This Friday is crazy Hivechess time!
Hi chess fans!
Are you missing the Friday Hivechess tournaments?
Well, this Friday, the 17th Feb., at 20h GMT there will be fun chess time!
OPEN TO ALL SKILL LEVELS. All you need is a free Lichess-account. 50% of the rewards of this post go into the next season´s price pool.
The winner gets 4 Hive right away sent into his wallet, the runner-up 1 Hive!
Mode: 3+2 (3 minutes per game, 2 sec. increment per move), 60 min. arena mode with no streaks.
Sounds pretty normal so far, but again it will be...
In the Crazyhouse variant the normal rules of chess apply, with the following additions:
- A piece that is captured reverses color and goes to the capturing player's reserve. At any time, instead of making a move with a piece on the board, a player can drop one of their held pieces onto an empty square on the board (therefore this variant is also called drop chess). So e.g. if you capture a pawn, it becomes yours and in the next move (or later) you can drop it anywhere to the board, with these restrictions:
- A pawn may not be dropped on the 1st or 8th ranks, if it is dropped on its 2nd rank, it may use its two-square initial advance.
- When a piece that is promoted from a pawn is captured, it enters the opponent's reserve as a pawn.
Easy, right? But I advise you to try it out first! There will some big surprises, promised! There is a good reason another name for it is "mad chess"!
The key is (in my humble opinion, I am not an expert) to on one hand use the captured pieces quickly to gain an advantage and use and keep that momentum. But on the other hand don´t burn all the pieces too lightly - as soon as you give your opponent a single moment to breathe or by making a non-forcing move, things can escalate quickly against you. E.g. there is no need to take care about a backrank mate, as long as you have a piece in reserve you can use to block. So to find the right balance in managing your reserve piece pool is the crucial aspect here. And take care especially about the knights! Knights can be really tricky as they can show up anywhere on the board to fork you!
It is really fun - unless you get all of a sudden mated despite having two queens in the pool which you never had a chance to drop.
Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/ImdAYfOK
Good luck for this one - you will need it 😃
Potentially of interest to:
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(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)
Speaking of crazy chess, did you ever had such a tight time scramble? Here I won by just 0,02 seconds! I hope I didn´t use up all my luck!
It's back!
Wait, this is on? My god, wanna join it since forever :D
Then please feel free to join, the password for our Lichess team is "Hive"
Im gonna try lets see how it goes :)
Joined the team with the pass, but dont know how to join the tournament :S First time using said website :)
you made it!
Thanks for joining!
Finally some good fucking chess again, I was waiting for Friday Hive Chess to come back!
It´s for now only a standalone tournament. The next season will start only in 2 (maybe 3 weeks).
Count me in !!!
Haha that 2 milisec win, the opponent had to be furious after that. xD
Can you please tell me the team entry code I can't join the tourney without joining the team.
Sure, it is „Hive“
Okay, I sent the request to join.
Got it!
The very day i will learn how to play chess that day i must disturb everybody here in the chess community, i have so many friends that can play chess but i am just too lazy to learn it😏
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This is a bummer for me, got the late shift this Friday so can not make it in time :-(
Wish you all a lot of fun and hopefully I can join next time.
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Wusste gr nicht, dass Du auch Schach spielst. Das Passwort für unser Lichess-Team ist "Hive". Soll ich Dich auf die Reminder-Liste setzen, damit Du von kommenden Turnieren erfährst?
Nur bisschen Hobby, aus meiner Schulzeit noch.
Reminder wäre nett, danke. Im Team bin ich schon drin, wollte schon länger endlich mal dazu stoßen, hab aber jetzt erst vor kurzem die Zeit für mehr Hive gefunden.
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Man I'm so sorry, I completely forgot this. I was so focused on gaming and didn't see this post.
I hope you guys had a great time. I used to play a lot of Crazyhouse in the past bc its toooo funny. I'll be here the next time for sure!!
This was a lot of fun! Thank you for organizing it.
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It won´t stop 😄, but it won´t always be the crazyhouse variant! Pre-announcement soon.
Interesting .. feel lucky for finding this
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It will be kinda off-topic, so I write it to you in an older post. I've just found your chess community, tournament series a week ago, last Friday I already played, and definetly will keep going with that.
However, the main reason I joined, I want to see how you do it, generally. My thing is mainly poker (I like chess, but haven't played since years, poker is a bit more luck, but still there is the skill part, too.) That's how I found Hive, just searched for poker rooms, and Lucksacks jumped up, so I checked. It is pretty much dead, however I don't see any reason, why it couldn't be something similar like your chess community, tournamets.
I even tried in december, made few free tourneys for Hive price, there are some interest, 6-10 people were in the tourneys, pretty much how you started it.
So any idea, advice how to create, build something similar like your chess community from zero? I got it, the money factor is important. (What is very limited to me, I can power up some every week, but voting value is still almost 0 and I can't afford to finance tourneys all the time, but how you do, put the posts rewards in the price pool, I think the best way to go, I thought for it immediately when i found Hive, Lucksacks.) Here comes the questions, the few poker players are not whales on Hive, not even near, and they are more active on discord than Hive, so even motivate them to vote a post about tourneys, even if 100% of post reward goes to tourney price is hard. I really dont understand why.
The other thing, how to get the words out, find more people who like poker? (I know plenty poker players who are in crypto, strangly i couldnt find much here.) And it considered gambling in many game related community, so if I follow their 'rules', I can't post there about it. (Stupid thinking, you dont know best slots, lotto, sport betting 'players', but you do poker, chess players, so probably not much gambling.) It is in my username, tried to comment popular posts, maybe it will take some poker fans attention, not really.
Should I find someone, who already here for long time, 'Hive rich' and like poker?
i write a lot, pardon me. would you please just share your thoughts, ideas, advices on it, how did you start it from zero? (i read your 5+ years ago, first post and few more, but the very beginning, how you find the first people is not really detailed in it)
thank you !
Not easy to answer all this :)
It grew over time, initially @schamangerbert was the only one doing a tournament with app. 6 players, now we have several ones going in parallel. For sure the pricepool helps, I invested a lot in Hive, bought many cheap at 10c, years ago. I could imagine that if no rewards we would have less players.
Try to keep advertizing your tournament, you may add some random special prices for participants. If you don´t find some on Hive, you can ask them to just create a Hive account, it is free anyway.
Yeah, I was thinking the same, I am active on few poker forums, however the freeroll poker tourneys provided by forums, pokerrooms still have much higher prices what i can afford (or could reach by posts even with plenty 'whales' votes), so those players mostly prefer that.
Unfortunately, that's how I see, buy lots of Hive, give HP for new registered guys for 1-2 months, finance price pool at the beginning or find someone, who is on Hive with huge HP and like poker.