Candidates!!

Big names won the Titled Tuesday events of March 5: GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Hikaru Nakamura, both of whom will be playing in the Candidates Tournament in four weeks. Firouzja won in the last round to reach a five-way tie on 9.5 points where he had the best tiebreaks, while Nakamura led after each of the final three rounds to coast to an outright victory.

GM Jose Martinez finished in third place in both events, and defeated GM Vladimir Kramnik along the way in both events.