Checkmates on the Blockchain: HiveChess Arena S1R13

Chess

Intro

I'd first give a quick gist of yesterday's Season 21 Hive Chess Tournament then I'd dive into today Saturday Hive chess Arena round 13.

Season 21 Hive Chess Tournament

I patiently waited. 💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼💃🏼

Just kidding, I was definitely not patient, I was anticipating!!

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My blood was hot for Season 21 each time I opened Hive.

Well, the wait came to an end as we kicked off the first round of the tournament yesterday. I was so thrilled when I saw Hive account@stayoutoftherz post on the tournament announcement.

It was really fun having to compete with fellow members of the blockchain team.

I couldn't write a review on the tournament yesterday because my tight schedule. I'd definitely make sure to document next weeks game.

Todays Saturday's Hive Chess Arena Round 13

Honestly, today game was quite hectic. Everyone was playing at their best. Almost all the players today were highly ranked so it was difficult landing points. I was able obtain a total of 11 points and I secured the 9th place out of 18 players on the leader board.
Oh, and Hive account@justfavour , I really was anticipating being paired with you. The algorithm has postponed our rematch ⚔

Here's how the final leaderboard looked:

🥇 SouthGamer– 39 points
🥈Odnoobraz_bcm– 37 points
🥉 Tangible_ay – 29 points

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As usual, let's highlight some of the games that are quite interesting and we could learn from 👇🏼

Todays Game Highlights and Analysis

JUSTOLA VS SUMMISINEON1

I made sure not to underestimate this player like I did yesterday. I looked at his rating yesterday and ended up losing my match with him cos I was negligent. So today, I wanted to first test his ability so I didn't beserk
the first time we got paired. I accessed him as a good player but I know I could win if I slashed my time in half so I beserked the second time we got paired and I won.

Lets watch the gif:

Game Link: https://lichess.org/eH2pNyBc/black

This is the PGN file of the game:

[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R13 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/eH2pNyBc"] [Date "2025.09.27"] [White "summisineon1"] [Black "Just_ola"] [Result "0-1"] [GameId "eH2pNyBc"] [UTCDate "2025.09.27"] [UTCTime "15:00:13"] [WhiteElo "1321"] [BlackElo "1837"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+0"] [BlackRatingDiff "+1"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "300+0"] [ECO "D04"] [Opening "Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System"] [Termination "Normal"]

d4 d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nbd7 4. c4 Nb6 5. cxd5 Nbxd5 6. Nc3 Nb6 7. Qa4+ Bd7 8. Qc2 e6 9. Bd3 Nfd5 10. Nxd5 Nxd5 11. O-O Nb6 12. Ne5 Ba4 13. Qc3 a5 14. b3 Bb4 15. Qc2 Bd7 16. a3 Bd6 17. Nxd7 Qxd7 18. a4 Rc8 19. Bb5 c6 20. Bd3 Nd5 21. Ba3 Bxa3 22. Rxa3 Nb4 23. Qc4 Qd6 24. Be2 Nd5 25. Raa1 O-O 26. Qd3 Nb4 27. Qe4 f5 28. Qh4 Rf6 29. Bc4 Rh6 30. Qg5 Qxh2# 0-1

JUSTFAVOUR VS SUMMISINEON1

I was curious as always and decided to look into everyone else's games. It seemed my friend Hive account@justfavour underestimated Summisineon1 like I did and lost a match. White opened with the Queen's Pawn Game and black responded with a beserk. Black had good positioning and moved his pieces meticulously but made a blunder that cost him his queen when white moved his Knight to e7. Losing a strong piece coupling with the time constraint led to blacks defeat.

Lets watch the gif:

Game Link: https://lichess.org/CdOuMV3C/black

This is the PGN file:

[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R13 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/CdOuMV3C"] [Date "2025.09.27"] [White "summisineon1"] [Black "justfavour"] [Result "1-0"] [GameId "CdOuMV3C"] [UTCDate "2025.09.27"] [UTCTime "15:58:41"] [WhiteElo "1336"] [BlackElo "1872"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+11"] [BlackRatingDiff "-11"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "300+0"] [ECO "D00"] [Opening "Queen's Pawn Game"] [Termination "Normal"]

d4 d5 2. e3 e6 3. Nf3 h6 4. Be2 Nf6 5. O-O a6 6. c4 Nc6 7. Nc3 Bb4 8. cxd5 Nxd5 9. Nxd5 Qxd5 10. a3 Ba5 11. Qa4 O-O 12. Bc4 Qd8 13. Qb3 Bb6 14. Qd3 Na5 15. Ba2 Bd7 16. Ne5 Bb5 17. Qe4 Bxf1 18. Kxf1 Rb8 19. Bb1 f5 20. Qf3 Qd5 21. Qh5 Nc4 22. Ng6 Rf6 23. Ne7+ Kh7 24. Nxd5 exd5 25. Bxf5+ g6 26. Bxg6+ Rxg6 27. Qxd5 Nd6 28. e4 Rbg8 29. g3 Nb5 30. Be3 Rd8 31. Qxb7 Nxd4 32. Bxd4 Rxd4 33. Qxa6 Rxe4 34. Qd3 Rd4 35. Qf5 Kg7 36. Re1 Rd7 37. Qxd7+ Kf6 38. Re6+ Kg5 39. Qd5+ Kg4 40. Rxg6+ Kh3 41. Qh5# 1-0

SOUTHGAMER VS ODNOOBRAZ_BCM

I like to always learn from what the best is doing. I looked through the leaderboard and decided to pick a game he won with a strong opponent.

White berserked confidently with the Hungarian Opening but quickly ran into trouble after overextending with f5, which allowed Black to seize the initiative. White made the critical blunder on move b3.

Black, with the Symmetrical Variation, finished with a clean queen-and-rook mate on move 32.

Lets watch the gif:

Game Link: https://lichess.org/71La0NZp/black

This is the PGN file:

[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R13 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/71La0NZp"] [Date "2025.09.27"] [White "Odnoobraz_bcm"] [Black "SouthGamer"] [Result "0-1"] [GameId "71La0NZp"] [UTCDate "2025.09.27"] [UTCTime "15:25:09"] [WhiteElo "2488"] [BlackElo "2070"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-12"] [BlackRatingDiff "+13"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "300+0"] [ECO "A00"] [Opening "Hungarian Opening: Symmetrical Variation"] [Termination "Normal"]

g3 g6 2. d3 Bg7 3. c3 Nf6 4. Bg2 d6 5. e4 O-O 6. f3 Nbd7 7. Nh3 a6 8. Nf2 b5 9. O-O Bb7 10. f4 e5 11. f5 gxf5 12. exf5 Bxg2 13. Kxg2 Re8 14. g4 e4 15. dxe4 Nxe4 16. Nxe4 Rxe4 17. Nd2 Re8 18. Qf3 Ne5 19. Qg3 Qd7 20. Nf3 Nc4 21. Rf2 Qc6 22. g5 Re1 23. f6 Bf8 24. b3 Ne3+ 25. Bxe3 Rxa1 26. Bd4 Re8 27. h4 Ree1 28. Rd2 Qe4 29. Bf2 Re2 30. Rxe2 Qxe2 31. h5 Qf1+ 32. Kh2 Qh1# 0-1

Thank you all for the games, it was really fun I won't lie. And thank you Hive account@samostically for hosting this tournament.

Saturday HiveChess S1R13 Arena