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GM Magnus Carlsen wins fourth consecutive Lichess Titled Arena

T. Alexander Lystad (@arex) Chess

The craziest finish yet

Lichess Titled Arena 4 set all kinds of new records. This time around we had 218 titled participants, including 34 GMs, playing bullet games against each other for 2 hours straight. Would World Champion Magnus Carlsen be able to defend his three-event long winning streak against this strong field?

An unknown GM account, @CleverTacticButFail, who was later revealed to be GM Andrew Tang, took the lead early on and held it for most of the tournament. At some point, GM Magnus Carlsen (@DrDrunkenstein) was more than 30 points behind the tournament leader. However, the last 30 minutes of the tournament turned into an insane comeback story that will be remembered for a very long time. Tang's nerves may have gotten in his way, or maybe he just got unlucky. In either case, he took a few losses and draws and was unable to maintain the valuable fire (winning streak). Magnus Carlsen, on his part, pulled off an incredible, and unheard of, 19-game winning streak to close the gap and finish the tournament 8 points ahead of Andrew Tang.

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Deathmatch: GM Tang - FM Rozman

Hi IM @lovlas Announcements

GM Andrew Tang takes on FM Levy Rozman in an epic battle to the death

This Sunday, for one night only: GM Andrew "Penguin" Tang takes on FM Levy "Crew64" Rozman. The internet is no longer big enough for both of them. Only one can come out alive.

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Our Favourite Open Source Chess Websites

Thibault Duplessis Chess

Because sharing is caring

What a time to be a chess player! The Internet allows our game to thrive, powered by an ever-growing community of chess developers.

Did you know? The success of the Internet lies in open source. Every website, commercial or not, is mostly powered by open source software! Open source is about sharing ideas and code, so developers don't have to reinvent everything all the time.

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Lichess Titled Arena 4

T. Alexander Lystad (@arex) Announcements

The Lichess Titled Arena returns with a $3200 prize pool!

In March, World Champion Magnus Carlsen won the Lichess Titled Arena and donated his first place prize back to Lichess for the third consecutive time. Now we are announcing the fourth Lichess Titled Arena which will take place on April 12th. We have also received a generous donation of $700 specifically for this event, making the total prize pool for the event $3200, including the $2250 first prize. There are prizes for the top 6 places.

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Karjakin Catching up Fast in Round 11 of the Candidates

Nojoke Chess

Caruana still in the lead

Sergey Karjakin continues his incredible comeback and is now only one point from leading the tournament after defeating Levon Aronian. For now though, Fabiano Caruana remains the sole leader after drawing Vladimir Kramnik. Ding Liren is surely kicking himself after throwing away a golden opportunity and drawing with Alexander Grischuk. The Shakhriyar Mamedyarov vs Wesley So game ended in a draw.

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