Introducing the Lichess Liga Team Battle, starting tomorrow, Sunday 18h GMT!

Dear chessfans!

While we have a break from the classical Friday´s Hivechess season, there is no stop from playing chess on Hive (besides Hive account@schamangerbert has started the Saturday´s tournament again)!

In this new tournament it is not about playing against each other (in fact we won´t be even paired against each other!). In the Lichess Liga Team Battle it is all about our Blockchain chess team against other teams!
It starts tomorrow, Sunday 14^th May, 18h GMT, so one hour earlier than usually.

How can we as a global chess team - built mostly by a common interest in Hive - compete against many other teams who come from traditional chess clubs? I think this is a great question waiting to be answered and at the same time also can promote crypto and Hive to nocoiners.

Those tournemants are organized by Lichess moderator FM jeffforever and are conducted 2 times per week (every Thursday and Sunday), with varying time formats. It is a huge event, ongoing since 2020, with app. 500 teams and >4000 players participating each time and dozens of leages in parallel (here is an overview)! The highest possible liga is the "Lichess Bundesliga". There are often IMs and FMs as team leaders, so expect some strong opponents. But don´t be afraid, on the higher board numbers there are less experienced players, so in fact the teams are mostly as heterogenous as ours.

There is no registration for you needed. We start in liga 12B. The more from our team participate, the higher our chances will be to get a good result and improve in the rankings. E.g. if we end up in the top 3, we will be in liga 11 next time! If we make it to rank 8 only, we will be downgraded to liga 13, as can be seen on the left side of the tournament page:
Update: Currently we are #1 seeded, with Hive account@pamboy27 as our strongest player!

https://lichess.org/tournament/OU35ogi6

How far can we get?

The rules:

• Everybody in our Lichess team can join using the link to the tournament (pick our team if asked 😃, in case you are part of multiple teams)
• A win collects 2 points for our team, a draw 1
• Only the results of the 6 best contributors of each team are counted in this liga (but all skill levels are important, because each win means potentially less points for the other teams!)
• Every Thursday and Sunday are tournaments
• The links to the upcoming tournaments are - dependent on our result - already provided in the description of the tournament itself and also on our team page! But I plan to post reminders as well.

Mode: 3+0 (3 minutes per game, no increment), 100 min. rated arena, win streaks & berserk allowed

Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/OU35ogi6

So please give it a try and lets show the Lichessers around the globe that there is an awesome team dedicated to blockchain and Hive! As far as I can judge, we are anyway quite strong and should manage to get a good place if several of our top players are able to join!

! [Mention List]
Potentially of interest to:
Hive account@aakrist Hive account@abimbola753 Hive account@acidtiger Hive account@agreste Hive account@aiuna Hive account@alucian Hive account@artsbreezy01 Hive account@ajumaa Hive account@alberto0607 Hive account@alexmag1988 Hive account@almightymelon Hive account@alpha Hive account@ambarvegas Hive account@anadello Hive account@andzhi Hive account@anli Hive account@anomadsoul Hive account@apy Hive account@arsenal49 Hive account@artistparthoroy Hive account@astrolabio Hive account@awesomeintrigue Hive account@b0s Hive account@behiver Hive account@beyondhorizonmm Hive account@bitsignal Hive account@burnoutawesome Hive account@camiloferrua Hive account@cerati Hive account@chessbrotherspro Hive account@chesthetica Hive account@clixmoney Hive account@cryptogee Hive account@cryptoniusraptor Hive account@cryptoph0823 Hive account@cryptopi314 Hive account@dhilan04 Hive account@darruiz Hive account@diegofitness92 Hive account@digitalis Hive account@ebingo Hive account@eliaschess333 Hive account@elprofe62 Hive account@emeka4 Hive account@eniolw Hive account@eenriquerivas Hive account@engilhramn Hive account@evgsk Hive account@fcastro177 Hive account@fiona777 Hive account@flaws Hive account@foxconnmars Hive account@franciscomarval Hive account@franu Hive account@gabotask Hive account@giacomone Hive account@gingerbyna Hive account@grafo07 Hive account@hannes-stoffel Hive account@heimindanger Hive account@herz-ass Hive account@hierro21 Hive account@hirohurl Hive account@hivetrader Hive account@iamchessguy Hive account@iammanythings1 Hive account@ibizaki Hive account@iceblue Hive account@iobates Hive account@ironshield Hive account@jaki01 Hive account@jesusmgl1995 Hive account@jesustiano Hive account@jkms Hive account@johannfrare Hive account@josesmoke Hive account@juanmi96 Hive account@justfavour Hive account@kaungsett8388 Hive account@kintokris Hive account@kreur Hive account@levitant Hive account@lighteye Hive account@lofone Hive account@lucianosky Hive account@maciejficek Hive account@maestroask Hive account@marcusantoniu26 Hive account@mario89 Hive account@masterswatch Hive account@maverieux000 Hive account@meedo Hive account@memess Hive account@mrsarri Hive account@mstafford Hive account@mundocuriosidad Hive account@mypathtofire Hive account@nftland1989 Hive account@nikoszzz Hive account@oadissin Hive account@officialrosh1 Hive account@olujay Hive account@omonomo Hive account@orlanzavala Hive account@oshiokhenhoya Hive account@pamboy27 Hive account@parung76 Hive account@perpz Hive account@petreius Hive account@philipp87 Hive account@pokerarema Hive account@pokermaria Hive account@pravesh0 Hive account@primersion Hive account@ptmaker Hive account@rafaelaquino Hive account@rafzat Hive account@razzor Hive account@renerondon Hive account@rexplanet Hive account@rheda Hive account@rodrook Hive account@ropavejero Hive account@rosmarly Hive account@salomijale Hive account@samostically Hive account@sanjamkapoors Hive account@sawko Hive account@schamangerbert Hive account@schnitte Hive account@soluce07 Hive account@solymi Hive account@spacetoon Hive account@steamloled Hive account@steemychicken1 Hive account@stranger27 Hive account@syndmitrij Hive account@the01crow Hive account@thedoc07 Hive account@therealflaws Hive account@timix648 Hive account@timofey Hive account@tin.aung.soe Hive account@tony1294 Hive account@tungphong Hive account@uliseshb Hive account@vaipraonde Hive account@vasigo Hive account@victorbch2 Hive account@vjap55 Hive account@volkiceper Hive account@walner Hive account@wegflexor Hive account@xoflox Hive account@yazp Hive account@zacherybinx Hive account@ziabutt3836
(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)

As a small incentive, to every player who will be contributing points to the end result (i.e. the top 6 of our team) I will send 1 Hive!
Also, 30% of the rewards of this post go the prizepool of S16!