Dear chess fans,
yesterday in the second round of season 15 we were 29 players. It was a fast 4+0 9 round Swiss tournament with an average rating of 1678 and lots of time scrambles! Welcome to 
Hive account@pokermaria and 
Hive account@cryptopi314 who joined for the first time!
Hive account@maestroask won again, but this time it was very close. 
Hive account@pamboy who was skipping the last season apparently had used his timeout very well and came back stronger than ever. He ended up with the same score, 8/9 points but the tie break decided in favor of Hive account@maestroask. The third rank went to 
Hive account@eniolw with 6,5/9 points and behind him there was a group of 4 players, all with 6 points: 
Hive account@sawko, 
Hive account@vjap55, 
Hive account@dhilan04 (tortyllan) and my arch enemy 
Hive account@schamangerbert (HerbyW) who painfully defeated me in the last round! Congratulations to All!
Result table of round 2:
Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/swiss/eLiBcHKt
Hive account@vjap55 again streamed his games, check it out here!
Season 15: 03 Mar to 5 May 2023 / Ranking after two rounds:
| Rank | Hive name | Lichess name | Rating | Rounds played | Points | Performance |
|---|
| | | | | | |
| 1 | Hive account@maestroask | Odnoobraz_bcm | 2613 | 2 | 59 | 2444 |
| 2 | Hive account@sawko | CM sawkito | 2356 | 2 | 55 | 2244,5 |
| 3(+1) | Hive account@dhilan04 | tortyllan | 2041 | 2 | 51 | 2043 |
| 4(+2) | Hive account@vjap55 | vjap55 | 2110 | 2 | 50 | 2243,5 |
| 5(-2) |  Hive account@samostically | ZGM_Samostically | 2163 | 2 | 49 | 1978 |
| 6(+5) |  Hive account@therealflaws | Jean1301 | 1902 | 2 | 42 | 1838,5 |
| 7 |  Hive account@emic | emichessmaster | 2138 | 2 | 39 | 2068 |
| 8(+2) |  Hive account@stayoutoftherz | stayoutoftherz | 2032 | 2 | 38 | 1941,5 |
| 9 |  Hive account@agreste | agreste | 1711 | 2 | 35 | 1759,5 |
| 10(+5) |  Hive account@lighteye | lighteye | 1683 | 2 | 34 | 1863,5 |
| 11(+8) |  Hive account@rosmarly | rosmarly | 1978 | 2 | 32 | 1861 |
| 12(+4) |  Hive account@pravesh0 | pravesh007 | 1741 | 2 | 31 | 1746 |
| 13(new) |  Hive account@pamboy27 | pamboy27 | 2178 | 1 | 28 | 2334 |
| 14(new) | Hive account@eniolw | eniolw | 2370 | 1 | 27 | 2234 |
| 15(+8) |  Hive account@justfavour | justfavour | 1686 | 2 | 27 | 1701 |
| 16(-11) |  Hive account@fcastro177 | FCastro17 | 2123 | 1 | 26 | 1978 |
| 17(-3) |  Hive account@rodrook | rodrook | 1361 | 2 | 26 | 1464,5 |
| 18(-10) |  Hive account@lucianosky | Pavarotty | 2258 | 1 | 23 | 1938 |
| 19(new) | Hive account@schamangerbert | HerbyW | 1696 | 1 | 23 | 1822 |
| 20(+2) |  Hive account@hannes-stoffel | hannes-stoffel | 1397 | 2 | 21 | 1463,5 |
| 21(-9) |  Hive account@nikoszzz | nikoszzz | 1758 | 1 | 19 | 1432 |
| 22(+4) |  Hive account@stranger27 | stranger27 | 1573 | 2 | 19 | 1558,5 |
| 23(-10) |  Hive account@gabotask | GVillalobos | 2078 | 1 | 18 | 1998 |
| 24(-7) |  Hive account@b0s | Da_k1ng | 1584 | 2 | 18 | 1457 |
| 25(-5) |  Hive account@grafo07 | Grafo_07 | 1092 | 2 | 18 | 1385 |
| 26(-1) |  Hive account@tin.aung.soe | TinAungSoe | 1295 | 2 | 16 | 1472,5 |
| 27(-3) |  Hive account@anomadsoul | anomadsoul | 1485 | 2 | 15 | 1613,5 |
| 28(-1) |  Hive account@fiona777 | fiona777 | 1410 | 2 | 15 | 1506,5 |
| 29(-11) |  Hive account@awesomeintrigue | zackawesome | 1739 | 1 | 13 | 1712 |
| 30(-9) |  Hive account@pokerarema | ragnarokgame | 1556 | 1 | 10 | 1408 |
| 31(-3) |  Hive account@vasigo | vasigo | 1188 | 2 | 8 | 1291,5 |
| 32(new) | Hive account@pokermaria | pokermaria | 1048 | 1 | 6 | 1175 |
| 33(new) |  Hive account@mypathtofire | mypathtofire | 1281 | 1 | 3 | 1355 |
| 34(-5) |  Hive account@timix648 | timix648 | 968 | 1 | 2 | 1372 |
| 35(new) |  Hive account@nftland1989 | CHeSsdieGOst | 981 | 1 | 2 | 1119 |
| 36(new) | Hive account@cryptopi314 | cryptopi314 | 762 | 1 | 1 | 999 |
| 37(-7) |  Hive account@solymi | solymi-Hive | 962 | 1 | 1 | 858 |
The rules you can look up in the S15 announcement post.
See you all next week - and keep practicing!
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