GM Andrew Tang has change into the third participant in Bullet Brawl historical past to safe a hat trick after the American topped the 200-player titled area on Saturday with a rating of 255 factors. He seized the $400 first prize for the fifth time this yr forward of 27-time winner GM Daniel Naroditsky and 198 different titled gamers.
IM Renato Terry and GM Christopher Yoo completed third and fourth, successful $150 and $100, respectively, whereas FM Anastasia Avramidou’s 18th-place end noticed her edge out IM Karina Ambartsumova to choose up the $100 finest girls’s prize.
The following version of Bullet Brawl will start on Saturday, March 29, at midday ET/17:00 CEST.
Standings
| Rank | Fed | Title | Username | Identify | Score | Rating |
| 1 | GM | penguingm1 | Andrew Tang | 3208 | 255 | |
| 2 | GM | DanielNaroditsky | Daniel Naroditsky | 3219 | 245 | |
| 3 | IM | MITerryble | Renato Terry | 3135 | 239 | |
| 4 | GM | ChristopherYoo | Christopher Woojin Yoo | 3176 | 220 | |
| 5 | GM | jefferyx | Jeffery Xiong | 3042 | 198 | |
| 6 | GM | Oleksandr_Bortnyk | Oleksandr Bortnyk | 3137 | 185 | |
| 7 | FM | TanitoluwaAps116 | Tanitoluwa Adewumi | 2921 | 155 | |
| 8 | GM | Nitzan_Steinberg | Nitzan Steinberg | 2960 | 146 | |
| 9 | IM | yosephtaher | Yoseph Theolifus Taher | 2977 | 139 | |
| 10 | FM | GoltsevDmitry2000 | Goltsev Dmitry | 2873 | 139 | |
| 11 | NM | Abund | Qingyu Yuan | 2910 | 138 | |
| 12 | GM | Mikhail_Bryakin | Mikhail Bryakin | 2942 | 135 | |
| 13 | GM | dropstoneDP | David Paravyan | 3016 | 131 | |
| 14 | FM | edgarhay012 | Edgar Hayrapetyan | 2869 | 127 | |
| 15 | FM | Bryanl106 | Bryan Enming Lin | 2820 | 120 | |
| 16 | CM | profedechess93 | Luis Antunez Soler | 2772 | 115 | |
| 17 | FM | WindWhistler11 | Daniel Gutierrez Olivares | 2759 | 111 | |
| 18 | FM | anasta10 | Anastasia Avramidou | 2720 | 108 | |
| 19 | FM | pasteta13 | Mario Muskardin | 2692 | 102 | |
| 20 | IM | karinachess1 | Karina Ambartsumova | 2693 | 98 | |
As arguably the world’s quickest chess participant, Tang has naturally been a pressure in Bullet Brawls of the previous. At first of 2025, he had 4 wins and quite a few podium finishes to his identify, however his win charge nonetheless paled compared to the 37- and 27-time winners, GM Hikaru Nakamura and Naroditsky, respectively.
Nevertheless, Tang has began the yr with a bang, successful 5/11 of the most recent brawls, and now threatens to derail GM Oleksandr Bortnyk because the third most prolific participant on the all-time leaderboard.
All-Time Leaderboard
| Participant | All-Time Wins | 2025 Wins | 2024 Wins | 2023 Wins |
| Hikaru Nakamura | 37 | 3 | 19 | 15 |
| Daniel Naroditsky | 27 | 3 | 14 | 10 |
| Oleksandr Bortnyk | 10 | 0 | 7 | 3 |
| Andrew Tang | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| Jose Martinez | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Sam Sevian | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Ediz Gurel | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Nihal Sarin | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Alireza Firouzja | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Tuan Minh Le | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Yagiz Erdogmus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Yoseph Taher | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Pace, precision, and a splash of unorthodoxy had been the components that led to Tang successful 70 video games on Saturday. Though the event attracted lots of the world’s finest bullet gamers, akin to Bortnyk and GM Jeffery Xiong, Tang saved them in verify.
18-year-old Armenian FM Edgar Hayrapetyan, who’s ranked within the prime 0.01 p.c of Chess.com bullet chess gamers, was one among Tang’s early victims and because of a ferocious kingside assault, the sport lasted a mere 26 seconds.
Tang additionally posted a number of miniatures towards gamers rated over 3000, essentially the most spectacular coming towards GM Christopher Yoo, the thirteenth highest-rated bullet chess participant on Chess.com. Dueling with him within the Classical Variation of the Nimzo-Indian Protection, Tang spent 4 seconds conceiving an excellent knight sacrifice, permitting him to take the initiative and expose Black’s king concurrently.
Naroditsky and Canadian IM Anthony Atanasov had been the one gamers capable of rating positively towards Tang, and the previous defeated him twice. Naroditsky’s first win over the eventual winner noticed the gamers step away from their hyper-aggressive enjoying kinds and churn out an endgame that stemmed from the Ponziani Opening.
Regardless of Naroditsky’s skill to work via many video games, he was unable to maintain tempo with Tang for the third week straight. A 14-game successful streak on the tail finish of the occasion ensured that Naroditsky couldn’t catch him.
With this victory, Tang is getting ready to turning into the second participant to win 4 straight brawls. Ought to he win subsequent week’s occasion, he’ll earn a shot at breaking Nakamura’s document for many wins in a row.
3 weeks in a row 🔥🔥🔥
Andrew Tang has been on hearth up to now few weeks of #BulletBrawl! pic.twitter.com/2zVmrtS2jU
— Chess.com (@chesscom) March 22, 2025
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The video games from this week’s Bullet Brawl might be discovered right here.
Bullet Brawl is an thrilling titled area that options Chess.com’s prime bullet specialists and takes place weekly on Saturdays. The format is a two-hour area with a 1+0 time management; the prize fund is $1,000.
Very like Titled Tuesday and Enviornment Kings, Bullet Brawl typically options prime GMs, together with Hikaru Nakamura, Daniel Naroditsky, Andrew Tang, Tuan Minh Le, and lots of extra!
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