Dear chess fans,
yesterday the 3rd round of season 15 was played as a 4+3 arena with 31 players. Welcome to 
Hive account@alucian and 
Hive account@olujay who joined for the first time!
It was the day of 
Hive account@pamboy who could achieve his first tournament win, and what a win it was! The gap to the runner-up, 
Hive account@eniolw was 8 points! Congratulations!
Hive account@maestroask was left with the third rank, followed by a group of 3 players with equal points: 
Hive account@dhilan04 (tortyllan), 
Hive account@emic and 
Hive account@lucianosky (Pavarotty).
In my last game against 
Hive account@schamangerbert, close to finish, he (with the Black pieces) blundered a Queen on move 16 and was hopelessly lost 2 moves later, a draw offer I declined.
In this position instead of resigning, he let run his clock for >2min., just so that the tournament closed, and resigned immediately afterwards.
https://lichess.org/exhvpTIw/white#37
I was (and am still) really pissed off, his behviour didn´t get him a point and would not have affected his ranking, he was lost anyway, but I could have ended up to 3 ranks higher.
In mutual time scramble I think it is pretty obvious that you try to flag your opponent or swindle yourself to a stalemate even in a lost posiiton, but here we both had >4 minutes on the clock. I think this is a very unsportsmanlike behavior, and I hope we don´t see this anymore in the future. Yes, according to the rules this is allowed, but not everything which is allowed should be done. Not sure what would happen, if such a behavior would be shown by one of the super GMs in the champions chess tour - I think it is even not imaginable that one of the top shots could do this and get away with it. What do you think about it?
Result table of round 3:
Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/fOB7fEay
Hive account@vjap55 again thankfully streamed his games, adding some great analysis, check it out here!
As reminder, if you add 
Hive account@chesspricepool as beneficiary to your tournament reports, I will feature them here and upvote them much higher!
Season 15: 03 Mar to 5 May 2023 / Ranking after 3 rounds:
| Rank | Hive name | Lichess name | Rating | Rounds played | Points | Performance |
|---|
| | | | | | |
| 1 | Hive account@maestroask | Odnoobraz_bcm | 2600 | 3 | 88 | 2471 |
| 2 |  Hive account@sawko | CM sawkito | 2279 | 3 | 79 | 2147,7 |
| 3 | Hive account@dhilan04 | tortyllan | 2090 | 3 | 79 | 2099,3 |
| 4 | Hive account@vjap55 | vjap55 | 2147 | 3 | 75 | 2171,7 |
| 5 |  Hive account@samostically | ZGM_Samostically | 2135 | 3 | 67 | 1954,3 |
| 6(+1) | Hive account@emic | emichessmaster | 2152 | 3 | 66 | 2055 |
| 7(-1) |  Hive account@therealflaws | Jean1301 | 1972 | 3 | 61 | 1917,7 |
| 8(+5) |  Hive account@pamboy27 | pamboy27 | 2239 | 2 | 59 | 2277,5 |
| 9 |  Hive account@agreste | agreste | 1714 | 3 | 58 | 1810 |
| 10(+4) | Hive account@eniolw | eniolw | 2367 | 2 | 57 | 2226,5 |
| 11(-3) |  Hive account@stayoutoftherz | stayoutoftherz | 2057 | 3 | 54 | 1898,3 |
| 12 |  Hive account@pravesh0 | pravesh007 | 1733 | 3 | 53 | 1766,7 |
| 13(-2) |  Hive account@rosmarly | rosmarly | 1964 | 3 | 52 | 1848,7 |
| 14(+4) | Hive account@lucianosky | Pavarotty | 2251 | 2 | 49 | 1983,5 |
| 15(+4) | Hive account@schamangerbert | HerbyW | 1717 | 2 | 44 | 1791 |
| 16(-6) |  Hive account@lighteye | lighteye | 1683 | 3 | 42 | 1818,7 |
| 17(+6) |  Hive account@gabotask | GVillalobos | 2073 | 2 | 35 | 1917 |
| 18(+4) |  Hive account@stranger27 | stranger27 | 1634 | 3 | 34 | 1643 |
| 19(-4) |  Hive account@justfavour | justfavour | 1673 | 3 | 33 | 1613 |
| 20(+4) |  Hive account@b0s | Da_k1ng | 1613 | 3 | 32 | 1424 |
| 21(-4) |  Hive account@rodrook | rodrook | 1410 | 3 | 28 | 1350,7 |
| 22(+6) |  Hive account@fiona777 | fiona777 | 1420 | 3 | 27 | 1542,3 |
| 23(-7) |  Hive account@fcastro177 | FCastro17 | 2123 | 1 | 26 | 1978 |
| 24(+1) |  Hive account@grafo07 | Grafo_07 | 1096 | 3 | 125 | 1368,3 |
| 25(-5) |  Hive account@hannes-stoffel | hannes-stoffel | 1397 | 2 | 21 | 1463,5 |
| 26(-5) |  Hive account@nikoszzz | nikoszzz | 1758 | 1 | 19 | 1432 |
| 27(+3) |  Hive account@pokerarema | ragnarokgame | 1563 | 2 | 19 | 1611,5 |
| 28(+5) |  Hive account@mypathtofire | mypathtofire | 1328 | 2 | 16 | 1509,5 |
| 29(-3) |  Hive account@tin.aung.soe | TinAungSoe | 1295 | 2 | 16 | 1472,5 |
| 30(+2) |  Hive account@pokermaria | pokermaria | 1042 | 2 | 16 | 1240,5 |
| 31(-4) |  Hive account@anomadsoul | anomadsoul | 1485 | 2 | 15 | 1613,5 |
| 32(-3) |  Hive account@awesomeintrigue | zackawesome | 1739 | 1 | 13 | 1712 |
| 33(-2) |  Hive account@vasigo | vasigo | 1169 | 3 | 13 | 1262,7 |
| 34(new) | Hive account@olujay | Olu-jay | 1559 | 1 | 11 | 1524 |
| 35(-1) |  Hive account@timix648 | timix648 | 918 | 2 | 5 | 1278 |
| 36 |  Hive account@cryptopi314 | cryptopi314 | 915 | 2 | 5 | 1036,5 |
| 37(-2) |  Hive account@nftland1989 | CHeSsdieGOst | 981 | 1 | 2 | 1119 |
| 38(new) | Hive account@alucian | alucian | 870 | 1 | 1 | 975 |
| 39(-2) |  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!
On another note, I registered for a classical OTB tournament here in Vienna, starting in May - 7 rounds Swiss. I have not played a classical tournament since ages. Will for sure be a disaster, but fun too!
