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Titled Tuesday Changes: Bigger Prizes, Championship Qualifiers, New Time

Do you love playing in live chess? Now everyone from candidate master to grandmaster can win cash prizes in a monthly tournament on Chess.com.

These tournaments will be fortitled players only, so you have to have some combination of red letters before your name: CM, NM, FM, IM, GM or WCM, WFM, WIM, WGM.

If you're a titled player who has yet to be verified, please send a message to either Patzer24 or Monitor with your name, title, FIDE or USCF ID #, FIDE url and a picture of yourself holding a sign that says "Chess.com" on it.

The prize fund of every tournament: $1,500.

The first Tuesday of every month, with the format:

• 11-round Swiss
• Time control 3+2
• Starts at 1 p.m. Pacific (GMT -8, 4 p.m. Eastern New York time, 9 p.m. London, 10 p.m. Paris, 23:00 in Romania)
• Prize distribution will be $500 for first, $400 for second, $250 for third, $150 for fourth, $100 for fifth
• We are also pleased to announce a new special prize of $100 for the best live stream.
• Ties will result in prizes combined and divided by number of tied players

As always, Chess.com will employ advanced cheat-detection measures to ensure fair play.

If you're not a titled player, you can of course follow all the games by clicking on the events tab in live chess, then clicking "watch" once the tournament begins.

Titled Tuesday tournaments air live on Chess.com/TV and Twitch.tv/chess with a prominent titled player hosting the broadcast.