Bullet Brawl July 11, 2026: Nakamura Wins 50 Video games En Route To twelfth Title In 2026

For the twelfth time in 2026, GM Hikaru Nakamura triumphed within the Bullet Brawl enviornment after he received 50, drew eight, and misplaced 11 video games on Saturday. With a rating of 172 factors, Nakamura completed 27 factors away from the second-placed GM Arjun Erigaisi, 30 forward of GM Christopher Yoo, and 36 forward of hyperbullet famous person GM Andrew Tang.

The high 4 finishers will obtain $400, $250, $150, and $100, respectively, whereas WIM Melika Mohammadi secured the $100 finest girls’s prize for the second week in a row.

The subsequent version of Bullet Brawl will start on Saturday, July 18, at 12 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. CET.

Standings

(Full ultimate standings right here.)

Saturday’s Bullet Brawl marked one other complete victory for the American juggernaut Nakamura in a discipline that includes final week’s winner, in addition to GMs Yoo, Tang, Tuan Minh Le, Volodar Murzin, Oleksandr Bortnyk, and, for a fleeting second, GM Magnus Carlsen.

Unperturbed by a gap loss to Arjun, Nakamura conceded simply two attracts in his subsequent 22 video games, giving him a snug lead on the high. 3 0 Thursday specialist and IM Renato Terry grew to become one in every of Nakamura’s victims after he performed the careless 20…Bd5??, costing him an change.

Nakamura additionally notched a number of fast wins over opponents who dedicated pressure-induced blunders. The typically stable GM Sina Movahed was one such participant who was felled in fewer than 20 strikes by a smothered checkmate.

At the midway level, Arjun and Yoo had established themselves as Nakamura’s primary challengers; nonetheless, Nakamura discovered methods to maintain his nostril in entrance any time they tried to shut the hole. Arjun’s finest streak of the occasion included wins over Murzin, GM Kayden Troff, Bortnyk, and IM Faustino Oro, although he was one-upped by Nakamura, who received 11 in a row.

In the ultimate sport of his streak, Nakamura defeated Arjun in 11 strikes off the again of a pre-move mishap.

The pair performed for a 3rd and ultimate time within the ultimate quarter of the world, however by then Nakamura had already cemented his spot on the high. Still, the American clawed his manner again from a dropping place and punished an misguided liquidation try by Arjun.

What Michael Phelps was to swimming and Wayne Gretzky was to ice hockey, Nakamura is to Bullet Brawl. Following his newest victory, Nakamura has received 61 of the 164 Bullet Brawl arenas since 2023, or simply over 37 p.c.

Accounting for a proportion of occasions he didn’t take part in, his win charge is near 50%, a rare feat contemplating about 200 titled gamers contest Bullet Brawl every week.

All-Time Leaderboard

Player	All-Time Wins	2026 Wins	2025 Wins	2024 Wins	2023 Wins
GM Hikaru Nakamura	61	12	15	19	15
GM Daniel Naroditsky	32	N/A	8	14	10
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk	17	4	3	7	3
GM Andrew Tang	15	1	10	4	0
GM Ediz Gurel	10	2	6	2	0
GM Arjun Erigaisi	4	4	0	0	0
GM Jose Martinez	4	0	0	1	3
IM Renato Terry	3	3	0	0	0
GM Yagiz Erdogmus	3	1	1	1	0
GM Nihal Sarin	3	0	1	0	2
GM Jeffery Xiong	2	0	2	0	0
GM Sam Sevian	2	0	1	1	0
GM Alireza Firouzja	2	0	1	1	0
GM Andy Woodward	1	1	0	0	0
GM Matthias Bluebaum	1	0	1	0	0
GM Tuan Minh Le	1	0	0	1	0
IM Yoseph Taher	1	0	0	1	0
IM Reza Mahdavi	1	0	1	0	0
GM Javokhir Sindarov	1	0	1	0	0

Bullet Brawl is an thrilling enviornment that includes Chess.com’s high bullet specialists. It takes place weekly on Saturdays. The format is a two-hour enviornment with a 1+0 time management; the prize fund is $1,000. Like Titled Tuesday and Arena Kings, Bullet Brawl usually options high GMs, together with Hikaru Nakamura, Andrew Tang, Tuan Minh Le, and plenty of extra!

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