Hivechess Season 16 "Untitled" starting this Friday!

Dear chess fans!

Finally the long awaited S16 has arrived! But first let´s talk a little about the past season.

The prices from Season 15 were in the meantime sent to the players.
In total 688 Hive (currently app. 217$) have accumulated in the Hive account@chesspricepool account and were distributed among the 20 qualified participants.

Thanks a lot to all the Upvoters and Supporters!

Here is the snapshot of the final prizepool:

🏆 Payout table of Season 15 🏆

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Price (Hive)
Winner	Hive account@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm	2623	10	267	61,5
2nd	Hive account@sawko	CM sawkito	2264	10	248	54,4
3rd	Hive account@eniolw	eniolw	2354	9	214	40,8
4	Hive account@dhilan04	tortyllan	2001	9	204	29,7
5	Hive account@vjap55	vjap55	2129	10	200	29,3
6	Hive account@pamboy27	pamboy27	2212	9	191	28,3
7	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	2038	9	170	26
8	Hive account@emic	emichessmaster	2075	8	166	25,6
9	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	1948	9	158	24,8
10	Hive account@agreste	agreste	1758	10	153	24,2
11	Hive account@schamangerbert	HerbyW	1715	7	123	21
12	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	1689	10	120	20,7
13	Hive account@b0s	Da_k1ng	1699	9	115	20,1
14	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	2156	4	98	18,3
15	Hive account@therealflaws	Jean1301	1890	6	98	18,3
16	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	1671	9	98	18,3
17	Hive account@rodrook	rodrook	1449	9	90	17,5
18	Hive account@hannes-stoffel	hannes-stoffel	1506	9	90	17,5
19	Hive account@mundocuriosidad	Tonystar111	1980	4	81	16,5
20	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	1334	9	76	16
22	Hive account@gabotask	GVillalobos	2084	4	69	15,2
23	Hive account@nikoszzz	nikoszzz	1829	4	68	15,1
26	Hive account@pokerarema	ragnarokgame	1521	7	63	14,6
28	Hive account@pokermaria	pokermaria	1113	8	43	12,4
29	Hive account@olujay	Olu-jay	1604	4	41	12,2
30	Hive account@grafo07	Grafo_07	1137	5	41	12,2
31	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	1161	9	41	12,2
32	Hive account@justfavour	justfavour	1673	4	39	12
34	Hive account@engilhramn	engilhramn	1267	6	35	21,5
35	Hive account@tin.aung.soe	TinAungSoe	1314	6	32	11,2
36	Hive account@mypathtofire	mypathtofire	1289	7	30	11
40	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	1466	4	18	9,7

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The Hivechess Hall of Fame

is located here as a post collection (and includes ALL chess tournaments on Hive):
@badge-646464/the-hivechess-hall-of-fame
Select "View as post" in order to see it in a better way!

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About Season 16

After the Lichess Team Battles and a break Season 16 will start this Friday 18^rd Aug, 19h GMT (at the usual time)! It will go over 10 rounds and will be conducted in the very classical way, apart from the fact, that it is an untitled tournament. So no titled players allowed (Hive account@eniolw, Hive account@sawko, Hive account@maestroask). Why? Because frankly I found it very disappointing, that none of the strongest players in our team ever showed up to represent the team in the Lichess Team Battles, NOT A SINGLE TIME, despite I had emphasized numerous times how beneficial that would be for our team. So in this season other strong players have a great opportunity to become champion. Titled players can play along out of competition, but their results won´t be counted.

As like handled last time, if I don´t know the Hive user name belonging to your lichess name (let me know in the comments here), you can play but your result won´t be counted!

The percentage of post rewards feeding the price pool is 65% and the Hive account@badge-646464 account will be used to accrue the rewards. It is preloaded already with >120 Hive from the Lichess Team Liga posts and the fun tournament!

Again I encourage any tournament or streaming report to set Hive account@badge-646464 as 5 or 10% beneficiary, because it is the tournament who made the report possible in first place, right?

Round 1

Time Mode: 5+0 (5 minutes per game, no increment), 70 min. arena

Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/HZyqv5FP

Rules

• All (untitled) players are welcome, also newbies, you just need a free Lichess-account and join our team in Lichess here (password is "Hive")!
• Every Friday is one round.
• Time mode is varying (5+0, 3+2, 2+1,...), sometimes Swiss, sometimes maybe Chess960 (Fischer Random).
• The winner of each round gets the number of points equaling the number of players in that round, the second ranked one point less and so forth until the one on the bottom of the table who gets one point (i.e. the Lighteye-scoring). In order to be counted, at least 3 games must have been played.
• In case two players have the same number of points, the one who played less rounds is first. If that is equal too, then the average tournament performance decides.
• PAYOUT: The tournament points of the 10 rounds are summed up. 65% of all Hivechess-related post rewards go to the price pool (PP). The tournament winner will get 25 Hive, the runner-up 20 and the third 10 Hive bonus. The rest of the PP is divided among all players who have participated at least three times according to the number of tournament points achieved (60%) and the number of rounds played (40%).
• There will be a special price of 10 Hive for the highest performance in relation to the own rating (counted by averaging the rating after the first and the last round, if at least 6 rounds are played).
• Five randomly selected players that participate in at least 8 of the 10 rounds will get rewarded with 100 LEO each, sponsored by Hive account@leofinance (thanks, Hive account@anomadsoul!).
• If I don´t know your Hive username, you won´t be considered for prices, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments! Community or badge accounts can participate but are not qualified for prices! Only individuals can get prices.

