Dear chess fans!
Round 3 of season 20 is played tomorrow Friday, 14th Feb 2025, at the usual time.
The current standings after the first two rounds you can find here.
Since currently in Germany the first "Grand Slam" tournameent 2025 in Freestyle chess is played (where Magnus surprisingly was defeated by Vincent Keymer in the semi finals!), it is well timed to play our first chess960 round in S20!
Mode: 4+1 (4 minutes per game, 1 sec. increment), 70 min. Chess960 arena
Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/eRNLSvlA
The prize pool contains already 161 Hive!
Rules
- All players are welcome, also newbies, you just need a free Lichess-account and join our team in Lichess here (password is "Hive")!
- Every Friday is one round.
- Time mode is varying (5+0, 3+2, 2+1,...), sometimes Swiss, sometimes maybe Chess960 (Fischer Random).
- The winner of each round gets the number of points equaling the number of players in that round, the second ranked one point less and so forth until the one on the bottom of the table who gets one point (i.e. the Lighteye-scoring). In order to be counted, at least 3 games must have been played.
- In case two players have the same number of points, the one who played less rounds is first. If that is equal too, then the average tournament performance decides.
- PAYOUT: The tournament points of the 12 rounds are summed up. 60% of all Hivechess-related post rewards go to the prize pool (PP). Each of the 3 rating-tiered tournament winners will get "x" Hive (at least 50), the runner-up "y" and the third "z" Hive (depending on the no. of players in each group). The rest of the PP is divided among all other players according to the number of tournament points achieved (50%) and the number of rounds played (50%). In order to qualify for a prize you have to participate in at least six of the 12 rounds!
- If I don´t know your Hive username, you won´t be considered for prizes, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments!
Please share this announcement among your (chess) friends and colleagues!
The more participate, the more fun! And maybe some are even interested to join Hive and it´s Chess Community?
See you all tomorrow and good luck!
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As mentioned, here a report about the exciting semifinals in Weissenhaus, were Magnus Carlson was dethroned by the German chess prodigee.
The famous "Keymer-stare"
Magnus Carlson had to accept a draw in the second game
https://www.freestyle-chess.com/news/keymer-caruana-to-battle-for-freestyle-grand-slam-title/
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