Vietnamese Super-IM Minh Le gained his seventh Titled Arena, amassing a complete of 162 factors in a two-hour-long bullet format. 18 factors behind him with the silver trophy was 18-year-old GM Brandon Jacobson, a scholar at Columbia University. GM Dmitry Andreikin took the bronze trophy with 130 factors.
Andreikin was main the world for a time period, not dropping any of his first 18 video games (16 of which had been victories). Minh, nevertheless, was capable of overtake Andreikin’s early lead with a 15-game successful streak, even scoring 6.5-3.5 in opposition to Andreikin of their 10 video games in opposition to one another.
There had been some acquainted faces on this month’s Titled Arena. Multi-Titled Arena champion GM Oleksandr Bortnyk was 7 factors shy of the rostrum however nonetheless took 4th. NM ChessCommunity, who normally streams these arenas, determined to affix the frey and positioned forty first—not a foul exhibiting contemplating how gifted the participant pool was.
Minh was capable of achieve momentum and overtake Andreikin on this sneaky King’s Indian Defense sport.
https://lichess.org/ncVCrZhk/black
Andreikin nonetheless dominated the match regardless of inserting third. Here is a pleasant King-side assault he had.
https://lichess.org/I0QoQ0XC/black
In different information! There shall be a Super GM occasion at this time on Lichess that includes 8 robust GMs. The Levitov Chess 50k match begins at 15:00 UTC and can function a bevy of robust gamers together with a former World Champion.
IM Laura Unuk will present commentary for the Lichess Twitch/Youtube streams and Russian Language commentary shall be accessible on the Levitov Chess Channel. You also can observe the occasion on its broadcast web page.
