Hivechess Tournament Season 20 Round 2: @maestroask was the winner!

Dear chess fans,

yesterday the second round of S20 was played as a 3+2 arena. For the rules please refer to the announcement post. 23 players with an average rating of 1675 were participating. Quite some players have missed the first round and showed up only for the 2^nd one!

Hive account@maestroask was the clear winner with a 100% win rate! Runner-up was Hive account@kintokris and behind him Hive account@dhilan04. Congratulations to All!

Result table of round 2:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/8cCTmhyM

Season 20: 31 Jan to 18 Apr 2025 / Ranking after the first 2 rounds:

Tournament 1 (<1500)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1(+2)	Hive account@rodrook	RDcast	USA	1408	2	19	1517,5
2(new)	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	UKR	1361	1	18	1481
3(+1)	Hive account@darruiz	darruiz	VEN	1350	2	16	1373,5
4(-2)	Hive account@sammy00	migmag		1436	2	14	1451
5(-4)	Hive account@sahi1	sahi1-chess	PAK	1457	1	8	1436
6(-1)	Hive account@dovycola	Dovycola		1058	2	5	1091
7(-1)	Hive account@konquest	Kon_1	NZL	992	2	4	1535,5
8(-1)	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	SRB	1177	1	1	1294

Tournament 2 (1500-1899)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@justfavour	justfavour	NGA	1704	2	30	1938
2(+1)	Hive account@justola1	just-ola	NGA	1673	2	27	1830,5
3(+2)	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	SRB	1673	2	22	1699
4	Hive account@olujay	Olu-jay	NGA	1487	2	21	1514,5
5(+1)	Hive account@giuatt07	guisep73		1671	2	16	1539,5
6(-4)	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	VEN	1673	1	14	1668
7(new)	@bOs	Da_k1ng	NGA	1621	1	13	1755
8(new)	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	UKR	1607	1	9	1607
9(new)	Hive account@masterswatch	Masterswatch	DEU	1673	1	6	1444
10(new)	Hive account@yinjuolu	Yetundefemii	NGA	1879	1	4	2064
11(new)	Hive account@odic3o1	odic3o	VEN	1690	1	3	1466

Tournament 3 (1900+)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1(+2)	Hive account@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm		2487	2	44	2150
2(-1)	Hive account@dhilan04	tortyllan		2138	2	43	2077,5
3(+1)	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	VEN	2000	2	38	1963,5
4(+2)	Hive account@franu	Tz995	BIH	2109	2	36	2064
5(+2)	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	AUT	1986	2	32	1897,5
6(-4)	Hive account@fcastro177	FCastro17	VEN	2076	1	22	2091
7(new)	Hive account@kintokris	jonbellionfan	NGA	2190	1	22	2013
8(new)	Hive account@lucianosky	Pavarotty	NGA	2324	1	18	2061
9(-4)	Hive account@maverieux000	Keylix		2060	1	17	2167
10(-2)	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	NGA	2174	1	7	1882

^{Participants of the fun tournaments got bonus points. Players can switch between the tournament tiers in case their rating changes!}

If you want, please let me know your country! Many thanks!

In tournament 1 Hive account@rodrook took the lead, in no.2 Hive account@justfavour could overtake Hive account@justola1 and in no3. Hive account@maestroask is now in front of Hive account@dhilan04!

See you all next week - and keep practicing!

What a surprise! After 5 of 9 rounds in the round robin stage, both Magnus Carlsen and world champion Gukesh are in the danger zone of getting eliminated from the 2025 Freestyle Grand Slam Tour tournament in Weissenhaus, because only the top 8 out of the 10 players move on to the knock out stage! Will they make it? What do you think?

https://lichess.org/broadcast/freestyle-chess-grand-slam-tour-2025-weissenhaus--round-robin/round-5/Z7pIjgdd#players

Later today the remaining rounds will be played.

And on 20h GMT today the first Chess960 tournament in 2025 on Hive kicks off! See the post from Hive account@sammy00!
Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/OBmRV9Qg