The Hiveans Battle: Saturday HiveChess S1R12 Arena
So, we had another interesting round of Chess today! 💃💃💃
I was initially hot and climbing the leaderboards then somehow my rank began to decline. Well its chess, it happens, LOL.
Okay, let's stop crying over spilt milk and dive into a quick review and analysis of how this interesting tournament went.
Here's how the final leaderboard looked:
🥇 TheMadman4rmDaSouth– 38 points
🥈queen5layer– 32 points
🥉 stuffings– 31 points
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As usual, let's highlight some of the games that are quite interesting and we could learn from 👇🏼
Todays Game Highlights and Analysis
JUSTOLA VS JAKI
I and @jaki01 have played a total of 3 games together, and this is the first time I've won. It was truly an amazing game. Let's look through it. White kicked off with the Opening: Nimzowitsch Defense
Black berserked White and started off playing quite well. In fact, I was confused when he made a certain move and wasn't sure how to respond, the move was Knight c3 to Knight b4. I paused and taught for a second beacuse I knew a wrong move would accelerate my downfall. Lets see the move made:
The game came to end after minutes of circling round the board and white won won by timer. It was a close one because of the time constraint on blacks end.
Lets watch the gif:
https://lichess1.org/game/export/gif/white/dz1UfK4w.gif?theme=brown&piece=cburnett
Game Link: https://lichess.org/dz1UfK4w
This is the PGN file of the game:
[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R12 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/dz1UfK4w"] [Date "2025.09.20"] [White "Just_ola"] [Black "jaki01"] [Result "1-0"] [GameId "dz1UfK4w"] [UTCDate "2025.09.20"] [UTCTime "15:22:40"] [WhiteElo "1880"] [BlackElo "2310"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+16"] [BlackRatingDiff "-10"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "B00"] [Opening "Nimzowitsch Defense"] [Termination "Time forfeit"]
- e4 Nc6 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nge2 d5 4. Ng3 d4 5. Nce2 d3 6. Nc3 Nb4 7. cxd3 Nxd3+ 8. Bxd3 Qxd3 9. Qe2 Qxe2+ 10. Ngxe2 e5 11. O-O Bc5 12. Na4 Bd6 13. b3 Bd7 14. Nac3 Bc6 15. f3 O-O-O 16. Rd1 Bc5+ 17. Kh1 h5 18. Na4 Bf2 19. Bb2 Rhe8 20. d4 exd4 21. Nxd4 Bd7 22. Nc5 b6 23. Na6 Kb7 24. Nb4 c5 25. Rd2 Bxd4 26. Bxd4 cxd4 27. Rxd4 a5 28. Nd3 Bb5 29. Rxd8 Rxd8 30. Ne5 Be8 31. h3 Rd2 32. Kh2 h4 33. Nc4 Re2 34. e5 Nh5 35. Nd6+ Kc6 36. Nxe8 Ng3 37. Nxg7 Kd5 38. f4 Ke4 39. Nh5 Nf5 40. Rf1 Ne3 41. Rg1 Rxa2 42. Kh1 b5 43. g3 hxg3 44. Nxg3+ Kf3 45. Nf1 Nxf1 46. Rxf1+ Kg3 47. Rg1+ Kxh3 48. Rb1 Rh2+ 49. Kg1 Rg2+ 50. Kf1 Rh2 51. Re1 Rh1+ 52. Ke2 Rxe1+ 53. Kxe1 a4 54. Kd1 1-0
JUSTOLA VS JUSTFAVOUR
@justfavour , a rematch is due, LOL.
So, I (black) beserked knowing fully well I was going up with a good player. Well, you gats risk it all sometimes.
So, time caught up on black and was unable to outwit his opponent in that time constraint and white won beautifully.
