HiveChess: Saturday Showdown (R11)

Hello Chess lovers!

Welcome to the reminder post for the Eleventh round of the HiveChess weekly tournament held on Saturdays. In the 10th round,IM @maestroask won the Chess960 event. @rodrook had a sixth place finish! For more information on the previous round please read;

https://peakd.com/hive-157286/@sam.chess/hivechess-s1r10-summary-winners-afv

This Saturday we go again, Hopefully we can get new players joining us. Feel free to introduce your friends on Hive and even outside Hive. We can onboard them if they love our events.

If you use x, You can retweet or like this promotion.

https://x.com/samostically/status/1966086220426920068?s=46

The chess tournament is held every Saturday, you can check out the Introduction Post for more details

Also using this account, you can check my Reblogs for chess related content. I try to support and reblog them here. Let’s keep creating and interacting with one another!

https://peakd.com/@sam.chess

Next up is in two days 13/09/2025

The Lichess link to join the tournament;

https://lichess.org/tournament/9lZAqogq

Time control: 4+0

As usual, The prize pool for this weekly tournament is 60 Hive with the prize list as follows:

1st - 10 Hive
2nd - 8 Hive
3rd - 7 Hive
4th - 5 Hive
5th - 2.5 Hive
6th - 2.5 Hive
7th - 2.5 Hive
8th - 2.5 Hive
Biggest Upset - 5 Hive
Best U2000 - 5 Hive
Best U1800 - 5 Hive
Best U1500 - 5 Hive

Sandbagging and cheating will lead to disqualification from the tournament and forfeiture of the prize back into the prize pool for the next round.

Also you can only win one prize, If you qualify for two prizes, you win the higher prize. Don’t forget to drop your best games on the report post after the tournament so they can feature on Tuesday’s games showcase post! Players with games showcased share a beneficiary on that post provided you win!

Goodluck Everyone!

Tournament Details

1. We play every Saturday at 15:00 GMT (Time Subjected to Review)

2. We play on an open-source chess application, www.lichess.org

3. To start up on Lichess, kindly read Introduction to Lichess Platform

4. Register with your Lichess username in the comment section if your name is not on the mention list.

5. Total play time is 1 hour and 10 minutes. Time control for the tournament varies with each round.

6. Feel free to write about your tournament experience and post the link in the comment. Quality posts will get curated. Alternatively, you can post on our Discord channel.

7. Join our Team Page on Lichess, to play our team events.

8. For more information about this tournament, Read Introducing A New Hivechess weekly event

Thanks to our main sponsors. Through their support I can onboard, support chess players and run this tournament on Hive!

See You on Saturday!

_{I’d also like to thank everyone who participates, upvotes, reblog and sponsor this weekly event. Thank you very much!}

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_{Want some more chess?
On Friday, There would be a fun chess960 tournament in preparation for the New Hivchess season organized by @stayoutoftherz. For more information see, https://peakd.com/hive-157286/@stayoutoftherz/this-friday-a-hivechess-fun-tournament-is-played-join-and-win-5-hive}

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