Bullet Brawl July 13, 2024: Naroditsky Wins twenty first Brawl, Closes In On Nakamura’s All-Time Report

GM Daniel Naroditsky has moved one step nearer to seizing the highest spot on the all-time Bullet Brawl leaderboard after profitable the most recent version forward of GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Hikaru Nakamura, and 132 different titled gamers.

Now sitting on 21 victories, Naroditsky has received over $10,000 in prize cash from Bullet Brawl tournaments since its inception and is simply 4 wins shy of Nakamura’s document of 25.

The $100 high girls’s prize was received by the prolific IM Meri Arabidze, who outpaced regulars FM Anastasia Avramidou and WGM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya, whereas the group brawl was received by AiriChesslol.

The following Bullet Brawl will begin on Saturday, July 20, 2024, at midday ET/18:00 CEST.

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Congrats to Danya on ANOTHER #BulletBrawl win! 🔥

He clinched the victory forward of a robust area together with Arjun and Hikaru to earn his twenty first title! 💪 pic.twitter.com/UqgYMGCQpQ

— Chess.com (@chesscom) July 13, 2024

Naroditky’s mastery of the world format has by no means been unsure however in 2024, the U.S.-based content material creator has stepped it up a notch and discovered learn how to steadily usurp the beforehand indomitable Nakamura. 

The aura stemming from Naroditsky’s latest performances has transcended the Twittersphere and one chess fan (Steve Leibrock) has referred to as for Bullet Brawl to be renamed “DanyaBrawl,” although it needs to be mentioned that the most effective pun involving the eventual winner remains to be the self-titled “Danya Naroblitzky.”

Naroditsky kicked off the occasion with a punchy, 19-move win over the world number-four Arjun on the white facet of the Caro-Kann Protection, Fantasy Variation. Choosing a move-six pawn gambit, Naroditsky confused Arjun and capitalized on a number of consecutive errors.

GMs Emin Ohanyan, Tuan Minh Le, Andrew Tang, and IM-elect Faustino Oro had been all opponents that Naroditsky needed to face in his first 10 video games, and he scored 8/10 towards them, permitting him to remain simply in entrance of Nakamura, who scored 7/10 towards comparable opposition.

The standard that appears to separate Naroditsky from his GM colleagues is his potential to acquire extra miniatures, and that is what allowed him to surge additional forward of his chasers.

Within the first half of the occasion, he was in a position to produce six miniatures; two lasted simply 13 strikes (one was additionally completed in 11 however this was the results of a catastrophic blunder). The primary of those, towards French FM Tristan Breuil, options an aesthetically pleasing knight sacrifice.

Within the second recreation, towards Spanish CM Javier Ruiz Vasquez, Naroditsky confirmed that aggressive strikes that might be thought of suboptimal in classical chess can flip into wrecking balls in faster time controls.

Earlier than Bullet Brawl started, Naroditsky confirmed off simply how fast he’s in a match towards NM James Chirilov whereas streaming on Twitch.

Arjun’s second-placed end was additionally spectacular as he performed 9 fewer video games than the winner. Earlier within the day, Arjun was introduced because the board one for workforce India on the forty fifth Chess Olympiad alongside GMs Gukesh Dommaraju, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Vidit Gujrathi, and Pentala Harikrishna.

With three of the world’s high 10 on this workforce, count on it to contest the rostrum come September.

As a result of the Olympiad will see most of the world’s high gamers unavailable for 2 of September’s Bullet Brawls, we might even see the emergence of recent winners.

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