Nakamura Continues Unrivalled Bullet Brawl Dominance, Coasts To 65th Title

GM Hikaru Nakamura notched his 65th career Bullet Brawl title and 16th of 2026 on Saturday after finishing 23 points clear of the field, despite taking his "foot off the gas" at the end of the arena. Nakamura scored 51/65 and posted a score of 17...

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From the Files

In the Trompowsky Attack, the Lichess archive holds 6.0M club games (1600–2000) that reach this position.

The top reply e6 is chosen 29% of the time and scores 48% for Black.

The Club Ledger · No. 4

A game without a blunder is the exception.

For the typical player in the corpus, 20.4% of their games contain no blunder at all, about one in five, with the middle half of players between 16.2% and 25.1%. Measured across 466,424 analysed games from 247 players.

The figure is the median PLAYER's rate, not the corpus average: one prolific account holding a sixth of the games would otherwise be reported as though it were everybody. Playing a clean game is not the standard an amateur is failing to meet; it happens about one game in five.

Across 466,424 analysed games from 247 players.

The Club Ledger runs again tomorrow.