Reminder: Round 9 of the Hivechess Tournament S17 , Friday 20h GMT

Dear chess fans!

The penultimate round 9 of Season 17 "x4" is played tomorrow, Friday, 16th Feb. 2024, at the usual time.
The current standings after 8 rounds you can find here.

Since the first Fischer Random classical tournament among top players will be finished tomorrow (see at the bottom of this post), let´s play some games in this very interesting format!

Mode: 4+2 (4 minutes per game, 2 sec. increment), 60 min. Chess960 arena

Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/qV1GYa7n

The prize pool contains already app. 483 Hive!

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 10), 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 (70%) and the number of rounds played (30%). In order to qualify for a prize you have to participate in at least five 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.
• LEO prizes will be funded by @leofinance, detailes to be confirmed
• 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! Community 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 on Friday and good luck to all!

Potentially of interest to:
@aakrist @abimbola753 @acidtiger @agreste @aiuna @amit.pangeni @artsbreezy01 @ajumaa @alberto0607 @alexmag1988 @almightymelon @alpha @ambarvegas @anadello @andzhi @anli @anomadsoul @apy @arsenal49 @artistparthoroy @astrolabio @awesomeintrigue @b0s @behiver @beyondhorizonmm @bitsignal @brijwhiz @burnoutawesome @camiloferrua @cerati @chessbrotherspro @chesthetica @clixmoney @cryptogee @cryptoniusraptor @cryptoph0823 @cryptopi314 @ctrpch @dhilan04 @darruiz @diegofitness92 @digitalis @djbravo @ebingo @eliaschess333 @elprofe62 @emeka4 @emerald09551 @eenriquerivas @elcholitosanto @engilhramn @eniolw @evgsk @fcastro177 @fiona777 @flaws @foxconnmars @franciscomarval @franu @gabotask @giacomone @gingerbyna @grafo07 @hannes-stoffel @heimindanger @heathbadger @hierro21 @hirohurl @hivetrader @iamchessguy @iammanythings1 @ibizaki @iceblue @idksamad78699 @iobates @ironshield @jaki01 @jesusmgl1995 @jesustiano @jkms @johannfrare @josesmoke @juanmi96 @justfavour @kaungsett8388 @kintokris @kreur @levitant @lighteye @lofone @lucianosky @maciejficek @maestroask @marcusantoniu26 @mario89 @masterswatch @maverieux000 @mdasein @meedo @memess @mrsarri @mstafford @mundharmonika @mundocuriosidad @mypathtofire @nftland1989 @nikoszzz @oadissin @odic3o1 @officialrosh1 @og-gamershub @olujay @omonomo @onthewayout @orlanzavala @oshiokhenhoya @pamboy27 @parung76 @perpz @petreius @philipp87 @pokerarema @pokermaria @pravesh0 @precab @purapapita @rafaelaquino @ram9612 @razzor @renerondon @rexplanet @rheda @rodrook @ropavejero @rosmarly @salomijale @samostically @sanjamkapoors @sawko @schamangerbert @schnitte @soluce07 @solymi @spacetoon @steamloled @steemychicken1 @stranger27 @syndmitrij @the01crow @thedoc07 @therealflaws @timix648 @timofey @tin.aung.soe @tony1294 @tungphong @uliseshb @vaipraonde @vasigo @victorbch2 @vjap55 @volkiceper @walner @wegflexor @xoflox @yazp @yf95 @yonnathang @zacherybinx @ziabutt3836
(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)

Tomorrow also the winner of the FREESTYLE CHESS G.O.A.T. CHALLENGE will be decided in the second final match between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, later today the first final match starts, you can watch it here: https://lichess.org/broadcast/freestyle-chess-goat-challenge/final-1/2r9igqGw

Interestingly the organizers changed the name of this variant from Fischer Random / Chess960 to the more attractive (?) "Freestyle Chess". How do you like the name? In any case, they plan to make a series of tournaments out of it - I like it! No theory, you have to play from move 1!

Knockout table:

https://www.freestyle-chess.com/

They did also nice photographs, e.g.I find this one of Magnus in the "confession booth" quite funny.

https://www.freestyle-chess.com/photo-gallery/

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