IM Minh Le gained the April Blitz Titled Arena on Saturday in a really tight occasion the place the highest 4 all completed inside 5 factors of one another. Most of the highest gamers berserked closely. Le berserked in 92% of video games and second-place GM Oleksandr Bortnyk berserked in 97%. Carrying the flag for anti-berserkers was seventh-place GM Vladislav Artemiev who didn’t berserk a single sport. Artemiev completed 12 factors behind Le with a efficiency score 170 factors increased.

Further down the desk had been some earlier Titled Arena winners. GM Daniel Naroditsky used his commonplace late-joining technique and it virtually labored. 1.5 hours after the occasion started he performed his first sport. He then performed 27 straight video games undefeated earlier than assembly stronger resistance on the high of the desk and faltering, he ultimately completed in tenth. World Champion Magnus Carlsen mysteriously performed one sport and left.

Recently Lichess has drawn consideration to an exquisite web site referred to as “Rosen Score,” and the developer kindly carried out assist for scanning arenas as an alternative of particular person customers. Simply enter the Arena’s URL into the web site and it’ll work as regular. This permits us to search out some pleasant achievements like this stalemate entice from FM Abilmansur Abdilkhair.

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GM David Lariño appears to know in regards to the Rosen Score web site or the streamer its primarily based on, or he simply occurred to completely replicate the necessities for the “egg” achievement. (Start a sport by shifting your E-pawn, then your G-pawn twice, thus spelling the phrase “egg,” and win.) 

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Various gamers achieved an “insufficient material” win. I’ll put the scariest of scare quotes round “insufficient” to point that these positions aren’t, beneath FIDE or Lichess guidelines, inadequate materials attracts. 

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As have to be defined to a minimum of one Lichess person per week, it’s potential to checkmate with a bishop or knight if the opposite facet has extra than simply their king.

No puzzle pack this time, should you’re determined for a great examine take a look at a brand new examine on Rook activation by the premiere Lichess examine artist; NoseKnowsAll. The subsequent Lichess Titled Arena is on April twenty third.