Hello everyone.
Round two of Saturday Hivechess Tournament was a surprise for me. Fourth place is something that will be very hard to repeat. There was couple good games against strong opponents.
Time control was without increment. It was 4 + 0. I usually berserk so berserking to 2 + 0 seemed logical.
There is some additional trill in the game play where you dont have increment.
Zero time added per move and you have 3rd opponent in the game clock.
In some games clock was on my side and other it was against me.
Winner of the tournament was with perfect score. All wins in 13 games and twice more points than second place.
Congratulations.
This weeks tournament is 3 + 0 time mode. Faster time format and yet no increment. Here everyone can make mistake so it should be more fun that previous round. Tournament organizer is
Dont forget to join tomorrow.
Tournament link:
@sam.chess/saturday-hivechess-showdown-s2r3
Walking into the checkmate
Game against (SouthGamer).
Make a move and loose the game. White is better so why not to blunder and end the game there.
Guess the move I played.
It was Queen to c7.
Do you see checkamte?
Yes it is Queen to b5 .
Well played (SouthGamer). We played three games this round.
Game link
https://lichess.org/ADUdIHXf/black#0
Time trouble
There was two games where there was time scramble. In one I managed to win on time and in other I was not fast enough.
First game is against .
There were some blunders from both sides during the game (blunders that resulted in loss of the Queens on both sides).
It was good game. This was move 61 and we both had 3.6 seconds left on the clock.
It was tense 9 move before I run out of the time. No matter loss I enjoyed the game and that 9 move time scramble was fun.
Final position. I lost on time. In the end of the tournament I realized that I got 1 point for the game.
Good and fast moves . Still 0.4 seconds left on the clock.
Game link
https://lichess.org/Oi8JWz3C/white#0
In other game against (FCastro17) it was me who used clock to my advantage.
This was position and had only 3.6 seconds.
My position is lost and I tried to win on time.
First move was check on the e4.
After some moves and exchanges left with only 1.3 seconds and I had 33 seconds.
Here I decided to go for a check to spend more time.
Queen to h7 check was last move as my opponent run out of time.
Well played , this time I manage to use low time to get win instead of good moves.
Game link
https://lichess.org/OzZ7fhzI/white#0
No increment time modes seems fun. Another no increment round is tomorrow. Dont miss it.
Tournament link
https://lichess.org/tournament/s3fQyauf
Small addition to the post.
Two puzzles to see who is faster.
Whoever solves the puzzle gets 3 Hive.
6 Hive total - each puzzle is 3 Hive.
You can only get one reward (one puzzle per person).
At least one participation in one of the tournaments in Chess community.
Comment solution to claim the reward.
Puzzle 1
White to move. Mate in two.
Author: M. Svitec
Year Published: 2020
Puzzle 2
White to move. Mate in two.
Author: Gustav Hultberg
Year Published: 1943