Hivechess Tournament Season 14 Round 2: @maestroask was the winner in a soccer-depleted field

Dear chess fans,

yesterday the second round of S14 was a 5+0 Swiss tournament. Only 14 players had participated, many strong players were missing - maybe due to the soccer world cup quarter final Argentina-Netherlands! Actually 16, but 2 have not registered by sending one Hive to @badge-646464.

I found this slogan by Lichess quite philosophical:

Not surprisingly, @maestroask won effortlessly with 7 out of 7 points. More of a surprise was that I could end up as second, barely ahead of @wildthougts with both 5 out of 7. Fourth was @rosmarly (as the 2 players in front of her were not registered), leading a pack of 3 more players with 4 points: @sammy00, @stranger27 and @maciejficek. Congratulations to All!

Result of round 2:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/swiss/r7pqgI5Z

Season 14: 02 Dec to 27 Jan 2023 / Ranking after 2 rounds:

The rules you can look up in the S14 announcement post.

Quite some jumps this time. Let´s see how it develops and if all the stronger players will be able to recapture the top ranks in the next rounds to ensure seats in the knockout stage.

See you all next week - and keep practicing!

It seems that chessboxing gets increasingly popular. Have you been aware that recently the 4^th chessboxing world championship was carried out (the first after Corona)? Me neither.

^{https://www.schachboxer.de/schachbox-weltmeisterschaft-2022-in-antalya/}

There will be also a chess boxing event today, 11^th Dec. featuring IM Lawrence Trent. Some of you may know him from chess commentary. He is has been training boxing since weeks to survive this fight.
Read more about it here: https://www.chess.com/news/view/ludwig-mogul-chessboxing-championship-pogchamps