HiveChess Arena- Chess Tournament Report Including Games Analysis

Another round of the weekend Hive chess continued yesterday with the Friday's tournament hosted by @stayoutoftherz. The tournament was the 5th round of the Ninth season.

The tournament was registered with 28 players with just two players not playing a single game. Hive user @tungphong, known as Blackswan21 on Lichess won the tournament again! This time finishing with 31 points with a performance of 2370+. Closely followed was the now consistent @jaki01 who came second. @samostically which is myself, with 26 points in the tournament finished 3rd.

In the picture above,we can see that black does better today again, this is now frequently seen in our Hivechess tournaments.

You can check the full tournament games here

Some regular players such as @Vjap55 was absent today.It was good to see Hive users like @anomadsoul , @schmidi play Hivechess today, I hope to see them more in our other tournaments. According to @manncpt in his Hivechess report Post he said;

We have a strong community, we can be proud on it together and invite more Hivians to join us

Congratulations to The winners And everyone who played

I found some interesting games I enjoyed, some which i made some quick Analysis on below and others which i would Analyse In my #Hivechess study during the week. Also I should be doing a game Analysis on my slow chess match against my friend @anli very soon.

Missed the Last Hivechess study?

You can watch the full video here

GAME 1

Lighteye(1701) 1-0 Zgm_samostically(2262)

@lighteye might be 1700+ Rated on Lichess but his chess understanding is really strong! Although he jokes that he always blunder alot while playing...who doesn't?

The game started with 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4

A classical open Sicilian defense,with black using a fianchetto system with 2.g6

Black player made an opening mistake which everyone should take note.

Don't move a piece multiple times in the opening! Develop your other pieces first!

After multiple queen moves black was lost in the position below and made it worse with

move 10.Nxe4?? A Blunder! (Better was 10.d6, where i think black is still worse due to the lack in development)

White played 11.Qd5! Threatening 12.Qxf7

And as you can see,the double threat is hard to stop for black.
Black tried 11.Nd6 but 8 moves later,he resigned. Very well played game by @lighteye as he still required technique and brilliant moves to convert.
Below is the gif and pgn of the game

[Event "Hivechess Tournament S9 R5 Arena"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/ynhBhxz6"]
[Date "2021.11.26"]
[Round "?"]
[White "lighteye"]
[Black "ZGM_Samostically"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1701"]
[BlackElo "2262"]
[ECO "B27"]
[TimeControl "360+0"]
[UTCDate "2021.11.26"]
[UTCTime "20:39:02"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "+12"]
[BlackRatingDiff "-11"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[Opening "Sicilian Defense: Hyperaccelerated Fianchetto"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Source "Analyze This App"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Bg7 5. Bc4 Qb6 6. Nb5 a6 7. Be3 Qa5+ 8. 
N5c3 Nf6 9. O-O Qb4 10. Bb3 Nxe4 11. Qd5 Nd6 12. Bc5 Qf4 13. Bxd6 exd6 14. Re1+ 
Kf8 15. Nd2 Nc6 16. Re4 Qf6 17. Rae1 Ne5 18. Nc4 g5 19. Nxd6 1-0

GAME 2

Eliaschess333(1957) vs Petreius(1970)

@eliaschess333 is one strong player that isn't often talked about, maybe because he plays very few events or maybe because of his ratings. This game was was a Grunfeld defense main line. (The Grunfeld defense is my favourite line,just behind my pet Scotch)

After move 3.Nc3 g6. We have a Grunfeld as shown below.

The opening was played well by both sides and it looked liked it was going to be a tough one,till yet again another important moment. White played a tricky 11.Ng5

As in the above picture, the f7 square for black looks sad,as three of white pieces are attacking it and there are just two defenders. But it isn't so bad right? Because an e-pawn move gives the black an extra protection via the queen on c7.

But black played 11.e6?! (11.e5, I think would be have been a better move)

The difference between those pawn moves was shown below after 12.h3! Now the bishop doesn't have escape squares and black was forced to play 12.h6

Image after 12.h3 h6

After a brilliant 13.Nxf7 trade initiation, white ended up two pawns up.
@petreius with the black pieces did his best to hold the position and avoided exchanges,but this could only lead to a checkmate blunder as on move 23 after white played Qc1 black played Qf6??

white to play and win

Here is the full game and pgn

[Event "Hivechess Tournament S9 R5 Arena"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/pUvSYw6D"]
[Date "2021.11.26"]
[White "eliaschess333"]
[Black "petreius"]
[Result "1-0"]
[UTCDate "2021.11.26"]
[UTCTime "20:42:21"]
[WhiteElo "1957"]
[BlackElo "1970"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "+6"]
[BlackRatingDiff "-6"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "360+0"]
[ECO "D85"]
[Opening "Grünfeld Defense: Exchange Variation, Modern Exchange Variation"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d5 3. Nc3 g6 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Nf3 { D85 Grünfeld Defense: Exchange Variation, Modern Exchange Variation } O-O 8. Bc4 c5 9. O-O Qc7 10. Qb3 Bg4 11. Ng5 e6 12. h3 h6 13. Nxf7 Rxf7 14. hxg4 Re7 15. Bxe6+ Kh7 16. d5 c4 17. Qc2 Nd7 18. Be3 Ne5 19. Bf4 Nf3+ 20. gxf3 Qxf4 21. Kg2 Be5 22. Rh1 Rg7 23. Qc1 Qf6 24. Qxh6# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0

In Conclusion...

It was a very interesting tournament and I feel happy when i see consistency in chess players. I'm happy we have active chess contents creator in our community and also we have chess players supporting each other. Thanks to @stayoutoftherz for promoting this event.

I did stream most part of the event and i have the video uploaded in my previous post but here is the direct link to the video on @threespeak

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Please do let me know if you don't want to get mentions/tagged in my report.
Images and Screenshots Used in this article are mine except stated otherwise