Wow, we are in round 10 of the Saturday HiveChess Tournament already?? Tbh, I felt bad for not being able to participate in the past 3 rounds. I have been away from Hive and also Chess because of my exams and also sickness but I am good now. Oh, and great news, I AM A GRADUATE engineer now. I will write a post about that later, let's focus on chess now.
So, we had another interesting round of Chess yesterday!
I was fortunate to be in the leaderboard even if my points were quite low compared to the bigger boys. It still felt really goodd. I was able to amass a total of 14 points and secured 7th place.
Here's how the final leaderboard looked:
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🥇 Odnoobraz_bcm– 52 points (absolute beast mode!)@maestroask
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🥈jaki01– 37 points @jaki01
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🥉 Tangible_ay – 25 points @tangibleay
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As usual, let's highlight some of the games that are quite interesting and we could learn from 👇🏼
Yesterday's Game Highlights and Analysis
JUSTOLA VS TANGIBLE_AY
I and Tangible_ay have played a total of 3 games together, and this is the first time I've won by checkmate. It was truly an amazing game. Let's look through it. Black berserked White and started off playing quite well, but at some point his position began to weaken, which is expected, since Black berserked while playing the Chess960 variant, a format that takes you out of your usual playbook. White missed a lot of checkmate sequences but was able to force a resign from black.
Lets watch the gif:
https://lichess1.org/game/export/gif/white/OkOywaca.gif?theme=brown&piece=cburnett
Game Link: https://lichess.org/OkOywaca
This is the PGN file of the game:
[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R10 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/OkOywaca"] [Date "2025.09.06"] [White "Just_ola"] [Black "Tangible_ay"] [Result "1-0"] [GameId "OkOywaca"] [UTCDate "2025.09.06"] [UTCTime "15:40:53"] [WhiteElo "1501"] [BlackElo "1947"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+38"] [BlackRatingDiff "-29"] [Variant "Chess960"] [TimeControl "300+0"] [ECO "?"] [Opening "?"] [Termination "Normal"] [FEN "bnqbrnkr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BNQBRNKR w KQkq - 0 1"] [SetUp "1"]
- e4 e5 2. b3 Bf6 3. Nc3 Ne6 4. Bg4 O-O 5. Ne3 Nc6 6. Ned5 Qd8 7. d3 Ncd4 8. Re3 c6 9. Nxf6+ Qxf6 10. Ne2 b6 11. Nxd4 exd4 12. Rf3 Qe5 13. c3 c5 14. Rf5 Qc7 15. cxd4 d6 16. d5 Nd8 17. Rg5 f6 18. Rh5 Bb7 19. Rh3 Bc8 20. Qf4 Bxg4 21. Qxg4 Qf7 22. Rg3 Qe7 23. h4 Kh8 24. h5 h6 25. Rh4 Rg8 26. Qf5 Nf7 27. Rhg4 Ne5 28. Rh4 Qd7 29. Qf4 Ref8 30. d4 cxd4 31. Bxd4 Qe7 32. Qe3 Nf7 33. Rhg4 Ne5 34. Rh4 Qf7 35. f4 Nd7 36. Rhg4 Re8 37. f5 Qxh5 38. Rg6 Ne5 39. Bxe5 Rxe5 40. Rh3 Qd1+ 41. Kh2 Re7 42. Rgxh6+ gxh6 43. Qxh6+ 1-0
JUSTOLA VS JUSTFAVOUR
Lowkey, this game pained me small o. I started off right with my pieces well positioned and defended until a blunder was made. I moved my queen to h4 which was quite a terrible decision. White @justfavour responded by moving his rook to h3 which flipped the table and got the advantage. Black tried to maneuver so the game would end by timer but white was able to deliver an outstanding checkmate ♟ before that could happen. @justfavour, good game bro.
