Hivechess Tournament Round 3: @eniolw was the winner in a dramatic finish!

Dear Chess fans,

the third round of Season 8 was a 5+0 in Swiss mode with 22 players - new record! And also the average tournament rating was an all-time high: 1956! No less than 14 players with 2000+ rating - this is pretty insane!
Hive account@samostically was streaming again: Check out his video here! And also Hive account@vjap55 did stream (link), but due to a technical problem it was interrupted.

This time Hive account@eniolw could win the first place, with 6/7 and a phenomenal performance of 2615! Congratulations! He lost only one point to Hive account@burnoutawesome who was actually leading the tournament in the first rounds. Second was Hive account@tungphong (blackswan21) with 5,5/7 followed by Hive account@burnoutawesome and Hive account@pamboy27 with both 5/7.

In the last decisive round Hive account@eniolw faced Hive account@sawko who had the white pieces and, with less time on the clock played here Bxb5??

After exchanging Rook against Bishop on both sides instead of having an endgame with opposite colored Bishops, Hive account@eniolw had this check:

After this Hive account@sawko immediately resigned. The checkmate on h4 is only avoidable with giving the Queen. What a turn!

Here is the end result:

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 3 rounds:

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	Hive account@sawko	CM sawkito	2465	3	10	10	5	25
2	Hive account@tungphong	blackswan21	2476	3	9	5	9	23
3 (+3)	Hive account@eniolw	eniolw	2443	2	8		10	18
4 (+1)	Hive account@jaki01	jaki01	2396	3	4	9	4	17
5 (-1)	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	2233	3	7	7	3	17
6 (-3)	Hive account@kreur	Kreur	2125	3	6	8	0	14
7	Hive account@pamboy27	pamboy27	2144	2		6	7	13
8 (+2)	Hive account@burnoutawesome	burnoutawesomehive	2266	3	0	4	8	12
9	Hive account@kintokris	jonbellionfan	2097	3	3	3	2	8
10 (-2)	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	2059	3	5	1	1	7
11 (+11)	Hive account@vjap55	vjap55	2097	2		0	6	6
12	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	1756	2	0	2		2
13 (-2)	Hive account@pereu4ivatel	pereu4uwatch	2071	3	2	0	0	2
14 (-1)	Hive account@schamangerbert	HerbyW	1774	2	1		0	1
15 (-1)	Hive account@rodrook	rodrook	1488	3	0	0	0	0
16 (-1)	?	Blacknight186	2002	1	0			0
17 (-1)	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	1734	3	0	0	0	0
18 (-1)	Hive account@maciejficek	XM9000	1567	3	0	0	0	0
19 (-1)	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	1508	1	0			0
20 (-1)	Hive account@zacherybinx	sirtetris	2019	1	0			0
21 (-1)	Hive account@manncpt	Toful	1245	1	0			0
22 (-1)	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	1000	3	0	0	0	0
23	Hive account@agreste	agreste	1692	2		0	0	0
24	Hive account@ebingo	ebingo	1502	2		0	0	0
25	@bOs	Da_k1ng	1154	2		0	0	0
26	?	Mr_Mendel	2290	1		0		0
27 (new)	Hive account@maverieux000	Keylix	2128	1			0	0
28 (new)	?	emichessmaster	2124	1			0	0

The rules you can look up in the announcement post.

Hive account@tungphong (blackswan21) is only 2 points behind Hive account@sawko now and also Hive account@eniolw could improve himself today in the ranking and is now third.

See you alle next week!