Dear chess fans!
Round 10 of season 20 is played tomorrow Friday, 04th Apr 2025, at the usual time, but please double check your local time, as in Europe there was the shift to summer time!
The current standings after 9 rounds you can find here.
Back to some good old 3+2 Blitz action!
Mode: 3+2 (3 minutes per game, 2 sec. increment), 70 min arena tournament
Tournament link: https://lichess.org/tournament/UF0BsWE2
The prize pool contains already 1157 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 12 rounds are summed up. 60% of all Hivechess-related post rewards go to the prize pool (PP). Each of the 3 rating-tiered tournament winners will get "x" Hive (at least 50), 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 (50%) and the number of rounds played (50%). In order to qualify for a prize you have to participate in at least six of the 12 rounds!
- If I don´t know your Hive username, you won´t be considered for prizes, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments!
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:
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(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)
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On another note, the 2025 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship match has started in Shanghai!
The current Women's World Chess Champion, GM Ju Wenjun, is facing off against the challenger, GM Tan Zhongyi, in 12 games of classical chess.
You can follow the match e.g. on lichess:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-womens-world-chess-championship-2025/shanghai--game-1/Ao99TiHo