GM Hikaru Nakamura is one win away from his thirtieth Bullet Brawl title after stringing collectively a 42-game successful streak throughout Saturday’s occasion and claiming the $400 first prize. Nakamura’s 75/78 efficiency earned him a rating of 284, 16 factors away from GMs Andrew Tang and Daniel Naroditsky, who will obtain $250 and $150, respectively.
The highest-scoring ladies’s participant was FM Anastasia Avramidou who carried momentum from her 8/11 Olympiad efficiency for Greece’s ladies’s crew, whereas the neighborhood occasion was gained by “Macmasterr.”
The following Bullet Brawl will happen on Saturday, October 5, 2024, at midday ET/18:00 CEST.
Standings
| Rank | Fed | Title | Username | Identify | Score | Rating |
| 1 | GM | Hikaru | Hikaru Nakamura | 3275 | 284 | |
| 2 | GM | penguingm1 | Andrew Tang | 3202 | 268 | |
| 3 | GM | DanielNaroditsky | Daniel Naroditsky | 3199 | 268 | |
| 4 | GM | Oleksandr_Bortnyk | Oleksandr Bortnyk | 3160 | 204 | |
| 5 | IM | Mykola-Bortnyk | Mykola Bortnyk | 3081 | 175 | |
| 6 | GM | dropstoneDP | David Paravyan | 3086 | 171 | |
| 7 | GM | Msb2 | Matthias Bluebaum | 3120 | 170 | |
| 8 | IM | ELECTRODYNAMIC_DRACULA | Havard Haug | 2913 | 153 | |
| 9 | GM | hansen | Eric Hansen | 3001 | 149 | |
| 10 | GM | ChessSharkz | Kayden Troff | 2961 | 142 | |
| 11 | IM | Kosak12 | Jakub Kozakowski | 2937 | 141 | |
| 12 | FM | 1800_strength | Dachey Lin | 2918 | 138 | |
| 13 | IM | mind1mover | Vuk Damjanovic | 2935 | 115 | |
| 14 | GM | Nitzan_Steinberg | Nitzan Steinberg | 2931 | 111 | |
| 15 | FM | BardArtem | Artem Bardyk | 2848 | 109 | |
| 16 | NM | Abund | Qingyu Yuan | 2834 | 102 | |
| 17 | FM | alreadybroken23 | Allaverdi Hamidov | 2798 | 99 | |
| 18 | FM | kids2010 | Pawel Sowinski | 2786 | 98 | |
| 19 | FM | anasta10 | Anastasia Avramidou | 2733 | 97 | |
| 20 | FM | GoltsevDmitry2000 | Dmitry Goltsev | 2802 | 97 |
It is a twenty ninth #BulletBrawl win for @GMHikaru who completed on 284 factors, the best rating since April 🔥 pic.twitter.com/laT9Zo7YZy
— Chess.com (@chesscom) September 28, 2024
Within the wake of an Olympiad dominated by India’s groups, American chess followers have been left questioning whether or not the inclusion of Nakamura would have made the race for gold within the open part a tighter one.
Regardless of this, Nakamura has made it abundantly clear that streaming and on-line occasions take priority over most over-the-board occasions. Nakamura’s protection of a chess sport between Manny Pacquiao and web character IShowSpeed garnered extra views than any Olympiad recaps.
200k+ Watched a chess sport between @ishowspeedsui VS @MannyPacquiao …WHAT???? pic.twitter.com/oDW6UNURVg
— Hikaru Nakamura (@GMHikaru) September 16, 2024
Along with his newest title, Nakamura has gained greater than 40 p.c of Bullet Brawls because the event’s inception and has continued to claim his dominance over the world’s finest within the 1+0 time management.
In Saturday’s occasion, Nakamura led from begin to end, courtesy of a 26-game successful streak and the aforementioned 42-game streak later. Through the first streak, Nakamura scored twin wins over foes GMs Naroditsky and Tuan Minh Le who would normally trigger him issues, however the world number-two was capable of capitalize on the few errors that they made.
Nakamura’s streak was ultimately snapped by the second-place finisher Tang, who tried to incorporate as many legends as potential in his chosen variation towards the King’s Indian Protection… the Samisch, Bobotsov-Korchnoi-Petrosian Variation.Â
The blip was short-lived for Nakamura, although, and he went straight again to his successful methods, changing lots of his video games in 30 strikes or much less. Even when the American bluffed, the “Nakamura impact” resulted in his opponents crumbling underneath stress.
Common streamer and inventor of the Caro-Kann Protection: Alien Gambit, CM Volen Dyulgerov (aka “Witty_Alien”) was not immune.
Whereas Tang and Naroditsky needed to accept second and third, their scores of 268 would have been adequate to win most different editions of Bullet Brawl this yr. For reference, their rating eclipsed the successful one set by Naroditsky within the August 10 occasion by a margin of 26 and reveals that successful Bullet Brawl is turning into harder each week.
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*Nakamura’s twenty ninth win will likely be added shortly.
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Bullet Brawl is an thrilling titled enviornment that options Chess.com’s high bullet specialists and takes place weekly on Saturdays. The format is a two-hour enviornment with a 1+0 time management; the prize fund is $1,000.
Very similar to Titled Tuesday and Enviornment Kings, Bullet Brawl typically options high GMs, together with Hikaru Nakamura, Daniel Naroditsky, Andrew Tang, Tuan Minh Le, and lots of extra!
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