Hivechess Tournament Season 21 Round 11: The usual winner, @southgamer is back and some diving chess!

Dear chess fans,

earlier today the penultimate round of S21 was played, this time it was a 5+1 arena. For the rules please refer to the announcement post. 19 players had joined, welcome back Hive account@yonnathang and Hive account@duskobgd and a warm welcome to Hivechess, Hive account@inuke! The berserk rate was with 41% quite high, as expected, the average rating on the other hand was the lowest in this season: 1651.

This time IM Hive account@maestroask was the only one from the strong players of tournament 4 showing up, so with a rating of >500 higher than the next seeded one it can hardly be called a competition. Runner-up was Hive account@southgamer who had recovered from his bad day last week. Third place went to Hive account@odic3o1 who grabbed the podium place last minute from myself. Hive account@lighteye landed on rank 5, his best result this season! Congratulations to All!

Result table of round 11:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/HwWLM5cW

Season 21: 26 Sep to 12 Dec 2025 / Ranking after 11 of 12 rounds:

Tournament 1 (0-1499)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@salomijale	summisineon1	IND	1432	10	86	1702
2	Hive account@lailawrites	Ohieku		1446	9	61	1458,8
3	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	UKR	1386	10	49	1409
4	Hive account@spartano	humbertoortega	VEN	1494	6	36	1630
5(+1)	Hive account@elcholitosanto	RicardoFox	PER	1357	4	22	1547,5
6(-1)	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	SRB	1110	9	19	1211,2
7(new)	Hive account@yonnathang	Yonnathang	VEN	1276	7	1	1717
8(-1)	Hive account@teooo	teoooForHive		1467	1	7	1470
9(new)	Hive account@duskobgd	duskobgd	SRB	1326	1	5	1779
10(-2)	Hive account@dadapizza	knighthammer7		997	1	5	1153
11(-2)	Hive account@ismeris	ismeris	VEN		1	1

Tournament 2 (1500-1799)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@giuatt07	guisep73	ITA	1679	11	142	1751,8
2(+1)	Hive account@justola1	just_ola	NGA	1785	11	121	1734,6
3(-1)	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	BIH	1537	11	118	1595,6
4	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	SRB	1650	11	113	1801,5
5(+1)	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	UKR	1645	9	88	1639,8
6(-1)	Hive account@ezemhugo	MixzyRagnal	NGA	1778	9	87	1680,5
7	Hive account@odic3o1	odic3o	ECU	1754	6	60	1739,8
8	Hive account@darruiz	darruiz	VEN	1502	8	52	1686,3
9	Hive account@rodrook	RDcast	USA	1517	4	36	1575
10	Hive account@schamangerbert	HerbyW	GER	1601	2	28	1948
11	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	VEN	1644	2	12	1821
12	Hive account@draco2	Draco2	NGA	1771	1	10	1741
13	Hive account@inuke	inuke_2025	IND	1685?	1	4	1615

Tournament 3 (1800-2099)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	AUT	2039	10	178	2042,7
2	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	VEN	1957	10	150	1843,7
3	Hive account@southgamer	SouthGamer		2032	10	144	1918,7
4	Hive account@justfavour	justfavour	NGA	1764	8	107	1794
5	Hive account@dhilan04	tortyllan		1963	4	83	1870
6	@madChess64	MadChess64	NGA	1998	2	45	1908
7	Hive account@fcastro177	FCastro17	VEN	1998	2	36	2074
8	Hive account@mendelito	TheMadman4rmDaSouth	NGA	1983	1	22	1900
9	Hive account@tobijob	tobilobajob	NGA	1998	1	20	2074
10	Hive account@maverieux000	Keylix		2066	1	19	2154

Tournament 4 (2100+)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@maestroask	IM Odnoobraz	RUS	2577	11	215	2374
2	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	NGA	2098	8	161	1936
3	Hive account@tangibleay	Tangible_ay	NGA	2147	6	121	2139
4	Hive account@jaki01	jaki01	GER	2291	6	111	2208
5	Hive account@stuffings	stuffings	NGA	2262	5	91	2096
6	Hive account@eniolw	eniolw	VEN	2442	3	69	2354
7	Hive account@dalods	Gmdalods-16	NGA	2304	2	55	2045
8	Hive account@dakods	Dakods-16	NGA	2259	2	38	2103
9	Hive account@lucianosky	Pavarotty	NGA	2337	2	24	2303
10	Hive account@africanchess	othims	NGA		2	23
11	Hive account@tony1294	tony1294	VEN		1	21

No changes in the top positions except in tournament 2, where Hive account@justola1 could grab back rank 2 from Hive account@sammy00!

Don´t miss out on the final showdown (last round!) next week and keep practicing until then!

This is a pic of Hans Niemann and Fabiano Caruana playing diving chess (actually when Fabi was resigning)!

^{https://www.freestyle-chess.com/news/hans-niemann-diving-chess-cape-town-2025-champion/}

With this win Niemann earned himself the title "Diving Chess Cape Town 2025 Champion" in an underwater chess event held in South Africa. The players are hanging around there and participate in side events before the start of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Finals on the 8^th Dec.
https://www.freestyle-chess.com/news/

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