Hivechess Tournament Season 19 Round 9: @lucianosky was the winner in an equal fight!

Dear chess fans,

yesterday the 9^th round of season 19 was played. For the rules please refer to the announcement post. Welcome to Hivechess, Hive account@grigorijj and welcome back, Hive account@astrolabio!

It was a 5+0 Swiss tournament over 8 rounds with 25 players!

Until the very end it was completely open who would win. It ended with a group of 5 people all with equal points (6/8): Hive account@lucianosky(Pavarotty), Hive account@fcastro177, myself, Hive account@kintokris(jonbellionfan) and Hive account@rosmarly! At the end Hive account@lucianosky(Pavarotty) was defined by Lichess as winner despite the same tiebreak with runner-up Hive account@fcastro177 and despite he had lost to him! Apparently the tournament performance counts more than the direct match. I was ranked third and thus got a (for me) rare podium seat. Congrats to All!

In this game against the winner Hive account@lucianosky, I (with black) thought I was winning with 3 connected passers against a rook. My plan was to underpromote to a knight with tempo to remove the white king from creating a mating pattern. Unfortunately I promoted to a queen automatically - and was checkmated instantly with the rook :(

Black to move

^{https://lichess.org/fVGh7rK1/black#151}
According to the engine it is a draw by the way! The white king is too near for black to win.

Result table:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/swiss/HL6JGs16

Season 19: 06 Sep to 22 Nov 2024 / Ranking after 9 rounds:

Tournament 1 (<1500)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	1488	9	106	1523,3
2	Hive account@rodrook	RDcast	1410	9	82	1525,2
3(+2)	Hive account@uniforced	uniforced	1408	7	61	1521
4(-1)	Hive account@darruiz	darruiz	1363	7	60	1401,2
5(+1)	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	1331	8	56	1270,7
6(+2)	Hive account@spartano	humbertoortega	1464	5	45	1457,7
7	Hive account@ram9612	romeo9612	1435	4	35	1493
8	Hive account@elcholitosanto	RicardoFox	1371	3	27	1547,5
9	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	1157	8	17	1141,8
10	Hive account@konquest	Kon_1	933	4	12	1254
11(+1)	Hive account@dovycola	Dovycola	1079	5	8	1097,4
12(-1)	Hive account@yonnathang	Yonnathang	1233	1	6	1549
13(+1)	Hive account@wagnertamanaha	wagnertamanaha	1240	2	6	1202
14(-1)	Hive account@geo52rey	Geo52rey	1380	1	3	1486
15(new)	Hive account@astrolabio	astrolabiochess	1037	1	1	1037

Tournament 2 (1500-1899)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	1716	9	136	1822,2
2	Hive account@justfavour	justfavour	1679	9	118	1688,2
3	Hive account@masterswatch	Masterswatch	1688	8	111	1687,8
4	Hive account@giuatt07	guisep73	1651	9	111	1632,8
5	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	1605	8	87	1606
6	Hive account@b0s	Da_k1ng	1645	7	73	1616
7(-3)	Hive account@olujay	Olu-jay	1602	8	68	1448,4
8(-1)	Hive account@justola1	just-ola	1690	4	56	1679
9	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	1644	5	26	1506,2
10	Hive account@ramonchis	ramonjr08	1773	1	11	1624
11(new)	Hive account@grigorijj	grigorijjj	1665	1	11	1495
12(-1)	Hive account@franciscomarval	lestatblack	1870	1	5	1801

Tournament 3 (1900+)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1(+1)	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	1979	9	173	1995,7
2(+1)	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	2084	9	161	1934
3(-2)	Hive account@dhilan04	tortyllan	1997	8	159	1917,4
4	Hive account@fcastro177	FCastro17	2140	6	121	2073,3
5	Hive account@lucianosky	Pavarotty	2343	5	114	2174,4
6	Hive account@yinjuolu	Yetundefemii	1911	5	70	1687
7	Hive account@kintokris	jonbellionfan	2074	3	51	2053
8	Hive account@mundocuriosidad	Tonystar111	2087	2	26	2203,5
9	Hive account@ropavejero	ropavejero	1924	1	11
10	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	2146	1	8

^{Players can switch between the tournament tiers in case their rating changes!
Hive account@spartano(humbertoortega) switched to Tier 1 and Hive account@olujay switched to Tier 2!}

In tournament 1 Hive account@uniforced could reach the Top 3 (helped by the fact that Hive account@olujay switched to tournament 2) but Hive account@darruiz is only one point behind him!
In tournament 3 the so far leader Hive account@dhilan04 was missing, so that Hive account@rosmarly is now at the top rank!

See you all next week - and keep practicing!