Vietnamese Tremendous-IM Minh Le gained his seventh Titled Enviornment, 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 College. GM Dmitry Andreikin took the bronze trophy with 130 factors.
Andreikin was main the world for a time frame, not shedding any of his first 18 video games (16 of which had been victories). Minh, nevertheless, was in a position to overtake Andreikin’s early lead with a 15-game profitable streak, even scoring 6.5-3.5 towards Andreikin of their 10 video games towards one another.
There have been some acquainted faces on this month’s Titled Enviornment. Multi-Titled Enviornment champion GM Oleksandr Bortnyk was 7 factors shy of the rostrum however nonetheless took 4th. NM ChessNetwork, who normally streams these arenas, determined to hitch the frey and positioned forty first—not a nasty displaying contemplating how proficient the participant pool was.
Minh was in a position to acquire momentum and overtake Andreikin on this sneaky King’s Indian Protection sport.
Andreikin nonetheless dominated the match regardless of inserting third. Here’s a good King-side assault he had.
In different information! There can be a Tremendous GM occasion immediately on Lichess that includes 8 sturdy GMs. The Levitov Chess 50k match begins at 15:00 UTC and can characteristic a bevy of sturdy gamers together with a former World Champion.
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