GM Haik Martirosyan won the May 22 Freestyle Friday tournament after tying on points with GM Pranav Venkatesh. The event is Chess.com's weekly competition for titled players. Martirosyan secured the victory through tiebreak rules following a series of decisive final-round results.
Martirosyan and Venkatesh both finished with nine points. Martirosyan defeated GM Parham Maghsoodloo in the final round to gain the edge on tiebreaks. Venkatesh beat GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in his last game but fell short on the secondary scoring criteria.