Lets watch the gif:
https://lichess1.org/game/export/gif/black/WnyalFHD.gif?theme=brown&piece=cburnett
Game Link: https://lichess.org/WnyalFHD/black
This is the PGN file:
[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R10 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/WnyalFHD"] [Date "2025.09.06"] [White "justfavour"] [Black "Just_ola"] [Result "1-0"] [GameId "WnyalFHD"] [UTCDate "2025.09.06"] [UTCTime "16:05:17"] [WhiteElo "1584"] [BlackElo "1569"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+17"] [BlackRatingDiff "-17"] [Variant "Chess960"] [TimeControl "300+0"] [ECO "?"] [Opening "?"] [Termination "Normal"] [FEN "rnbbqkrn/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBBQKRN w KQkq - 0 1"] [SetUp "1"]
- d4 Ng6 2. c3 d6 3. Nd2 Bf5 4. Ng3 Bd7 5. Nf3 Bc6 6. Bc2 Nd7 7. Bxg6 hxg6 8. Bf4 Nb6 9. Qc1 Nc4 10. b3 Nb6 11. c4 Nd7 12. d5 Nf6 13. dxc6 Qxc6 14. Be3 Ne4 15. Nxe4 Qxe4 16. Qd2 e6 17. Qd3 Qc6 18. O-O Bf6 19. Bd4 e5 20. Qd2 exd4 21. Nxd4 Bxd4 22. Qxd4 Rh8 23. Rad1 Re8 24. Rd3 Qd7 25. Rg3 Re6 26. Rd1 c5 27. Qd3 Qe7 28. e3 Qf6 29. Rd2 Qh4 30. Rh3 Qf6 31. Rxh8+ Ke7 32. Rh3 g5 33. Rf3 Qg6 34. Qxg6 fxg6 35. h3 g4 36. hxg4 Kd7 37. Rg3 Rf6 38. f3 b6 39. Kf2 g5 40. Rd1 Ke6 41. Rh1 Ke5 42. Rh8 Rf7 43. Re8+ Kf6 44. Rh3 Kg6 45. Rhh8 Kf6 46. Rb8 Kg6 47. Rhd8 Kh7 48. Rxd6 Rc7 49. Rd1 Re7 50. Rc8 Rf7 51. Rc6 Re7 52. Rh1+ Kg8 53. Rc8+ Kf7 54. Rd1 Kf6 55. Rd5 Kg6 56. Rg8 Kf7 57. Rgd8 Kf6 58. R8d6+ Kf7 59. Rxg5 Ke8 60. Rdd5 Kf8 61. f4 Kg8 62. Rd8+ Kh7 63. Rh5+ Kg6 64. f5+ Kf7 65. Rd6 Ke8 66. Kf3 Kf7 67. Kf4 Ke8 68. e4 Kf7 69. e5 Ke8 70. e6 Kf8 71. Rc6 Re8 72. Rh8+ Ke7 73. Rxe8+ Kxe8 74. Ke5 Ke7 75. Rc7+ Kf8 76. Kd6 Kg8 77. e7 Kh7 78. e8=Q Kh6 79. Qh5# 1-0
SOUTHGAMER VS JAKI
LOL, you all need to look at this game. When I watched this game, I kept on shouting 'ahan'. They both mimicked each other moves at the beginning and I just found that quite interesting. Both players, @jaki01 and @southgamer had good position but white made a few blunders that compromised his defense. The game favored black when he took whites queen at e3. White resigned and the game came to an end.
Lets watch the gif:
https://lichess1.org/game/export/gif/black/fgafBZEl.gif?theme=brown&piece=cburnett
Game Link: https://lichess.org/fgafBZEl/black
This is the PGN file:
[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R10 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/fgafBZEl"] [Date "2025.09.06"] [White "jaki01"] [Black "SouthGamer"] [Result "0-1"] [GameId "fgafBZEl"] [UTCDate "2025.09.06"] [UTCTime "15:16:57"] [WhiteElo "1842"] [BlackElo "1778"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-55"] [BlackRatingDiff "+29"] [Variant "Chess960"] [TimeControl "300+0"] [ECO "?"] [Opening "?"] [Termination "Normal"] [FEN "bqnrnkrb/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/BQNRNKRB w KQkq - 0 1"] [SetUp "1"]
- g3 g6 2. b3 b6 3. Bxh8 Bxh1 4. Rxh1 Rxh8 5. Qb2 Nf6 6. Nf3 Nd6 7. d3 O-O-O 8. e4 Nde8 9. Ne2 Qb7 10. a4 Qc6 11. a5 d6 12. axb6 axb6 13. Ra1 Ng7 14. Ned4 Qc5 15. b4 Qh5 16. Kg2 Ne6 17. Nc6 Kd7 18. Nxd8 Rxd8 19. Ra7 Qg4 20. Qc1 Nh5 21. Qe3 Nef4+ 22. Kf1 Qh3+ 23. Ke1 Ng2+ 24. Ke2 Nxe3 25. Kxe3 e5 26. Rha1 f5 27. R1a6 f4+ 28. Ke2 fxg3 29. hxg3 Nxg3+ 30. fxg3 Qg2+ 31. Kd1 Qxf3+ 32. Kc1 Qe3+ 33. Kb2 Rf8 34. Rxc7+ Kxc7 35. Ra7+ Kc6 36. c4 Qd2+ 37. Kb3 Qxd3+ 38. Ka4 Qc2+ 0-1
Thank you all for the games, it was really fun I won't lie. And thank you @samostically for hosting this tournament.
Saturday HiveChess S1R10 Arena
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