Dear chess fans,
the second round of S12 was played yesterday with a 5+0 Swiss Tournament. It was a record-breaking one, as no less than 36 players had participated (actually 43 including the ones who didn´t play enough games (i.e. three) to be counted). No less than 18 players were completely new (to me), and only from one I have a Hive username so far (welcome 
Hive account@mypathtofire, and all the others) - for sure not an ideal situation. On the other hand, a large number of points could be distributed, so for the ones who missed out this round (e.g. 
Hive account@samostically) it will be hard to fight their way back to the top places. How is this massive interest to be explained? Because 
Hive account@shrazi had put the announcement on Listnerds? If one needs a proof that this can have quite an impact, than here is it!
It was the day of 
Hive account@eniolw, who won undefeated with 7 out of 7 despite the strong competition and with a phenomenal performance of 2579! Second was 
Hive account@sawko with 6/7 (only defeated by Hive account@eniolw) followed by 
Hive account@franu (Tz995) and 
Hive account@jaki01 as third/fourth with each 5 out of 7 points. Also 
Hive account@rosmarly as 5th and leading the group of players with 4,5/7 had a great tournament! Congratulations to All!
Full result table: https://lichess.org/swiss/I3S788WQ
Hive account@vjap55 could finally stream the event again. Please check out his post & analysis of R2 here!
Season 12: 03 Jun to 05 Aug 2022 / Ranking after 2 rounds:
The rules you can look up in the S12 announcement post.
After 2 rounds, we see a close head-to-head race between multifold-champion Hive account@sawko and his eternal rival Hive account@eniolw whereby Hive account@eniolw has for now the upper hand thanks to the higher average performance.
See you all next week - and keep practicing!
The Norwaychess 2022 was won by Magnus Carlsen again (like the last 3 iterations), with one point ahead of Mamedyarov. What a performance and consistency!
