IM Minh Le gained the May Titled Bullet Arena on Saturday by a huge 36 level margin. Winning his first Titled Arena approach again in September of 2017, Le has been a daily on the prime of the leaderboard from the start. It is among the largest margins of victory for a Titled Arena ever. Second place was one other common, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk. Third place was younger Greek GM Nikolas Theodorou who had an extended and worthwhile day. He additionally gained a robust Chessable prize match that ran straight earlier than the Titled Arena started.

In an effort to drag viewers away from the UEFA Champion’s League Final on Saturday Lichess scheduled the Titled Arena at exactly the identical time. (Nothing private UEFA, its simply enterprise.) In order to #DevelopTheRecreation we should generally #DeGrow different sports activities. The anti-competitive technique appears to have labored out effectively for Lichess. 355 chess gamers participated within the Titled Arena whereas solely 22 may very well be discovered to play within the Soccer recreation.

(EDITORS NOTE: The phrase “soccer” was used on this article as a substitute of “soccer.” This is as a result of the phrase “soccer” is the right one to explain the game, compared to the phrase “soccer,” which might be mistaken.)

Enjoy some puzzles from Saturday’s occasion!

https://lichess.org/examine/CFea7BPR/lmmncg0m

The subsequent Titled Arena can be on June 4. The subsequent UEFA Champion’s League closing with be on June tenth, 2023 in the event that they have not gone out of enterprise by then.