Dear Chess fans,
in the third round of S7 we were 16 players, that mystical number again (in the last 10 rounds we had 7 times this number of players - how likely is that?). The time mode was 3 minutes with a relatively high increment of 3 seconds.
It was a close fight between 
Hive account@jaki01 and 
Hive account@burnoutawesome and at the end Hive account@burnoutawesome could get one point ahead and win this tournament.
But player of the match (if we would have this title😄) was 
Hive account@rodrook who was in a winning frenzy and made it to the third rank, in the middle between players with 500+ more ELO. Congratulations to his best result in Hivechess ever!
And welcome, 
Hive account@petreius to this tournament! Always good to have new players joining!
The games of this round can be found here, in case you want to replay some of them.
Season 7 "summer": 16 July to 27 Aug 2021 / Ranking after 3 rounds:
After 3 rounds Hive account@jaki01 with a 10 point lead is still on the course to win this season. I could temporarily gain the second place (a rank where I have not been since quite a while), closely followed by 
Hive account@kreur. Hive account@burnoutawesome with his win today jumped from 0 directly to the 7th spot and also Hive account@rodrook and 
Hive account@lighteye made some nice gains in the ranking due to their good results today!
The rules you can look up in the announcement post.
See you next week and as always - keep practicing!
What do you think, who will win the FIDE World Cup 2021? Any likelihood that Magnus will NOT crush his competitors? For me it is a sure win for him.
