GM Homayoon Toufighi wins Blitz Shield Arena

thisismyrealname8 Apr 2022238 viewsEnglish (US)

GM Homayoon takes the Shield for April.

Grand Masters are awesome. You can't deny it.

Aprils Shield was taken by GM Homayoon Toufighi

Homayoon won the tournament with a win rate of 86% and a berserk rate of 82% and an impressive performance of 2683. He was 55 points in front of second place.

4550+ users joined the tournament to have a chance in taking the Shield but Homayoon wouldn't allow it!

Lets look at a game between GM Homayoon Toufighi and second place IM Nikoloz Petriashvili:

https://lichess.org/jYIr6GBZ/white

Toufighi had the advantage the whole time. In the end Petriashvili resigned

The next Blitz Shield is on May 5, 2022.

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