Daily News, Puzzles and More | 3/18/21
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Disclaimer: These news we taken from chess.com News. To see the full news check the link at the end of this excerpt
This week's Titled Tuesday saw a surprising winner. The Belarusian FM Denis Lazavik (@DenLaz) clinched the first prize as he edged out GM Jeffery Xiong (@jefferyx) on tiebreak. Both scored 9.5/11. Only 15 years old, Lazavik was the first FM to finish atop a Titled Tuesday in over a year.
This week's Titled Tuesday tournament had a total of 402 participants. It was an 11-round Swiss with a 3+1 time control.
Lazavik seems to be especially strong in online blitz. Although only an FM, he was the 25th seed in this tournament.
In the eighth round, he beautifully outplayed GM Dmitry Andreikin (@FairChess_on_YouTube):
The absence of regular participants such as GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Alireza Firouzja, and GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (all involved in the Magnus Carlsen Invitational) helped, but there was even more fortune involved with Lazavik's tournament victory.
In the final round, no move appeared after 1.e4 as the Azerbaijani GM Vugar Rasulov (@vugarrasulov) disconnected and couldn't get back to the game at all. Before that, GM Sam Sevian (@Konavets), Lazavik's opponent in the penultimate round, seemed to have resigned in a winning position.
Link to the full post: https://www.chess.com/news/view/denis-lazavik-wins-march-16-titled-tuesday
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