, but made them count and deserves the final award of this article. On the top 10 from the leaderboard below, Shukhman had the best finish (41), the best average score (5.95), and was the only player whose average player defeated rated higher than 2500.
# | Name | Title | Fed | Best Finish | Avg. Score/Games | # Tournaments | Avg. Opp. in W |
1 | Anna Shukhman | WIM | 41 | 6.0/10.5 | 19 | 2507 | |
2 | Afruza Khamdamova | WFM | 120 | 5.8/10.9 | 25 | 2450 | |
3 | Kalyani Sirin | WFM | 77 | 5.2/10.8 | 30 | 2413 | |
4 | Megan Althea Paragua | WFM | 85 | 4.9/9.9 | 38 | 2411 | |
5 | Diana Preobrazhenskaya | WFM | 167 | 4.8/10.5 | 25 | 2434 | |
6 | Nguyen Hong Nhung | WFM | 98 | 4.8/9.9 | 28 | 2458 | |
7 | Guldona Karimova | WFM | 124 | 4.7/10.5 | 27 | 2397 | |
8 | Bozhena Piddubna | WFM | 43 | 4.5/9.8 | 43 | 2355 | |
9 | Veronika Shubenkova | WFM | 76 | 4.2/8.1 | 81 | 2433 | |
10 | Maria Teresa Jimenez Salas | WFM | 68 | 4.1/10.3 | 51 | 2359 |
Conclusion
And those are our Titled Tuesday Awards for 2024! We went through a lot of data, and I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I did compiling the stats.
Which award surprised you the most? The least? Do you have any disagreements with the award winners? Let us know in the comments!