Hivechess Tournament Season 20 Round 1: @dhilan04 was the winner!

Dear chess fans,

yesterday the first round of season 20 started with a 5+2 arena. For the rules please refer to the announcement post. 21 players, with an average rating of 1639, were participating. Welcome back Hive account@maestroask and Hive account@maverieux000, and welcome Hive account@sahi1 to Hivechess!

Hive account@dhilan04 was the winner in a fairly close fight with Hive account@fcastro177 and Hive account@maestroask! Congratulations to All!

Result table of round 1:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/qJH3wefu

Season 20: 31 Jan to 18 Apr 2025 / Ranking after the first round:

Tournament 1 (<1500)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@sahi1	sahi1-chess	PAK	1457	1	8	1436
2	Hive account@sammy00	migmag		1427	1	7	1414
3	Hive account@rodrook	RDcast	USA	1386	1	7	1359
4	Hive account@darruiz	darruiz	VEN	1350	1	5	1118
5	Hive account@dovycola	Dovycola		1094	1	4	1255
6	Hive account@konquest	Kon_1		1009	1	2	1734
7	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	SRB	1177	1	1	1294

Tournament 2 (1500-1899)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@justfavour	justfavour	NGA	1694	1	15	1919
2	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	VEN	1673	1	14	1668
3	Hive account@justola1	just-ola	NGA	1712	1	13	1871
4	Hive account@olujay	Olu-jay	NGA	1522	1	13	1472
5	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	SRB	1642	1	12	1774
6	Hive account@giuatt07	guisep73		1712	1	11	1647

Tournament 3 (1900+)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@dhilan04	tortyllan		2090	1	22	2102
2	Hive account@fcastro177	FCastro17	VEN	2076	1	22	2091
3	Hive account@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm		2447	1	21	1997
4	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	VEN	1972	1	18	1859
5	Hive account@maverieux000	Keylix		2060	1	17	2167
6	Hive account@franu	Tz995	BIH	2109	1	17	2086
7	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	AUT	2009	1	15	1990
8	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	NGA	2174	1	7	1882

^{Participants of the fun tournaments got bonus points. Players can switch between the tournament tiers in case their rating changes!}

You may have noticed that I have added the countries of the players. Please correct me, in case I have made a mistake, and if you want, please let me know your country! Many thanks!

We have our first tournament leaders, Hive account@sahi1, Hive account@justfavour and Hive account@dhilan04!

See you all next week - and keep practicing!

2 rounds to go in the TATA Steel Masters 2025, one of the strongest tournaments in the world, and brandnew world champion Gukesh Dommaraju is leading with half a point in front of Praggnanandhaa and Abdusattorov.
Gukesh made 8 out 11 so far with an ELO performance of 2893!!

https://chess-results.com/tnr1101638.aspx?lan=0&art=4&fed=IND