Hivechess Tournament Season 21 Round 8: @maestroask stumbled to victory

Dear chess fans,

today round 8 of S21 was played as a 5+3 arena. For the rules please refer to the announcement post. Only 21 players were joining - quite disappointing! The average rating was 1772, with a berserk rate of 44%. Welcome back, Hive account@mendelito!

This time most of the time Hive account@rosmarly and then Hive account@southgamer were in the lead, but in the last minutes - as so often - IM Hive account@maestroask overtook them. At the end runner-up was Hive account@southgamer who had more favourable pairings, followed by IM Hive account@stuffings and on rank 4 Hive account@rosmarly. Congratulations to All! Hive account@samostically had some severe internet connection problems and could not make it into the top10.

Result table of round 8:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/kFyuJO3G

Season 21: 26 Sep to 12 Dec 2025 / Ranking after 8 of 12 rounds:

Tournament 1 (0-1499)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@salomijale	summisineon1	IND	1480	8	74	1743
2	Hive account@lailawrites	Ohieku		1325	6	37	1454
3	Hive account@spartano	humbertoortega	VEN	1494	6	36	1630
4	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	UKR	1398	7	31	1343
5(+2)	Hive account@elcholitosanto	RicardoFox	PER	1332	2	14	1639,5
6(-1)	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	SRB	1144	7	13	1232
7(-1)	Hive account@teooo	teoooForHive		1467	1	7	1470
8	Hive account@dadapizza	knighthammer7		997	1	5	1153

Tournament 2 (1500-1799)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@giuatt07	guisep73	ITA	1673	8	108	1763
2(+1)	Hive account@justola1	just-ola	NGA	1725	8	92	1679
3(+1)	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	BIH	1602	8	92	1638
4(-2)	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	SRB	1698	8	91	1826
5	Hive account@ezemhugo	MixzyRagnal	NGA	1698	7	84	1749
6	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	UKR	1701	7	67	1651
7(+2)	Hive account@darruiz	darruiz	VEN	1510	5	31	1651,5
8(-1)	Hive account@schamangerbert	HerbyW	GER	1601	2	28	1948
9(-1)	Hive account@odic3o1	odic3o	ECU	1754	4	28	1716
10	Hive account@rodrook	RDcast	USA	1517	3	25	1575
11(+1)	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	VEN	1644	2	12	1821
12(-1)	Hive account@draco2	Draco2	NGA	1771	1	10	1741

Tournament 3 (1800-2099)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	AUT	2038	8	143	2026,5
2(+1)	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	VEN	1974	7	116	1916
3(+1)	Hive account@southgamer	SouthGamer		1904	7	109	1866
4(-2)	Hive account@justfavour	justfavour	NGA	1764	8	107	1794
5	Hive account@dhilan04	tortyllan		1963	3	62	1870
6	@madChess64	MadChess64	NGA	1998	2	45	1908
7(new)	Hive account@mendelito	TheMadman4rmDaSouth	NGA	1983	1	22	1900
8(-1)	Hive account@tobijob	tobilobajob	NGA	1998	1	20	2074
9(-1)	Hive account@maverieux000	Keylix		2066	1	19	2154
10(-1)	Hive account@fcastro177	FCastro17	VEN	1998	1	16	2074

Tournament 4 (2100+)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1(+1)	Hive account@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm	RUS	2523	8	162	2406
2(-1)	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	NGA	2157	7	152	1974
3	Hive account@jaki01	jaki01	GER	2306	5	98	2205
4(+1)	Hive account@stuffings	stuffings	NGA	2262	5	91	2096
5(-1)	Hive account@tangibleay	Tangible_ay	NGA	2175	4	90	2172
6	Hive account@dalods	Gmdalods-16	NGA	2304	2	55	2045
7	Hive account@eniolw	eniolw	VEN	2429	2	54	2376
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

Quite some shuffles in the top positions, in tournament 4 finally Hive account@maestroask was able to overtake Hive account@samostically and is now in the lead. In tournament 3 Hive account@justfavour had a really bad day and lost not only a podium place, but also is in danger to get demoted to tier 2.

As always, see you tomorrow at the HiveChess Saturday Showdown (R20), hosted by Hive account@samostically:
@sam.chess/hivechess-saturday-showdown-r20-and-friday-event-tomorrow

See you next week and keep practicing!