Hikaru Nakamura wins FiNet Open in dramatic final
02.08.2008 – The 7. FiNet Open ended with a triumph by Hikaru Nakamura. The American, who had qualified through the ICC Qualifyer, dominated the field right from the start. However, with two rounds to go, when he already looked to be a certain winner, he stumbled against Arkadi Naiditsch, lost, and allowed the German to catch up with him.
When Nakamura did not achieve more than a draw in the last round everybody believed the German would win the tournament – after all he was a whole queen up. But in desperate time trouble Naiditsch ran into a mate in three moves. Apart from Nakamura Sergei Movsesian and Alexander Motylev also scored 9 points, though were worse on tie-break points.
The finish was dramatic. The American seemed to have lost all hope when he followed the game of his rival on the huge screen in the foyer of the Rheingoldhalle and had to witness how Naiditsch’ opponent blundered his queen in one move. However, in desperate time trouble Arkadi immediately returned the favor and allowed Motylev to mate him in three moves. It still took a while to figure out that Hikaru Nakamura was best on tie-break, followed by Sergei Movsesian and the lucky Alexander Motylev, who had the same number of points as Nakamura.
Source: Chess Tiger
That is what happen when an outsider gets invited to the “Ole Boys Party”
He wins ON tie-breaks (criteria) – the S-B score.
“He wins IN tie-breaks” means that the tie-break games were played (which they weren’t)