Hivechess Season 17 is starting this Friday!

Dear chess fans!

Finally S17 - called "x4" - has arrived! But first let´s talk a little about the past season.

The prizes from Season 16 were in the meantime sent to the players.
In total 667 Hive (currently app. 230$) have accumulated in the Hive account@badge-646464 account and were distributed among the 26 qualified participants.

Thanks a lot to all the upvoters and supporters!

Here is the snapshot of the final prizepool:

🏆 Payout table of Season 16 🏆

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Price (Hive)

Winner	Hive account@lucianosky	Pavarotty	2307	10	185	74,4
2^nd	Hive account@pamboy27	pamboy27	2163	9	170	65,1
3^rd	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	2041	10	165	55,6
4	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	2037	10	156	43,8
5	Hive account@agreste	agreste	1779	9	119	35,4
6	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	1710	10	113	35,6
7	Hive account@giuatt07	guisep73	1642	9	108	33,3
8(+1)	Hive account@rodrook	rodrook	1413	10	95	32,2
9(+1)	Hive account@b0s	Da_k1ng	1637	10	92	31,6
10(-2)	Hive account@jaki01	jaki01	2361	4	90	22,8
11	Hive account@justfavour	justfavour	1708	7	74	24
12	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	1518	10	74	28,2
13(+3)	Hive account@dhilan04	tortyllan	2064	5	63	19,1
14(-1)	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	2135	3	52	14,1
15(-1)	Hive account@schamangerbert	HerbyW	1611	4	51	15,4
16(+1)	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	1087	10	46	32,8
18	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	1689	3	37	11,3
19	Hive account@engilhramn	Engilhramn	1386	5	31	12,9
22(+5)	Hive account@darruiz	darruiz	1269	3	26	9,2
23(-2)	Hive account@giacomone	KingJames4	1635	3	25	9
24(-2)	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	1352	5	23	11,4
25	Hive account@hannes-stoffel	hannes-stoffel	1572	3	22	8,4
26(-3)	Hive account@acidtiger	acidtiger-hive	1343	4	21	9,6
27(-3)	Hive account@og-gamershub	bossgaius	1064	7	20	13,6
28(+2)	Hive account@mypathtofire	mypathtofire	1329	6	19	12
32(-1)	Hive account@artistparthoroy	artistparthoroy	973	3	11	6,3

Also 100 LEO were each sent by Hive account@anomadsoul to the lucky winners Hive account@agreste, Hive account@lighteye, Hive account@giuatt07, Hive account@b0s and myself, sponsored by Hive account@leofinance! Thanks a lot!!

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!

About Season 17

After the break and the 2 fun tournaments Season 17 will start this Friday, the 15^th Dec, 20h GMT (at the usual (winter) time)! It will go over 10 rounds and will be conducted in the very classical way, including players of any skill levels.

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 prize pool is again 65% and the Hive account@chesspricepool account will be used to accrue the rewards. It is preloaded already with 29 Hive from the two fun tournaments!

What is different this time (there needs always to ba a change, right?) is, that the prizes will be separated in groups according to rating (as always the average rating counts (i.e. the rating at the end of the first round plus from the last round played divided by two).
So there will be separate prize pools for players rated <1500, <1800, <2100 and the rest.

In other words, we de facto have 4 tournaments (therefore the season is called "x4") with 4 winners of these rating tiers:
Tournament 1: 0-1499
Tournament 2: 1500-1799
Tournament 3: 1800-2099
Tournament 4: >2099

The size of the prize pools will depend on how many players will end up in those group. E.g. if in the group of 1500-1799 are much less participants then in the group <1500, the prize pool will be accordingly smaller, because it would be than easier to get a top spot. If after the first 2 rounds I will see that e.g. in one group are much less players than in another, I might adapt the thresholds a little bit, to have more similar sizes (and prizes) of the groups.

By this we avoid running separate tournaments but have hopefully more motivation for all players to perform (and participate often)! Let´s see how this will work out!

Again I encourage any tournament or streaming report to set Hive account@chesspricepool 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/55PYWEHi

Rules

All 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 prize pool (PP). Each of the 4 rating-tiered tournament winners will get "x" Hive (at least 10), the runner-up "y" and the third "z" Hive (depending on the no. of players in each group). The rest of the PP is divided among all other players according to the number of tournament points achieved (70%) and the number of rounds played (30%). In order to qualify for a prize you have to participate in at least five of the 10 rounds!
There will be a special prize of 5 Hive for the player with the highest tournament performance in relation to his rating.
LEO prizes will be funded by Hive account@leofinance, detailes to be confirmed
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@amit.pangeni 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@ctrpch 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@emerald09551 Hive account@eenriquerivas Hive account@elcholitosanto Hive account@engilhramn Hive account@eniolw 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@heathbadger 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@maestroask 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@og-gamershub 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@ram9612 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@sawko 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@yonnathang Hive account@zacherybinx Hive account@ziabutt3836
(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)