Reminder: Round 9 of the Hivechess Tournament S18 , Friday 19h GMT

Dear chess fans!

The penultimate round 9 of season 18 is played tomorrow Friday, 14^th June 2024, at the usual time. The current standings after 8 rounds you can find here.

Since right now there is the bullet chess championship ongoing, for us it is bullet time as well! So prepare for blunders and time scrambles!

Mode: 2+1 (2 minutes per game, 1 sec. increment), 60 min. arena!

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

The prize pool contains already app. 495 Hive (plus the 500 LEO)!

Rules

• All players are welcome, also newbies, you just need a free Lichess-account and join our team in Lichess here (password is "Hive")!
• Every Friday is one round.
• Time mode is varying (5+0, 3+2, 2+1,...), sometimes Swiss, sometimes maybe Chess960 (Fischer Random).
• The winner of each round gets the number of points equaling the number of players in that round, the second ranked one point less and so forth until the one on the bottom of the table who gets one point (i.e. the Lighteye-scoring). In order to be counted, at least 3 games must have been played.
• In case two players have the same number of points, the one who played less rounds is first. If that is equal too, then the average tournament performance decides.
• PAYOUT: The tournament points of the 10 rounds are summed up. 65% of all Hivechess-related post rewards go to the prize pool (PP). Each of the 4 rating-tiered tournament winners will get "x" Hive (at least 20), the runner-up "y" and the third "z" Hive (depending on the no. of players in each group). The rest of the PP is divided among all other players according to the number of tournament points achieved (75%) and the number of rounds played (25%). In order to qualify for a prize you have to participate in at least six of the 10 rounds!
• There will be a special prize of 5 Hive for the player with the highest tournament performance in relation to his rating.
• 500 LEO will be again sponsored by Hive account@leofinance, details to be determined
• If I don´t know your Hive username, you won´t be considered for prizes, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments! Community or badge accounts can participate but are not qualified for rewards! Only individuals can get prizes.

Please share this announcement among your (chess) friends and colleagues!
The more participate, the more fun! And maybe some are even interested to join Hive and it´s Chess Community?

See you on Friday and good luck to all!

! [Mention List]
Potentially of interest to:
Hive account@aakrist Hive account@abimbola753 Hive account@acidtiger Hive account@agreste Hive account@aiuna Hive account@amit.pangeni 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@brijwhiz Hive account@burnoutawesome Hive account@camiloferrua Hive account@castm2 Hive account@cerati Hive account@chessbrotherspro Hive account@chesthetica Hive account@clixmoney Hive account@cryptogee Hive account@cryptoniusraptor Hive account@cryptoph0823 Hive account@ctrpch Hive account@dhilan04 Hive account@darruiz Hive account@diegofitness92 Hive account@digitalis Hive account@djbravo Hive account@dovycola Hive account@ebingo Hive account@eliaschess333 Hive account@elprofe62 Hive account@emeka4 Hive account@emerald09551 Hive account@eenriquerivas Hive account@elcholitosanto Hive account@engilhramn Hive account@eniolw 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@good-karma Hive account@grafo07 Hive account@hannes-stoffel Hive account@heimindanger Hive account@heathbadger Hive account@hierro21 Hive account@hirohurl Hive account@hivetrader Hive account@iamchessguy Hive account@iammanythings1 Hive account@ibizaki Hive account@iceblue Hive account@idksamad78699 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@mdasein Hive account@meedo Hive account@memess Hive account@mrsarri Hive account@mstafford Hive account@mundharmonika Hive account@mundocuriosidad Hive account@mypathtofire Hive account@nftland1989 Hive account@nikoszzz Hive account@oadissin Hive account@odic3o1 Hive account@officialrosh1 Hive account@og-gamershub Hive account@olujay Hive account@omonomo Hive account@onthewayout Hive account@orlanzavala Hive account@oshiokhenhoya Hive account@pamboy27 Hive account@parung76 Hive account@perpz Hive account@petreius Hive account@philipp87 Hive account@phoennix09 Hive account@pokerarema Hive account@pokermaria Hive account@pravesh0 Hive account@precab Hive account@purapapita Hive account@rafaelaquino Hive account@ram9612 Hive account@razzor Hive account@reiseamateur 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@stranger27 Hive account@syndmitrij Hive account@the01crow Hive account@thedoc07 Hive account@therealflaws Hive account@timix648 Hive account@timofey Hive account@tomasguitar 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@yf95 Hive account@yonnathang Hive account@zacherybinx Hive account@ziabutt3836
(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)

Last week I had played in an Austrian-wide rapid OTB tournament in Vienna. As mentioned there were several IMs and FMs participating. The venue was the same as last time, I had already described it here.

All my opponents were apart from one higher rated than me (on average about 150 ELO pointa), and I made 3,5 out of 9 points - I am not thrilled but it could have been worse.
My ELO performance was slightly below 1800, at least some 50 points better than my actual (rapid) ELO. So it seems to be true that Lichess is overestimating the normal ELO ratings by several hundred points!
With Black I often got serious pressure right out of the opening and could gain only 1 out of 4. With White it was at least somewhat better and there I made 2,5 out of 5.

The only position I remember was this one where I had Black:

White to win.

After my last move Qc8?? (the other options were also losing) I thought I would be out of the woods, with his queen and rook hanging and the knight pinned.
Unfortunately my opponent found the only winning move for White which destroyed all my hopes. Can you find it too?

Here is the position (before my blunder), but try to find the solution by yourself first!
https://lichess.org/analysis/3q1k1r/1bN1ppb1/7p/3RQ3/8/8/PP3PPP/2K3NR_b_-_-_0_1?color=black#2