The Hivechess Tournament is back - Start of Season 15 this Friday!

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Dear chess fans!

The prices from Season 14 were in the meantime sent to the players.
In total 656,1 Hive (currently app. 302$) plus 509 LEO have accumulated in the @badge-646464 account and were distributed among the 20 qualified participants.

Thanks a lot to all the Upvoters and Supporters!

Here is the snapshot of the final pricepool.

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🏆 Payout table of Season 14 🏆

RankHive nameLichess nameRatingRounds playedPointsPrice (Hive)Price (LEO)
Winner@maestroaskOdnoobraz_bcm26068123
2nd@fcastro177FCastro1721176623
3rd@stayoutoftherzstayoutoftherz2028semifinal5123
4@emicemichessmaster2161semifinal4423
5@rosmarlyrosmarly2048quarterfinal36,323
6@lucianoskyPavarotty2323quarterfinal36,323
7@lighteyelighteye1717quarterfinal36,323
8@stranger27stranger271610quarterfinal36,323
9@rodrookrodrook151797531,223
10@schamangerbertHerbyW173576126,523
11@agresteagreste162176126,523
12@b0sDa_k1ng155575524,523
13@maciejficekXM9000145395524,523
14@eniolweniolw236645424,223
15@fiona777fiona777140895022,923
17@tin.aung.soeTinAungSoe126494526,273
20@nikoszzznikoszzz187143517,923
22@sammy00migmag150353216,923
23@vasigovasigo119592514,623
27@mypathtofiremypathtofire129072012,923

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The Hivechess Hall of Fame

is now located here as a post collection (and includes ALL chess tournaments on Hive):
https://peakd.com/ccc/badge-646464/the-hivechess-hall-of-fame
Select "View as post" in order to see it in a better way!


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About Season 15

After the break Season 15 will start this Friday 3rd March, 20h GMT (at the usual time)! It will go over 10 rounds and will be conducted in the very classical way, so without any knockout stage, strike results and without paying an upfront registration fee. I thought long about it, but finally decided that way, also because I think the majority of you likes it less complicated. I know it is unfair against @rodrook who earned a seat in the next quarterfinals by winning the general S14 tournament, but please be ensured, @rodrook, in case somewhere we pick up the idea of a knockout stage with quarterfinals again, you of course will have a seat there!

Despite having no registration fee, if I don´t know the Hive user name belonging to your lichess name (let me know in the comments here), you can play but your result won´t be counted! If you don´t have a Hive account yet, I can generate one for you (for free), just send me a message (e.g. Discord stayoutoftherz#9879).

The percentage of post rewards feeding the price pool is the usual 70% and the @chesspricepool account will be used to accrue the rewards. It is preloaded already with app. 70 Hive from the last crazy fun tournament!

Again I encourage any tournament or streaming report to set @chesspricepool as 5 or 10% beneficiary, because it is the tournament who made the report possible in first place, right?

Round 1

Time Mode: 4+2 (4 minutes per game, 2 sec. increment), 70 min.arena

Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/8uYXPNxi

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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 (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. 70% of all Hivechess-related post rewards go to the price pool (PP). The tournament winner will get 25 Hive, the runner-up 20 and the third 10 Hive bonus. 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 out of the 10 rounds is required in order to qualify for the prices.
  • There will be a special price of 5 Hive for the highest performance in relation to the own rating (counted by averaging the rating after the first and the last round, if at least 6 rounds are played).
  • There will be a special price of 5 Hive for the highest gain in rating points during the course of the season (if at least 6 rounds are played).
  • 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 all on Friday and good luck!

