GM Oleksandr Bortnyk gained the Lichess 960 Titled Area on Saturday, 4 factors forward of second place GM Dimitry Andreikin. The occasion’s time management (3+2) and preliminary scrambled items appear particularly ill-suited to berserking which provides an additional level for halving your individual obtainable time, and in addition, related for this occasion removes any increment. With 960 chess you can also’t rely on a number of strikes firstly of every sport being “freebies,” performed from reminiscence with out having to determine something out on the board. Nonetheless, Bortnyk berserked 91% of his video games. Andreikin solely berserked 3 of his 36 video games, whereas Third place NM Jasugi99 was additionally a heavy berserker. He halved his time in each single sport performed within the occasion.
Take pleasure in some puzzles from the occasion:
https://lichess.org/examine/gJMiuA5i/jzNnWgb5
The subsequent Titled Area might be on February twenty second.
