Dear chess fans!
The (record-breaking) prices from Season 13 were in the meantime sent to to all eligible players.
In total (rounded up) 973 Hive (currently app. 358$) plus 533 LEO have accumulated in the 
Thanks a lot to all the Upvoters and Supporters!
Here is the snapshot of the final pricepool.
đ Payout table of Season 13 đ
The Hivechess Hall of Fame
is now located here as a post collection (and includes ALL chess tournaments on Hive):
@badge-646464/the-hivechess-hall-of-fame
Select "View as post" in order to see it in a better way!
After the break Season 14 will start this Friday 2nd Dec., 20h GMT (at the usual time)! It will go over 9 rounds and will be conducted in the classical way, well at least until round 6 đ. So read on carefully regarding the changes of the rules!
! Without registration, you can play but your result won´t be counted! Upfront means, if you send the fee only after the first round is played, the result of the first round still will not be counted.
The percentage of post rewards feeding the price pool stays at 70% and the
The points for each round are distributed via the "Lighteye system", explained here!
And like in S13, the worst result in terms of tournament points from each player will NOT be counted. So if a player participates 9 times, the best 8 results will be counted, and if he is 4 times present, only the 3 best results will be counted, and players with less than 4 participations anyway are´t eligible for prices. But deleted results will still be valid for the overall performance and special price calculations.
Thanks to 
What´s new?
The 1 Hive registration fee I had mentioned already. Unless you have sent it, your result won´t be counted in the season ranking, so don´t forget it! This is the ultimate test, if people are willing to read!
But the biggest change is that for the first time we will have a group phase and playoffs for the title. In the last seasons it was too obvious who would be the winner, wasn´t it. Therefore, after 6 rounds (and deleting the worst result), ONLY THE TOP 8 RANKED PLAYERS will enter the knockout stage and fight against each other in quarterfinals, then semifinals, and finally in the match for the champion title, while the rest of the players continues to play the remaining 3 rounds. The winner of the remaining tournament (i.e. the 9th ranked in total) has a seat in the next season´s playoff! So it is still worthwhile to continue playing! From S15 onwards only the best 7 make it into the playoffs while the 8th one comes from the previous season´s winner of the general field (only if he won´t be able to participate, the 8th ranked will be the replacement).
The exact details of the playoffs will be announced later, just to give you an idea it will more or less look like this, with e.g. having the best of 5 blitz games to decide the winner of each match ( I am open to suggestions of how the matches should look like):
There will be also a new special price of 5 Hive plus 50 LEO for the best tournament report, replacing 2 of the previous special prices. If you see an awesome tournament report, give it a shoutout, tagging me, so that I won´t overlook. The report with the most positive comments gets the price. If not decisive, I will decide by myself.
Round 1
Time Mode: 4+1 (4 minutes per game, 1 sec. increment), 70 min.arena
Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/FnvvkzHR
Rules
- Players of all skill levels are welcome, from newbies to experts, you just need a free Lichess-account and join our team in Lichess here!
- Every Friday is one round.
- Registration fee is 1 Hive (or HBD), to be sent to
- Time mode is varying (5+0, 3+2, 2+1,...).
- 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. 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.
- After 6 rounds, the top 8 ranked players will enter a knockout stage to fight for the champion title, all others continue to play in 3 remaining rounds. The worst result in terms of points among the 6 (top 8) or 9 (rest) rounds will be deleted. The winner of the general section (= 9th ranked) qualifies for the playoff of the next season!
- PAYOUT: The tournament points of the 6/9 rounds are summed up. 70% of all Hivechess-related post rewards go to the price pool (PP). The tournament winner will get 50 Hive as bonus, the prices for the other players who have entered the knockout stage will be calculated at the end of the season. The rest of the PP is divided among all players equally (40%) and according to the number of tournament points achieved (60%). Participation in 4 rounds is required in order to qualify for the prices.
- There will be a special price of 5 Hive plus 50 LEO for the highest performance in relation to the own rating (counted by averaging the rating after the first and the last round).
- There will be a special price of 5 Hive plus 50 LEO for the best tournament report of the season (can be a post, streaming of a round, podcast, whatever)!
- If I don´t know your Hive username, you won´t be considered for prices, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments! Group or badge accounts can participate but are not qualified for prices! Only individuals can get prices.
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 all on Friday, don´t forget to register and good luck!
Potentially of interest to:
(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)
