Dear chess friends!
Since @schamangerbert keeps the Steemchess tournaments on the Steem Chain, why not run on the Hive Chain a separate weekly Blitz chess tournament?
All players from Steemchess are of course welcome, this is not a competition to Steemchess, but an added opportunity to play more chess (one can not play enough chess, right?)!
This logo I made from scratch (using the free Hive wallpaper (can´t find a link now)) but if you have a good idea for a better one, put it in the comments, I would give out 3 Hive Token and 3 PATRIOT Token (worth app. 1 Steem each) to the most convincing design!
Each round is a lichess one hour tournament, so you need a lichess-account in order to participate! Registration is done in no time (you just need a valid email address for verification).
Here I will add the link to the tournament 1 hour before the start:
Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/jC5LxBbd
Time difference from Greenwich Mean Time GMT 20.00
(Let me know in comments, if you want a different day).
| New York, Venezuela | −4 hours | 16pm |
| UTC, GMT, Reykjavik, Bamako, Freetown | 0 | 20.00 |
| London | 1 | 21.00 |
| Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Nigeria, Vienna | +2 hours | 22.00 |
| Athens | +3 hours | 23.00 |
| Istanbul, Moscow | +4 hours | 24.00 |
GMT time converter: https://time.is/en/GMT
RULES
- Free for players of all skill levels, from newbie to expert!
- Every Friday 20 to 21 GMT is one round, the tournament goes over several rounds
- Time mode for now is 5+0 (so you have 5 minutes per game!), rated, berserking allowed
- The tournament is open (for all, not only Hivers or Steemians)
- 90% of the payouts of my Hive chess-related posts will be added to the price pool and shared among the players who are on Steem or Hive, final decision on the exact mode will be posted later - ideas/suggestions are more than welcome!
- The rules may adapt depending on your feedback, let´s see how it evolves
I would really appreciate, if you could share this announcement among your (chess) friends and colleagues!
The more participate, the more fun!
And don´t forget, chess is so easy! All you have to do is:
"Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician, and the endgame like a machine."
(quote from Rudolf Spielmann(*1883–†1942), Austrian chess master)
potentially of interest for
@anadello @anli @bitsignal @cerati @chesthetica @elprofe62 @eniolw @evgsk @foxconnmars @jaki01 @jkms @juanmi96 @kintokris @marcusantoniu26 @maciejficek @meedo @mstafford @pereu4ivatel @rafaelaquino @renerondon @rodrook @samostically @schamangerbert @the01crow @walner