Please share this announcement among your (chess) friends and colleagues!
The more participate, the more fun! And maybe some are even interested to join Hive and it´s Chess Community?

See you all on Friday and good luck!

! [Mention List]
Potentially of interest to:
Hive account@aakrist Hive account@abimbola753 Hive account@acidtiger Hive account@agreste Hive account@aiuna Hive account@alucian Hive account@artsbreezy01 Hive account@ajumaa Hive account@alberto0607 Hive account@alexmag1988 Hive account@almightymelon Hive account@alpha Hive account@ambarvegas Hive account@anadello Hive account@andzhi Hive account@anli Hive account@anomadsoul Hive account@apy Hive account@arsenal49 Hive account@artistparthoroy Hive account@astrolabio Hive account@awesomeintrigue Hive account@b0s Hive account@behiver Hive account@beyondhorizonmm Hive account@bitsignal Hive account@burnoutawesome Hive account@camiloferrua Hive account@cerati Hive account@chessbrotherspro Hive account@chesthetica Hive account@clixmoney Hive account@cryptogee Hive account@cryptoniusraptor Hive account@cryptoph0823 Hive account@cryptopi314 Hive account@dhilan04 Hive account@darruiz Hive account@diegofitness92 Hive account@digitalis Hive account@ebingo Hive account@eliaschess333 Hive account@elprofe62 Hive account@emeka4 Hive account@eenriquerivas Hive account@elcholitosanto Hive account@engilhramn Hive account@evgsk Hive account@fcastro177 Hive account@fiona777 Hive account@flaws Hive account@foxconnmars Hive account@franciscomarval Hive account@franu Hive account@gabotask Hive account@giacomone Hive account@gingerbyna Hive account@grafo07 Hive account@hannes-stoffel Hive account@heimindanger Hive account@herz-ass Hive account@hierro21 Hive account@hirohurl Hive account@hivetrader Hive account@iamchessguy Hive account@iammanythings1 Hive account@ibizaki Hive account@iceblue Hive account@iobates Hive account@ironshield Hive account@jaki01 Hive account@jesusmgl1995 Hive account@jesustiano Hive account@jkms Hive account@johannfrare Hive account@josesmoke Hive account@juanmi96 Hive account@justfavour Hive account@kaungsett8388 Hive account@kintokris Hive account@kreur Hive account@levitant Hive account@lighteye Hive account@lofone Hive account@lucianosky Hive account@maciejficek Hive account@marcusantoniu26 Hive account@mario89 Hive account@masterswatch Hive account@maverieux000 Hive account@mdasein Hive account@meedo Hive account@memess Hive account@mrsarri Hive account@mstafford Hive account@mundharmonika Hive account@mundocuriosidad Hive account@mypathtofire Hive account@nftland1989 Hive account@nikoszzz Hive account@oadissin Hive account@officialrosh1 Hive account@olujay Hive account@omonomo Hive account@orlanzavala Hive account@oshiokhenhoya Hive account@pamboy27 Hive account@parung76 Hive account@perpz Hive account@petreius Hive account@philipp87 Hive account@pokerarema Hive account@pokermaria Hive account@pravesh0 Hive account@primersion Hive account@ptmaker Hive account@rafaelaquino Hive account@rafzat Hive account@razzor Hive account@renerondon Hive account@rexplanet Hive account@rheda Hive account@rodrook Hive account@ropavejero Hive account@rosmarly Hive account@salomijale Hive account@samostically Hive account@sanjamkapoors Hive account@schamangerbert Hive account@schnitte Hive account@soluce07 Hive account@solymi Hive account@spacetoon Hive account@steamloled Hive account@steemychicken1 Hive account@stranger27 Hive account@syndmitrij Hive account@the01crow Hive account@thedoc07 Hive account@therealflaws Hive account@timix648 Hive account@timofey Hive account@tin.aung.soe Hive account@tony1294 Hive account@tungphong Hive account@uliseshb Hive account@vaipraonde Hive account@vasigo Hive account@victorbch2 Hive account@vjap55 Hive account@volkiceper Hive account@walner Hive account@wegflexor Hive account@xoflox Hive account@yazp Hive account@zacherybinx Hive account@ziabutt3836
(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)