Hivechess Tournament S20 Round 9: @maestroask won in a lucky finish

Dear chess fans,

yesterday the 9^th round of S20 was played! For the rules please refer to the announcement post. It was a 5+1 Chess960 / Fischerrandom arena with 26 players. Welcome to Hivechess, Hive account@anli!

What appears to be another easy victory for our IM serial winner was in fact not, at a closer look. This time - believe it or not - for the most time I was leading the tournament and only in the last 10 min. or so I was overtaken by the usual winner and the runner-up Hive account@kintokris. I am still happy with the third place, given the much tougher pairing I had and a performance of 2021 in chess960 is I think a record for me😄! Ranks 4 and 5 went to Hive account@maverieux000 (Keylix) and Hive account@rosmarly. Like in the previous round, the ranks 2 to 5 were only separated by 2 points, so again an intensely combated round! Congratulations to All!

Result table of round 9:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/5y42pWHc

Season 20: 31 Jan to 25 Apr 2025 / Ranking after 9 (of 12) rounds:

Tournament 1 (<1500)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	BIH	1417	9	103	1464,2
2(+1)	Hive account@rodrook	RDcast	USA	1353	9	66	1411,2
3(-1)	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	UKR	1420	8	63	1475,8
4	Hive account@darruiz	darruiz	VEN	1467	8	47	1474,8
5(+1)	Hive account@uniforced	uniforced	DEU	1425	3	29	1679,5
6(+2)	Hive account@teooo	teoooForHive	LTU		2	22
7(-2)	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	SRB	1291	6	17	1361
8(+7)	Hive account@roswelborges	Roswel		1292	2	16	1236
9(-2)	Hive account@sahi1	sahi1-chess	PAK	1263	4	14	1314,7
10(-1)	Hive account@seki1	oghogho123		961	2	9	1476
11(-1)	Hive account@konquest	Kon_1	NZL	1066	3	8	1432,3
12(-1)	Hive account@dovycola	Dovycola		1016	3	6	1074,3
13(-1)	Hive account@yonnathang	Yonnathang	VEN	1178	1	5	1477
14(new)	Hive account@anli	andli19			1	5
15(-1)	Hive account@katerinaramm	katerinaramm	GRC	880	3	4	1036
16(-1)	Hive account@techstyle	Techstyle			1	3
17(-1)	Hive account@elcholitosanto	RicardoFox	PER		1	1

Tournament 2 (1500-1899)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1(+1)	Hive account@justfavour	justfavour	NGA	1732	9	137	1802,3
2(-1)	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	SRB	1729	9	129	1833
3	Hive account@giuatt07	guisep73		1684	9	121	1598
4	Hive account@justola1	just-ola	NGA	1679	9	111	1712
5(+1)	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	UKR	1655	8	99	1726,2
6(-1)	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	VEN	1532	7	98	1502,3
7	Hive account@masterswatch	Masterswatch	GER	1709	7	94	1696
8	Hive account@odic3o1	odic3o	VEN	1705	5	48	1652,3
9	Hive account@jay12y	Jay12y		1755	3	31	1787
10	Hive account@anomadsoul	anomadsoul			1	21
11	Hive account@olujay	Olu-jay	NGA	1487	2	21	1514,5
12	Hive account@grigorijj	grigorijjj	POL	1741	2	19	1722
13	@bOs	Da_k1ng	NGA	1606	2	17	1567
14	Hive account@johannfrare	johannfrare	VEN	1636	2	15	1570
15	Hive account@schamangerbert	HerbyW	GER		1	10
16	Hive account@yinjuolu	Yetundefemii	NGA	1879	2	9	2064

Tournament 3 (1900+)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm		2512	9	221	2298,2
2(+1)	Hive account@franu	Tz995	BIH	2118	9	179	2064,8
3(+1)	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	AUT	2073	9	179	1989,7
4(+1)	Hive account@kintokris	jonbellionfan	NGA	2227	8	175	2112,2
5(+1)	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	VEN	2004	9	170	1945,8
6(-4)	Hive account@dhilan04	tortyllan		2073	8	167	2030,3
7(+1)	Hive account@fcastro177	FCastro17	VEN	2062	7	124	2005,8
8(-1)	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	NGA	2115	8	123	1937
9	Hive account@maverieux000	Keylix		2007	5	100	2038,3
10	Hive account@kreur	Kreur	CZE	2165	2	31	2027
11	Hive account@zacherybinx	sirtetris	USA	2045	1	28	1977
12	Hive account@mundocuriosidad	Tonystar111	VEN		2	22
13	Hive account@lucianosky	Pavarotty	NGA	2324	1	18	2061
14	Hive account@ropavejero	ropavejero	VEN		1	9

^{Players can switch between the tournament tiers in case their rating changes!}

This time a lot changed in the top positions! In tournament 1 Hive account@rodrook regained rank 2, in tournament 2 Hive account@justfavour - thanks to his excellent place 6 yesterday - overtook Hive account@lighteye and is now leading, and in tournament 3 Hive account@dhilan04 missed out. So he lost 4 ranks and fell back to the 6^th rank. New runner-up is Hive account@franu, but I am very close with the same number of points. Also Hive account@kintokris is only 5 points behind and has still good chances to reach a place on the podium.
Top gainer in R9 was Hive account@roswelborges who managed to jump up 7 places and is now 8^th! Well done!

Three rounds to go!

See you next week - and keep practicing!