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Natso wins third Racing Kings Elite Arena

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With only two games Natso wins!

The third Racing Kings Elite Arena was played on March 20th, at 7pm UTC. During 30 minutes 9 players joined and 3 players played. Natso wins again! Goku_Evolution_Red gets second place and the third place is taken by Oleksandr_Koval.
Well that time I will show you only the games which our winners won because the first two places only won one game and the third place didn't even play a single game.

#1 - Natso

Natso had a winning position in both games he played. But in the first game he lost on time. In the second game he played strong again and won also.

https://lichess.org/NB9GluZ6

In move 5 Kristal blunders and gives Natso a +2 position. Kristal might have still drew it because +2 is not that huge too. But he plays 3 more mistakes so Natso is able to win.

#2 - Goku_Evolution_Red

Goku_Evolution_Red gets a winning position through Natso's blunder in move 9...

https://lichess.org/rClPUb09#0

...But in move 11 Goku_Evolution_Red blunders too and gives Natso a won position. Natso is able to play it out well but lost on time then.

Conclusion

There are no puzzles again like last time because only a few games got played.
I really hope next Elite Arena will be played by more players again.
I hope you enjoyed my blog post!

If you also want to play in the Elite Arenas you have to join Lichess' official Racing Kings Team and need to be rated >1800. Elite Arenas are played once a week. Also there might be Arenas for "non Elite" players soon. We will see.

Here I link you the previous Elite Arenas and blog posts: