Hivechess Tournament Season 21 Round 1: @maestroask was the winner, ahead of @lucianosky!
Dear chess fans,
yesterday season 21 was kicked off with a 4+0 Swiss tournament over 9 rounds. For the rules please refer to the announcement post. Only 18 players, but with a quite high average rating of 1826, were participating. Just as a reminder, 5 games minimum need to be played to get counted for the standings!
IM @maestroask (Odnoobraz_bcm) was the not that surprising winner with 9/9 points, followed by @lucianosky (Pavarotty) and @tangibleay with both 7/9. Rank 4 went to @jaki01! Congratulations to All!
Result table of round 1:
Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/swiss/V3smvtgk
Season 21: 26 Sep to 12 Dec 2025 / Ranking after the first round:
(Please note, that many players didn´t start with zero because engagement in the Lichess Liga Team Battle and the fun tournament could have earned them up to 11 points!)
We see some surprises in the leaderboards. @sammy00, @rodrook and @darruiz did not start in the lowest skill group as in the last seasons, but crossed the 1500 rating mark and tiered up (in some cases just barely). And also @justola1 and @justfavour have improved a lot in their rankings and are now together with stronger opponents!
Tournament 1 (0-1499)
| Rank | Hive name | Lichess name | Country | Rating | Rounds played | Points | Performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @salomijale | summisineon1 | IND | 1306 | 1 | 10 | 1815 |
| 2 | @dadapizza | knighthammer7 | 997 | 1 | 5 | 1153 | |
| 3 | @vasigo | vasigo | SRB | 1305 | 1 | 2 | 1311 |
Tournament 2 (1500-1799)
| Rank | Hive name | Lichess name | Country | Rating | Rounds played | Points | Performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @giuatt07 | guisep73 | ITA | 1678 | 1 | 16 | 1829 |
| 2 | @lighteye | lighteye | SRB | 1685 | 1 | 14 | 1737 |
| 3 | @sammy00 | migmag | BIH | 1587 | 1 | 11 | 1690 |
| 4 | @rodrook | RDcast | USA | 1510 | 1 | 8 | 1506 |
| 5 | @darruiz | darruiz | VEN | 1510 | 1 | 7 | 1641 |
| 4 | @odic3o1 | odic3o | NGA | 1730 | 1 | 6 | 1508 |
Tournament 3 (1800-2099)
| Rank | Hive name | Lichess name | Country | Rating | Rounds played | Points | Performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @maverieux000 | Keylix | 2066 | 1 | 19 | 2154 | |
| 2 | @rosmarly | rosmarly | VEN | 2000 | 1 | 19 | 1849 |
| 3 | @justfavour | justfavour | NGA | 1880 | 1 | 18 | 2009 |
| 4 | @stayoutoftherz | stayoutoftherz | AUT | 2026 | 1 | 18 | 1829 |
| 5 | @justola1 | just-ola | NGA | 1837 | 1 | 13 | 1603 |
Tournament 4 (2100+)
| Rank | Hive name | Lichess name | Country | Rating | Rounds played | Points | Performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @tangibleay | Tangible_ay | NGA | 2235 | 1 | 26 | 2225 |
| 2 | @jaki01 | jaki01 | GER | 2318 | 1 | 25 | 2156 |
| 3 | @maestroask | Odnoobraz_bcm | RUS | 2482 | 1 | 19 | 2541 |
| 4 | @lucianosky | Pavarotty | NGA | 2337 | 1 | 17 | 2303 |
Please let me know your country if you are comfortable with it, to complete the table! Many thanks! By the way, @jaki01, is "GER" still correct or do you prefer the country of your current location?
I hope, some more players join in in the next rounds.
See you all next week - and keep practicing!
My country name is India. Great battles and i hope some more people will join un next round
Thanks! You had a strong start (I guess your Lichess name was in the past another?)
Yeah, i forgot the password of that account and i created this new one.
It's good to have our tournament here again
Thank youu
Hi guys. I want to play , can you tell me how?
Sure, just read the announcement post and join our lichess team here. The next tournament starts next Friday, follow my blog to get the tournament link. In the meantime there is also a tournament today and tomorrow as well.
👍 ok
You need to join our team:
https://lichess.org/team/the-blockchain-chess-team
My account
Hi to all, my country is Italy, Thanks and see you next time !
Got it, grazie!
Nice start of season, thanks all!
My country is Russia, so please correct location in the table.
Noted, thanks! For some reason I was under the assumption that you were from Venezuela :)
Hi, @maestroask, can you please explain why all your Lichess accounts were closed?
Would also be interesting for the other tournament host, @samostically.
Hi. Strange events are happening on Lichess right now. Yesterday, three of my accounts (out of 6) were closed for multiaccounting, although there was no strict prohibition on having multiple accounts before, if there are reasonable reasons for this. Today, some fraudster is writing to the captains of the teams from the account "Kireev_ko" created by him, allegedly on my behalf. I have already written to Lichess support regarding the closed accounts, and sent a complaint about the fraudster, but there are no answers yet. I will try to restore my closed accounts, but with the speed of Lichess support, I'm afraid the issue won't be resolved until Friday tournament. If nothing works out, I will join to the team from the Odnoobraz title account.
Thanks for you quick response. Better you play from your initial account "Odnoobraz_bcm". A user can´t switch accounts in the middle of the season just like that, as otherwise I have no clue who is playing and don´t want to request identification. Happened also to @rodrook.
By the way, there were always rules about multiple accounts on lichess saying this is not allowed. Maybe for titled players there are exceptions, but 6 different accounts seems excessive.
Of course it's better and more convenient to save "Odnoobraz_bcm" and play from it, but it's now closed, and all depend on Lichess administrators and moderators.
I was aware of the Lichess rules about multiaccounts, but it was never a strict and unambiguous prohibition. Previously, the rules even specified approximate situations: exploring a new opening, playing blind, etc., and it was said that administrators would make a decision on a case-by-case basis. So I've never hidden my accounts, as well as the reason why there are so many of them: a limit of 50 teams per account.
Lichess refused to restore my 3 closed accounts. They say that I already have several accounts, so that's enough. :(
They gave me a lot of work on sorting teams yesterday and today, which I would have been happy to do without. So I'll have to continue playing here from my titled "Odnoobraz" account, already joined team.
@stayoutoftherz, @sam.chess.
Seems OK, but we need proof that Lichess really banned the account for other reasons. So please send an official screenshot from Lichess about the reason why Odnoobraz_bcm was banned! Since money is involved, we can´t allow any doubts of cheating.
Ok. I can't upload this images in comment, so screenshots from my appeal is there: https://ibb.co/0pwSLqf5, https://ibb.co/7NV4kMkd.
Thanks
Hm... Ich vermute, in einem hochoffiziellen Turnier würde die Nationalität angegeben? So gesehen könntest du es lassen, wie es ist, aber entscheide einfach selbst, was dir logischer erscheint.
Dann lasse ich so stehen, die Sprache ist ja noch korrekt :)
Congratulations to the winners. Thanks for hosting too. Glad this tournament is back, bigger and better.
Congrats @maestroask
New group new challenge - it seems everyone is leveling up their game - good to see that
Nice to have Friday chess back
Yes, it is kind of a fresh wind, I like it!
Congratulations!
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