Participants received 20 puzzles to solve in 30 minutes. They range from checkmate in 1 to checkmate in 5. The one who solved the most correct puzzles wins. In case of ties, the time it took the players to solve the puzzles will serve as tiebreakers (faster time wins).
Results based on the order of tiebreaks (time)
Sasha Konovalenko 20
Sheena Zeng 20
John Capocyan 19.5
Justin Freedlander 19.5
Arshaq Saleem 19
Tinglin Shi 19
Elijah Patterson 19
Rithwik Mathur 19
Anish Lodh 19
Kevin S Wang 18
Arvind Prasad 18
Devesh Anand 17
Elisabeth Miller 17
Vrishank Ramnath 17
Hersh Singh 17
Isaac Adams 16
Neha Mhaskar 16
Krish Sharma 16
Matthew Berner 15
Natey Ruzell 15
Gauri Menon 14
Nathan Chen 14
Arjun Palaniappan 13
Aradh Kaur 9
Anushka Saxena 9
Saanvi Adusumalli 7
Eddy Xu 7, etc.
Nakamura can solve all 20 blindfolded in 20 seconds. Genius!