Dear chess fans,
yesterday the 7th round of S16 "Untitled" was played. It was a 3+1 Swiss tournament over 9 rounds with 20 players participating. Welcome
Hive account@heathbadger to Hivechess!
This time we had a new winner!
Hive account@rosmarly was superior to the permanent winner
Hive account@lucianosky (Pavarotty) by a hair's breadth. Both had impressive 8/9 points, the Tiebreak decided in favor of
Hive account@rosmarly. Third was
Hive account@giuatt07 with his best result so far, followed by
Hive account@dhilan04 as fourth! Congrats to All!
Result table of round 7:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/swiss/ZxnaoPOc
Season 16: 18 Aug to 20 Oct 2023 / Ranking after 7 rounds:
| Rank | Hive name | Lichess name | Rating | Rounds played | Points | Performance |
| | | | | | |
| 1(+1) | Hive account@lucianosky | Pavarotty | 2316 | 7 | 132 | 2252,2 |
| 2(+1) | Hive account@rosmarly | rosmarly | 2020 | 7 | 118 | 1947,5 |
| 3(-2) | Hive account@pamboy27 | pamboy27 | 2248 | 6 | 117 | 2145,6 |
| 4 | Hive account@stayoutoftherz | stayoutoftherz | 2048 | 7 | 113 | 1920,7 |
| 5(+1) | Hive account@agreste | agreste | 1784 | 7 | 92 | 1705,2 |
| 6(-1) | Hive account@jaki01 | jaki01 | 2361 | 4 | 90 | 2201,5 |
| 7(+3) | Hive account@giuatt07 | guisep73 | 1644 | 6 | 77 | 1783,4 |
| 8 | Hive account@lighteye | lighteye | 1693 | 7 | 77 | 1629,2 |
| 9(-2) | Hive account@b0s | Da_k1ng | 1682 | 7 | 75 | 1626 |
| 10(-1) | Hive account@rodrook | rodrook | 1405 | 7 | 72 | 1584 |
| 11 | Hive account@samostically | ZGM_Samostically | 2135 | 3 | 52 | 1920,7 |
| 12 | Hive account@mundocuriosidad | Tonystar111 | 2104 | 2 | 45 | 2078 |
| 13(+2) | Hive account@sammy00 | migmag | 1481 | 7 | 44 | 1441,8 |
| 14(-1) | Hive account@schamangerbert | HerbyW | 1619 | 3 | 39 | 1626 |
| 15(-1) | Hive account@stranger27 | stranger27 | 1689 | 3 | 37 | 1608 |
| 16(+1) | Hive account@vasigo | vasigo | 1222 | 7 | 37 | 1318 |
| 17(-2) | Hive account@justfavour | justfavour | 1751 | 4 | 36 | 1510 |
| 18(+1) | Hive account@engilhramn | Engilhramn | 1386 | 5 | 31 | 1310,3 |
| 19(+6) | Hive account@dhilan04 | tortyllan | 1995 | 3 | 29 | 1824,7 |
| 20(-2) | Hive account@olujay | Olu-jay | 1603 | 2 | 27 | 1792,5 |
| 21(-1) | Hive account@acidtiger | acidtiger-hive | 1343 | 4 | 21 | 1344,3 |
| 22(-1) | Hive account@fiona777 | fiona777 | 1352 | 4 | 19 | 1341 |
| 23(+7) | Hive account@hannes-stoffel | hannes-stoffel | 1572 | 2 | 18 | 1539,5 |
| 24(-2) | Hive account@mister-omortson | mister-omortson | 1592 | 2 | 17 | 1772 |
| 25(+6) | Hive account@giacomone | KingJames4 | 1635 | 2 | 17 | 1647,5 |
| 26(-3) | Hive account@tony1294 | tony1294 | 2203 | 1 | 16 | 2071 |
| 27(-1) | Hive account@og-gamershub | bossgaius | 1093 | 4 | 16 | 1217,5 |
| 28(-4) | Hive account@pravesh0 | pravesh007 | 1707 | 1 | 15 | 1886 |
| 29(-2) | Hive account@artistparthoroy | artistparthoroy | 973 | 3 | 11 | 1233,5 |
| 30(-2) | Hive account@vjap55 | vjap55 | | 0 | 10 |
| 31(new) | Hive account@heathbadger | Heathbadger | 1512 | 1 | 8 | 1760 |
| 32(-3) | Hive account@pokermaria | pokermaria | 1279 | 1 | 7 | 1345 |
| 33(+4) | Hive account@solymi | solymi_hive | 666 | 2 | 6 | 1100,5 |
| 34(-2) | Hive account@mypathtofire | mypathtofire | 12100 | 3 | 5 | 1206,5 |
| 35(-2) | Hive account@yonnathang | Yonnathang | 1047 | 1 | 3 | 1382 |
| 36(-2) | Hive account@grafo07 | Grafo_07 | 1036 | 1 | 3 | 1290 |
| 37(-2) | Hive account@darruiz | darruiz | 1223 | 1 | 3 | 1189 |
| 38(-2) | Hive account@alberto0607 | alberto_0607 | | 1 | 3 |
| 39(-1) | Hive account@vaipraonde | vaipraonde | 824 | 1 | 2 | 1116 |
Several players had started the season already with 5, 10 or 15 bonus points, dependent how they did in the Lichess Team Battles, read more about it here!
For the rules please refer to the announcement post.
Due to the absence of
Hive account@pamboy27 in round 7
Hive account@lucianosky is now the new leader and
Hive account@rosmarly is second!
See you next week - and keep practicing!
