Hello Chess players on Hive,

Few hours ago we played the third round of the weekly Saturday HiveChess Tournament. We had a total of 30 players who clicked to join the event and about 29 players who actually played a game. A better number than last week!

Congratulations to IM @maestroask for winning the tournament for the second time in a row. Also for the second time in a row completing a 100% win rate! @tangibleay made a podium finish for the first time finishing third while @poseout87 maintained his stay on the podium by finishing second.

Here is a table of the top 8 players.

Table of the Top 8 Players

Prizes

1st - 10 Hive - IM @maestroask
2nd - 8 Hive - @poseout87
3rd - 7 Hive - @tangibleay
4th - 5 Hive - IM @tenny-trigah
5th - 2.5 Hive - @chessdev17
6th - 2.5 Hive - @dalods
7th - 2.5 Hive - @jaki01
8th - 2.5 Hive - IM @stuffings

Biggest Upset - 5 Hive @dadapizza (753) for his game against @darruiz (1559)

U2000 - 5 Hive - @justfavour
U1800 - 5 Hive - @ajedrezclub2t
U1500 - 5 Hive - @rodrook

Ratings used for the prizes are players initial rating at the start of the tournament

Thanks to everyone that played. If you're new, please read the tournament information below to get started.

Tournament Details

1. We play every Saturday at 15:00 GMT

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

3. To start up on Lichess, kindly read @samostically's 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. It is important to know that the Hive Saturday Chess Saturday was started by @schamangerbert

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

10. Thanks to our Main sponsors @stayoutoftherz, @eddiespino through the aliento project & @yabapmatt!

In two days, we will write an article featuring brilliant games played in the event. Feel free to share lichess links to your games if you feel they are brilliant enough to be featured. The rewards from that post will be shared with players whose games are used.

See You Next Week Saturday!

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Don't forget to join us later today for our team event battle in Liga, Here is the link to join: https://lichess.org/tournament/jxH7eat3