I Finished Fifth Place👏🏼♟ : Friday Hive Chess S21 Tournament ⚔

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Intro

I am proud of myself, I played pretty well and finished 5th place with 22 points in the HiveChess Tournament yesterday.

My statistics were quite better than usual, my performance was 2085. Its not grandmaster level 😹 but you could say its an advanced player level ♟♟.

Also, players didn't seem to show up yesterday, they were probably quite busy.

I was keen on playing with my good friends and awesome players Hive account@stayoutoftherz and Hive account@justfavour . I hope you don't miss the next round.

Here's how the final leaderboard looked:

🥇 Odnoobraz_bcm– 26 points
🥈 SouthGamer- 26 points
🥉 Tangible_ay– 23 points

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Leaderboard

Today's Game Highlights and Analysis

JUST_OLA VS TANGIBLE_AY

This was one of my best games yesterday, I won against a really good player (2000+ rating).

White beserked and opened with the Scandinavian Defense: Modern Variation.

Blunder at Move 20

White made a blunder at move 20 by moving to his rook to e8. I too made the bigger blunder by taking the rook at e8 instead of capturing whites Queen at b7.

Although, I was able to recover by moving my Queen to g4 and this made Checkmate unavoidable. White resigned and I won the round.

Game Link:https://lichess.org/kw6IyTkl/black

This is the PGN file of the game:

[Event "Hivechess S21 Round 9 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/kw6IyTkl"] [Date "2025.11.21"] [White "Tangible_ay"] [Black "Just_ola"] [Result "0-1"] [GameId "kw6IyTkl"] [UTCDate "2025.11.21"] [UTCTime "21:01:52"] [WhiteElo "2154"] [BlackElo "1790"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-10"] [BlackRatingDiff "+10"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "B01"] [Opening "Scandinavian Defense: Modern Variation"] [Termination "Normal"]

e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nbd7 4. Bb5 a6 5. Bxd7+ Bxd7 6. Nf3 e6 7. dxe6 Bxe6 8. O-O Bb4 9. Qe2 O-O 10. a3 Ba5 11. b4 Bb6 12. Bb2 Qd7 13. Ne5 Qe7 14. Rfe1 Rae8 15. Qf3 Nd7 16. Nxd7 Qxd7 17. d3 Bd4 18. Qxb7 Bxc3 19. Bxc3 Bd5 20. Rxe8 Rxe8 21. Qxa6 Qg4 0-1

JUST_OLA VS LIGHTEYE

I played white and opened with the Sicilian defense.

What I could have done better...

First, my opponent(Black) might have been able to manage the situation better even if I had the upperhand by taking the knight at f6.

I won the game, yh. But a better move would have been knight to g8 which put Blacks king under a check and then move Queen to g5 would have secured a checkmate.

But instead a took a detour and won because of black running out of time, you can check the game link below to watch.

Game Link: https://lichess.org/x1B9lbrD

This is the PGN file:

[Event "Hivechess S21 Round 9 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/x1B9lbrD"] [Date "2025.11.21"] [White "Just_ola"] [Black "lighteye"] [Result "1-0"] [GameId "x1B9lbrD"] [UTCDate "2025.11.21"] [UTCTime "20:10:17"] [WhiteElo "1767"] [BlackElo "1682"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+5"] [BlackRatingDiff "-4"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "B23"] [Opening "Sicilian Defense: Closed, Chameleon Variation"] [Termination "Time forfeit"]

e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nge2 e6 4. Ng3 g6 5. d3 Bg7 6. h4 Nge7 7. Be3 b6 8. Be2 d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxd5 Qxd5 11. Bf3 Qd7 12. Bxc6 Qxc6 13. O-O Bb7 14. f3 Bxb2 15. Rb1 Bg7 16. Ne4 O-O 17. Bf4 Rfd8 18. Bg5 Rd4 19. Bf6 e5 20. c3 Rd7 21. Bxg7 Kxg7 22. Qd2 Rad8 23. Qg5 Rxd3 24. Qxe5+ f6 25. Qe7+ Kh6 26. Nxf6 R8d7 27. Qf8+ Rg7 28. Ng8+ Kh5 29. Qf6 Qxf6 30. Nxf6+ Kxh4 31. Rbd1 Rxd1 32. Rxd1 Rf7 33. Rd6 1-0

ODNOOBRAZ_BCM VS ENIOLW

I usually analyze wining games but I wanted to know how these two strong players met with a draw 🤝🏼

I analyzed the game and saw that player Eniolw actually put up a good fight.

A lot of trade-off was done but white was able to take advantage on blacks inaccuracies and was cleverly maneuvering the board.

White would have won but ran out of time which led to a draw between these two strong players ♟

Game Link: https://lichess.org/a6W1j6v3/black

This is the PGN file:

[Event "Hivechess S21 Round 9 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/a6W1j6v3"] [Date "2025.11.21"] [White "Odnoobraz_bcm"] [Black "eniolw"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [GameId "a6W1j6v3"] [UTCDate "2025.11.21"] [UTCTime "20:12:05"] [WhiteElo "2546"] [BlackElo "2440"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-2"] [BlackRatingDiff "+3"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "A45"] [Opening "Trompowsky Attack: Classical Defense"] [Termination "Time forfeit"]

d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 e6 3. e3 h6 4. Bh4 c5 5. c3 b6 6. Nd2 Bb7 7. Ngf3 Be7 8. Bd3 cxd4 9. cxd4 Nc6 10. a3 Nh5 11. Bxe7 Nxe7 12. Qe2 O-O 13. O-O d6 14. Rac1 Rc8 15. Ba6 Qd7 16. Nb1 Nf6 17. Nc3 Ned5 18. Nxd5 Nxd5 19. Bxb7 Qxb7 20. Qd3 Nf6 21. Nd2 Rc7 22. Rxc7 Qxc7 23. Nb1 Rc8 24. Nc3 Qc4 25. Qxc4 Rxc4 26. h3 a6 27. Rb1 Kf8 28. Kf1 Ke7 29. Ke2 d5 30. Kd3 Kd6 31. f3 Rc8 32. Rc1 Rc7 33. Rc2 g5 34. g4 h5 35. gxh5 Nxh5 36. Rg2 f6 37. Rg4 Rh7 38. h4 gxh4 39. Rxh4 f5 40. Kd2 Nf6 41. Rxh7 Nxh7 42. Ke2 e5 43. dxe5+ Kxe5 44. Na4 b5 45. Nc5 a5 46. Nb3 f4 47. Nxa5 Nf6 48. Nc6+ Kd6 49. Nd4 fxe3 50. Kxe3 Kc5 51. Kd3 Nh5 52. b4+ Kd6 53. Ke3 Nf6 54. Nxb5+ Kc6 55. Nd4+ Kd6 56. Kf4 Nh5+ 57. Kg4 Ng7 58. Kf4 Nh5+ 59. Kg4 Ng7 60. Nf5+ Nxf5 61. Kxf5 d4 62. Ke4 d3 63. Kxd3 Kc6 64. Kc4 Kb6 65. a4 Kc6 66. a5 Kd6 67. b5 Ke5 68. a6 Kf4 69. a7 Ke3 70. a8=Q Kf2 71. Qe4 Kf1 1/2-1/2

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

Up next is the tournament hosted by Hive account@samostically in a few hours. See you all there.