! [Mention List]
Potentially of interest to:
@aakrist @abimbola753 @agreste @ajumaa @alberto0607 @alexmag1988 @almightymelon @alpha @ambarvegas @anadello @andzhi @anli @anomadsoul @apy @arsenal49 @artistparthoroy @astrolabio @awesomeintrigue @b0s @behiver @beyondhorizonmm @bitsignal @burnoutawesome @camiloferrua @cerati @chessbrotherspro @chesthetica @clixmoney @cryptogee @cryptoniusraptor @cryptoph0823 @darruiz @diegofitness92 @digitalis @ebingo @eliaschess333 @elprofe62 @emeka4 @eniolw @eenriquerivas @evgsk @fairy-of-comfort @fcastro177 @fiona777 @flaws @foxconnmars @franciscomarval @franu @gabotask @giacomone @gingerbyna @grafo07 @hannes-stoffel @heimindanger @herz-ass @hierro21 @hirohurl @hivetrader @iamchessguy @iammanythings1 @ibizaki @iceblue @iobates @ironshield @jaki01 @jesusmgl1995 @jesustiano @jkms @johannfrare @josesmoke @juanmi96 @justfavour @kaungsett8388 @kintokris @kreur @levitant @lighteye @lofone @lucianosky @maciejficek @maestroask @marcusantoniu26 @mario89 @masterswatch @maverieux000 @meedo @mrsarri @mstafford @mypathtofire @nftland1989 @nikoszzz @officialrosh1 @omonomo @orlanzavala @oshiokhenhoya @pamboy27 @parung76 @perpz @petreius @philipp87 @pokerarema @pravesh0 @primersion @ptmaker @rafaelaquino @renerondon @rexplanet @rheda @rodrook @ropavejero @rosmarly @salomijale @samostically @sanjamkapoors @sawko @schamangerbert @schnitte @soluce07 @solymi @spacetoon @steamloled @steemychicken1 @stranger27 @syndmitrij @the01crow @thedoc07 @therealflaws @timofey @tin.aung.soe @tony1294 @tungphong @uliseshb @vaipraonde @vasigo @victorbch2 @vjap55 @volkiceper @walner @wegflexor @xoflox @yazp @zacherybinx @ziabutt3836
(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)

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PS:
Why I said in the description "the only real play-to-earn game on Hive"?
Because in this event you can´t improve your chances buy buying stuff! Just skill (and a little luck) count! So therefore keep practicing!

PPS:
And on Sunday again there is the WOO/PIZZA tournament organized by @cryptoniusraptor! Don´t miss out!
https://lichess.org/tournament/h2MRpkPf



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woo, I have been waiting so long for this season. I haven't trained enough during the break, but hopefully losing one or two times will increase my desire to get better and train more :)

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Well my guess is that im gonna play just for the fun of it XD lets see if you don't crush me down so badly.

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Thanks for the great prize. Looking forward to the new season!

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Yes!!I can't wait to be a part if this season's competition. My lichess account name is timix648

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Ready, this time I will try harder 😅.

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My name on here is @artsbreezy01,
I’ll like to join the tournament as I have register on lichess . What’s next ?

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Congratulations @stayoutoftherz! You received a personal badge!

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I'll try to be there thanks 👍

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So we are back.
However most likely I wont be able to participate in Friday tournaments.
Lets see how it goes.

Have fun all.

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I hope the torunament time is Asia friendly or better yet organized tournament based on Asia Time Zone

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I can see a parallel afternoon series (Asian friendly) if there are people interested.

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A romantic Friday night is coming! Don't pay a registeration fee for Season 15?👌
!PIZZA

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Congratulations @stayoutoftherz! You received a personal badge!

You powered-up at least 1000 HP on Hive Power Up Day and got the biggest Power-Bee!
See you at the next Power Up day to see if you will repeat this feat.
May the Hive Power be with you!

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You can count me in!

Are we playing normal chess this time?

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Yes, if it is not explicitely mentioned, it is the classical variant.

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The only real play-to-earn game on Hive! Absolutely true!

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Jetzt bin ich endlich in der Lichess T´Gruppe drin, und hoffe iuch finde die Zeit morgen zu spielen. Ich muss leider ab 22:00 in die Spätschicht.
!hiqvote

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Interesting...I could make a chess app for hive only. But to be honest I haven't seen much interest...

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Why would you do that?

Honest question. What's the value?

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If we increase the tournament field and grow the chess & hive community then all is good...

I have a new Vitamin and exercise routine, absent some big blunders I should finish in the top field this season :).

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I just created a lichess account and when I try to join the team I get this error in the password, my lichess acc is Tortyllan

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!hbit

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Hi @stayoutoftherz,

may I ask, can I still join or should I wait for the next one? Will you organize different ones, too in the coming weeks? Read 8-10 posts, but few things are not clear. How many rounds do you usually have (7?) in a serie ? do you play always on Fridays, if not which other days? is it correct in Lichess, that usually it lasts just for 1 hour?

thx

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You can definitely join this one still. The season goes over 10 rounds, this Friday the 2nd will be played, it is always a Friday. Yes, normally it lasts 60 to 70 minutes.
I will send out the link to the tournament tomorrow. But you can find it already on the Lichess team page 😃.

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thx, i found it, joined, looking forward to play it!

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I'm not a chess player myself but I just tried one play in lichess and I won it and it motivates me to join the tournament.

I have some questions about the tournament.

  1. How many rounds there'll be for the season?
  2. How do I check the time mode in my time zone? It looks confusing.

Thanks.

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10 weeks, each Friday one tournament, last Friday was the first one, in 2 days is the next one. Check this link, it shows the start of round 2 in your local time. You may first join our team in Lichess.

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Nice, I'll first join the team then.
Thanks for the reply.

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