Hivechess Tournament Season 20 Round 3: @samostically was the winner, by a thread!

Dear chess fans,

yesterday the third round of S20 was played with the chess960 variant. For the rules please refer to the announcement post. 26 players were participating, so many players we had not since S15! Welcome to Hivechess, Hive account@katerinaramm, Hive account@seki1, Hive account@teooo and Hive account@techstyle and welcome back, Hive account@anomadsoul and Hive account@ropavejero!

This time IM Hive account@maestroask was overtaken at the last moment, so the new winner was our veteran player Hive account@samostically! With quite some gap behind were Hive account@rosmarly and myself as third and fourth. Congratulations to All! Shoutout to Hive account@sammy00 , Hive account@anomadsoul and also Hive account@lighteye who all could gain good places in the Top 10!

Result table of round 3:

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

Season 20: 31 Jan to 18 Apr 2025 / Ranking after 3 rounds:

Tournament 1 (<1500)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1(+3)	Hive account@sammy00	migmag		1436	3	36	1451
2(-1)	Hive account@rodrook	RDcast	USA	1408	3	27	1517,5
3	Hive account@darruiz	darruiz	VEN	1350	3	26	1373,5
4(-2)	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	UKR	1361	2	19	1481
5(new)	Hive account@teooo	teoooForHive	LTU		1	13
6(-1)	Hive account@sahi1	sahi1-chess	PAK	1457	1	8	1436
7(-1)	Hive account@dovycola	Dovycola		1058	2	5	1091
8(new)	Hive account@seki1	oghogho123			1	4
9(-2)	Hive account@konquest	Kon_1	NZL	992	2	4	1535,5
10(new)	Hive account@techstyle	Techstyle			1	3
11(new)	Hive account@katerinaramm	katerinaramm	GRC		1	2
12(-3)	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(+2)	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	SRB	1673	3	42	1699
2(-1)	Hive account@justfavour	justfavour	NGA	1704	3	41	1938
3(+2)	Hive account@giuatt07	guisep73		1671	3	34	1539,5
4(-2)	Hive account@justola1	just-ola	NGA	1673	3	33	1830,5
5(+1)	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	VEN	1673	2	26	1668
6(+2)	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	UKR	1607	2	23	1607
7(new)	Hive account@anomadsoul	anomadsoul			1	21
8(-4)	Hive account@olujay	Olu-jay	NGA	1487	2	21	1514,5
9	Hive account@masterswatch	Masterswatch	DEU	1673	2	21	1444
10(-3)	@bOs	Da_k1ng	NGA	1621	1	13	1755
11(-1)	Hive account@yinjuolu	Yetundefemii	NGA	1879	2	9	2064
12(-1)	Hive account@odic3o1	odic3o	VEN	1690	1	3	1466

Tournament 3 (1900+)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm		2487	3	69	2150
2(+1)	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	VEN	2000	3	62	1963,5
3(-1)	Hive account@dhilan04	tortyllan		2138	3	60	2077,5
4	Hive account@franu	Tz995	BIH	2109	3	55	2064
5	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	AUT	1986	3	55	1897,5
6(+1)	Hive account@kintokris	jonbellionfan	NGA	2190	2	38	2013
7(+3)	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	NGA	2174	2	33	1882
8(-2)	Hive account@fcastro177	FCastro17	VEN	2076	1	22	2091
9(-1)	Hive account@lucianosky	Pavarotty	NGA	2324	1	18	2061
10(-1)	Hive account@maverieux000	Keylix		2060	1	17	2167
11(new)	Hive account@ropavejero	ropavejero	VEN		1	9
12(new)	Hive account@mundocuriosidad	Tonystar111	VEN		1	8

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

If you want, please let me know your country! Many thanks!

In tournament 1 Hive account@sammy00 thanks to his good result today could make a huge jump and grab the lead from Hive account@rodrook, in no.2 Hive account@lighteye is now no.1, just 1 point ahead of Hive account@justfavour and in tournament 3 Hive account@rosmarly is now no.2!

See you all next week - and keep practicing!

The first tournament of the 2025 Freestyle Grand Slam Tour in Weissenhaus is over! The German youngster Vincent Keymer won in a nothing but spectacular fashion! He knocked out first Alireza Firouzja in the quarterfinals, then Magnus Carlsen in the semifinals and finally Fabiano Caruana in the final without losing a single game!

https://www.chess.com/news/view/keymer-wins-2025-freestyle-chess-grand-slam-weissenhaus

And all this with an accuracy of 96,4% which is phenonemal for Fischerrandom chess!
Levy Rozman ("Gothamchess" on YT) rightfully said "His understanding of these chess positions was from another planet".
Looking forward to the next Freestyle chess event this April in Paris.

Here 2 pics from the event gallery:

https://www.freestyle-chess.com/press-media/gallerie-weissenhaus-2025/