Bullet Brawl information fell on Saturday after Chess.com’s highest-rated bullet and blitz chess participant, GM Hikaru Nakamura, swept by the sphere and amassed a rating of 320. With 82 wins, one draw, and one loss to his identify, solely Peru’s IM Renato Terry might forestall the streaming large from posting an undefeated run.

GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk and Jose Martinez completed second and third respectively, each reaching scores that on a traditional week would have been sufficient to bag them the $400 first prize.

The winner of the highest feminine prize was IM Polina Shuvalova, who scored a 12-move win within the dying seconds to leapfrog IM Karina Ambartsumova, whereas Sundram Kumar continued his dominance of the neighborhood occasion.

The subsequent version of Bullet Brawl will happen on Saturday, February 17, 2024, at 12 p.m. ET/18:00 CEST.

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Nakamura has damaged many on-line ranking information during the last 12 months; nonetheless, his newest efficiency in Bullet Brawl could trump all of them. Taking part in in an enviornment stacked with 147 titled gamers—together with GMs Daniel Naroditsky, Bortnyk, and Parham Maghsoodloo—Nakamura proved to be nearly invincible and skipped out to a 37-game win streak to start out the occasion.

The five-time U.S. champion, who streamed the sector on Twitch, even appeared to shock himself together with his efficiency, stating: “Man, I’m actually simply crushing everybody at present. That is fairly brutal really” after dispatching the 3000-rated GM Alan Pichot in 40 seconds.

Whereas Nakamura got here up shy of the most-win file (the American had scored 83 wins in August 2023), he nonetheless managed to smash the earlier rating file of 313, courtesy of miniatures in opposition to a number of the web site’s greatest gamers.

Days after being the primary participant to surpass the 3400-rating barrier in blitz, Nakamura performed in a self-proclaimed “move state,” his video games an ideal mixture of ways, profitable time scrambles, and boa-constrictor-style positional squeezes.

The closest Nakamura got here to shedding was in opposition to world number-29 Maghsoodloo, who was unable to flag the eventual winner after a calculation oversight.

Shuvalova, the twenty third highest-rated feminine participant on the planet, was additionally spectacular en path to securing the $100 greatest feminine prize, executing a clutch 12-move end in opposition to Polish IM Jonasz Baum.

When Nakamura scored 313 in 2023, pundits felt that this file can be unlikely to fall; nonetheless, Nakamura has confirmed that going undefeated in a two-hour titled bullet enviornment is inside the realm of chance. Breaking the brand new file will take a Herculean effort, but when anybody is able to procuring such a rating, the king of Bullet Brawl is the most effective wager.