Dear Chess fans,
the second round of Season 8 was a 4+1 Blitz arena with 20 players again! This time the average rating (1927) was even higher than last time! We could welcome a record-breaking number of 5 completely new players: 
Hive account@pamboy27, 
Hive account@agreste, 
Hive account@ebingo, 
Hive account@b0s (Da_k1ng) and Mr_Mendel (no Hive username), some came over from the "Liga CB" run by 
Hive account@chessbrotherspro. And 
Hive account@vjap55 finally showed up again! In fact he was even streaming the tournament! Please check out his stream here!
And also 
Hive account@samostically streamed the event here on 3speak!
Hive account@sawko could again win this round, with quite a gap to the runner up, 
Hive account@jaki01 who was in better form today than last time. Closely behind him, a group of 3 had the same points: 
Hive account@kreur, Hive account@samostically and Hive account@pamboy27. Congrats to All! 
Hive account@tungphong (blackswan21), the current leader of the Liga CB, ended "only" on the sixth spot.
I could gain only the 10th rank, my worst result ever in Hivechess, but we never had such a set of strong players, so I guess I have to get used to these results. And blundering a queen like in my game against 
Hive account@lighteye should also be avoided next time.
The games of this round can be found here, in case you want to replay some of them.
Season 8: 17 Sep to 15 Oct 2021 / Ranking after second round:
The rules you can look up in the announcement post.
No big changes on the top of the rankings, Hive account@sawko could extend his lead, Hive account@kreur and Hive account@jaki01 could improve their positions a little bit and Hive account@pamboy27 with his good first result jumped immediately to the 7th spot! 3 more rounds to go in this season, so all is still possible.
See you alle next week!