Lets watch the gif:
https://lichess1.org/game/export/gif/black/DlWCPwQu.gif?theme=brown&piece=cburnett
Game Link: https://lichess.org/WnyalFHD/black
This is the PGN file:
[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R12 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/DlWCPwQu"] [Date "2025.09.20"] [White "justfavour"] [Black "Just_ola"] [Result "1-0"] [GameId "DlWCPwQu"] [UTCDate "2025.09.20"] [UTCTime "15:57:30"] [WhiteElo "1851"] [BlackElo "1883"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+7"] [BlackRatingDiff "-9"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "B01"] [Opening "Scandinavian Defense: Modern Variation"] [Termination "Time forfeit"]
- e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. d3 Nbd7 4. a3 Nb6 5. Nc3 g6 6. h3 Bg7 7. Nf3 Nfxd5 8. Nxd5 Nxd5 9. d4 Nb6 10. c3 O-O 11. Be3 Bd7 12. Be2 Ba4 13. Qc1 Bc6 14. O-O Nd5 15. Ne1 Nxe3 16. Qxe3 e6 17. Bf3 Bd7 18. Nd3 Rb8 19. Ne5 Be8 20. Nd3 f6 21. Be2 Bd7 22. Ne1 Re8 23. Qd2 Qe7 24. Nf3 Qf8 25. Bc4 Bh6 26. Qd1 b5 27. Bb3 Kg7 28. Re1 Qf7 29. Rb1 Rb7 30. Bc2 g5 31. Nd2 Re7 32. Be4 Rb8 33. Bd3 Rbe8 34. Ne4 Bc6 35. Nc5 f5 36. Qe2 g4 37. Bxb5 Bxb5 38. Qxb5 Qf6 39. Qe2 gxh3 40. Qe5 Qxe5 41. Rxe5 hxg2 42. Kxg2 Bg5 43. Rg1 Kh6 44. Re2 f4 45. f3 Rg8 46. Kf1 Reg7 47. Reg2 Bf6 48. Nxe6 Rxg2 49. Rxg2 Rxg2 50. Kxg2 Kg6 51. Nxf4+ Kf5 52. Nd3 c6 53. Kg3 Ke6 54. f4 Kd5 55. Kf3 Be7 56. Ne5 Bd6 57. Ke3 c5 58. Kd3 c4+ 59. Ke3 a5 60. Kf3 a4 61. Kg4 Bc7 62. Kf5 Bxe5 63. dxe5 Kc5 64. e6 Kd5 65. Kf6 Ke4 66. e7 Kd3 67. e8=Q Kc2 68. Qxa4+ Kxb2 69. Qxc4 Kxa3 70. Qb4+ Ka2 71. c4 Ka1 72. c5 1-0
THEMADMAN4RMDASOUTH VS STUFFINGS
I like to always learn from what the best is doing. I looked through the leaderboard and decided to pick a game he won with a strong opponent. White played the Queen's Pawn Game: Stonewall Attack. Something sweet happened, white played classical bishop sacrifice which is a typical sacrifice of a bishop by White playing Bxh7+. It rapidly changed the game and white won beautifully with a checkmate.
Lets watch the gif:
https://lichess1.org/game/export/gif/white/ioIxWTtm.gif?theme=brown&piece=cburnett
Game Link: https://lichess.org/ioIxWTtm
This is the PGN file:
[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R12 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/ioIxWTtm"] [Date "2025.09.20"] [White "TheMadman4rmDaSouth"] [Black "stuffings"] [Result "1-0"] [GameId "ioIxWTtm"] [UTCDate "2025.09.20"] [UTCTime "15:56:43"] [WhiteElo "2181"] [BlackElo "2320"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+10"] [BlackRatingDiff "-8"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "D00"] [Opening "Queen's Pawn Game: Stonewall Attack"] [Termination "Normal"]
- d4 Nf6 2. e3 d5 3. Bd3 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. h3 e6 6. f4 Bd6 7. Nd2 O-O 8. Ngf3 Re8 9. O-O Qc7 10. Ne5 Ne7 11. g4 b6 12. g5 Nd7 13. Bxh7+ Kf8 14. Qh5 Bxe5 15. fxe5 Nf5 16. Bxf5 exf5 17. Rxf5 g6 18. Qxg6 Nxe5 19. Qh6+ Kg8 20. dxe5 Bxf5 21. Nf3 Re6 22. Qh4 Rae8 23. Bd2 Be4 24. Rf1 Kg7 25. Qf4 Rh8 26. Nh4 Qxe5 27. Qxf7# 1-0
Thank you all for the games, it was really fun I won't lie. And thank you @samostically for hosting this tournament.
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STOP@ecency the visual markdown seems to have a bug 😪
All my editing didn't reflect after posting. Mostly centering.
Please have the devs look at the functionality🙏🏼
P.S. I love the new text color and emoji feature added 👍🏼
Sorry for inconvenience! Can you tell us more, what browser are you using and what exactly not respected after publishing centering text or photos, all details help us detect and fix issues?!
Thank you for responding .
it's the web version of Ecency I made use of to publish my Post on hive, specifically Google chrome browser.
Everything works except alignment. Trying to center text and images doesn't work after publishing.
Is there any other detail you need to detect the problem and fix the bug?
I'd be happy to help by providing every detail needed.
Thank you so much again for responding. 👍🏾
I will send a picture of what I actually expected. Give me few minutes please
@ecency, I was expecting it to look like this after publishing
Congratulations to the winners and to everyone who was able to participate in the tournament. I really appreciate your post and will review the games you've shared with us. I wonder how many members of the community are not familiar with the algebraic notation system used in chess games. I know some posts have been shared that teach it, which is so essential for sharing games and instructive exercises across all three phases of chess—openings and defenses, the middlegame, and the endgame. It brings me great satisfaction that we have this community where we learn and connect as lovers of the Science Game.
Thank you so much for your engagement and support !
Yeah, not a lot of people are familiar with the algebraic notation system in chess, took me a while to also understand it as a child
Thank youuu, hope you enjoy reviewing the games
You're welcome my friend. The Chess is very important for me and many people. Thank you so much for your posts.
You're welcome,
Thank you 🤗
i wanted to berserk you sef. Somehow, I forgot to press the button.
See you on Saturday, bro.😂
Lol, don't forget next week
Good games bro 💯