Bullet Brawl June 1, 2024: Naroditsky Out-Brawls Hyperbullet Rivals

Days after his second-place end within the Chess.com Hyperbullet Championship, GM Daniel Naroditsky completed atop June’s first Bullet Brawl forward of rival GMs Tuan Minh Le and Andrew Tang. After scoring 236 factors in a run that included a precision-laden win over super-GM Anish Giri, Naroditsky was the deserving winner of the $400 first prize.

A duel for the $100 girls’s prize might solely be decided by tiebreaks as WGM Aleksandra Maltsevskaya equaled FM Anastasia Avramidou‘s rating of 91 however was ousted as a result of conceding extra losses, whereas Cesar Frank Talledo Lagos bagged one more neighborhood brawl title.

The following Bullet Brawl will start on Saturday, June 8, 2024, at midday ET/18:00 CEST.

Standings

The stats that mattered for Naroditsky have been 66 wins, 5 attracts, and 9 losses as he surged to victory forward of 134 titled gamers within the fifty fifth version of Bullet Brawl on Saturday. Mixed with GM Hikaru Nakamura, the ruthless duo has now gained 42/55 occasions, or roughly 76 % of all Bullet Brawls since its inception.

Within the newest version, Naroditsky introduced his kind within the first recreation, toppling the world number-15 Giri on the white facet of the Alapin Sicilian Protection. The deft 25.Rxf6!! allowed Naroditsky to simplify right into a profitable endgame.

A single loss in opposition to IM Mykola Bortnyk was the one blight on Naroditsky’s scorecard within the first hour, and the slip was rapidly forgotten in a sea of tactical triumphs. One of many highlights of this era is a deconstruction of Avramidou’s Fashionable Protection, the place the American GM was capable of win regardless of by no means possessing a cloth benefit.

With an enormous buffer over the remainder of the sector, Naroditsky was capable of coast to victory in a Nakaura-less area. The convenience with which Naroditsky was capable of win bodes properly for his Chess.com Bullet Chess Championship ambitions, and in per week he’ll start play as one of many 4 favorites alongside GM Magnus Carlsen, Nakamura, and GM Alireza Firouzja.

For these trying to enhance their mouse expertise in bullet chess, you needn’t look additional than the brand new Chess.com Hyperbullet Champion Tang who gained 58 video games, drew 4, and misplaced 14 en path to a third-place end and gained $150 for his efforts.

Whereas streaming the occasion on Twitch, Tang gave visible perception into how essential predicting your opponent’s strikes and making secure pre-moves are within the quickest time controls whereas taking part in in opposition to Chessbrah GM Eric Hansen. 

With greater than 100 titled gamers competing in Bullet Brawl each week, it’s really extraordinary that solely seven distinctive gamers have gained the title. Whereas the names on the leaderboard usually are not stunning, the truth that sometimes taking part super-GMs similar to Carlsen, Giri, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave have but to safe a title is a testomony to the dominance of Nakamura and Naroditsky.