A Field of GMs: Naroditsky Triumphs in August Lichess Titled Arena
Daniel Naroditsky, under his well-known username ‘RebeccaHarris’, was victorious in Lichess’s “Blitz Titled Arena August ’25”. While the fields on Lichess are often less strong than on chess.com, nine of the top ten finishers were Grandmasters, with many more lower down including Eric Hansen/’chessbrahs’ in 11th.
After 56 games of 3+0 in a three hour time span, Naroditsky finished with 130 tournament points, a small cushion ahead of unidentified GM ‘GrraindTime’ in second at 123, and GMs Amin Tabatabaei and Shant Sargsyan in 3rd/4th at 117. Perhaps GrraindTime could have narrowed the gap with a higher ‘berserk’ rate – Naroditsky opted to start 70% of his games with half the time in exchange for a bonus point from any positive result, compared to GrraindTime’s 37%.
423 players participated in all. You can review the tournament here.
