Vietnamese Super-IM Minh Le won his 7th Titled Arena, amassing a total of 162 points in a two-hour-long bullet format. 18 points behind him with the silver trophy was 18-year-old GM Brandon Jacobson, a student at Columbia University. GM Dmitry Andreikin took the bronze trophy with 130 points.

Andreikin was leading the arena for a period of time, not losing any of his first 18 games (16 of which were victories). Minh, however, was able to overtake Andreikin’s early lead with a 15-game winning streak, even scoring 6.5-3.5 against Andreikin in their 10 games against each other.  

There were some familiar faces in this month’s Titled Arena. Multi-Titled Arena champion GM Oleksandr Bortnyk was 7 points shy of the podium but still took 4th. NM ChessNetwork, who usually streams these arenas, decided to join the frey and placed 41st—not a bad showing considering how talented the player pool was.

Minh was able to gain momentum and overtake Andreikin in this sneaky King's Indian Defense game.

https://lichess.org/ncVCrZhk/black

Andreikin still dominated the tournament despite placing 3rd. Here is a nice King-side attack he had.

https://lichess.org/I0QoQ0XC/black

In other news! There will be a Super GM event today on Lichess featuring 8 strong GMs. The Levitov Chess 50k tournament starts at 15:00 UTC and will feature a bevy of strong players including a former World Champion.

• GM Sergey Karjakin
• GM Peter Svidler
• GM Danill Dubov
• GM Aleksandr Shimanov
• GM Vladimir Fedoseev
• GM Alexander Grischuk
• GM Boris Gelfand
• GM Vladimir Kramnik

IM Laura Unuk will provide commentary for the Lichess Twitch/Youtube streams and Russian Language commentary will be available on the Levitov Chess Channel. You can also follow the event on its broadcast page.