On the 15th of December Lichess.org hosted the 9th Lichess Titled Arena! With this event the popular chess website also celebrated the 1 year anniversary of these Titled Arenas! 252 titled players from all over the world tried their luck in a bullet battle but in presence of the reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen all they could do was to fight for the second place! Magnus Carlsen who this time was playing under a nickname DrNykterstein came up with some crazy opening ideas. This time he went for a king walk just in the opening like in the “supposed secret online games of Bobby Fischer”, but got severely punished and got checkmated!
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DrNykterstein (2820) vs Tayka (2727)
A00 Lichess Titled Arena 9
1. f3 c5 2. c3 Nc6 3. Kf2 d5 4. Ke3 Nf6 5. Kf2 e5 6. Ke1 e4 7. Na3 Bd6 8. Nc2 O-O 9. e3 Re8 10. f4 d4 11. cxd4 cxd4 12. exd4 Bxf4 13. g3 Bh6 14. Bg2 Nxd4 15.Nxd4 Qxd4 16. Ne2 Qb6 17. Nc3 Ng4 18. Qe2 e3 19. d4 Nf2 20. Rf1 Bg4 21. Bf3 Bxf3 22. Qxf3 Qxd4 23. Qxb7 Rad8 24. Qf3 Nd3+ 25. Ke2 Nf2 26. Ke1 Bg5 27. h4 Bh6 28. a4 Re7 29. a5 Nd3+ 30. Ke2 Qc4 31. Ra4 Nxc1+ 32. Ke1 Nd3+ 33. Ke2 Qb3
34. Qc6 Qc2+ 35. Kf3 e2 36. Nd5 exf1=Q+ 37. Kg4 Qce2#
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