HiveChess: Saturday Showdown (R13) & Friday Event Begins!

@sam.chess · 2025-09-25 16:11 · The Chess Community

Hive_Chess_Weekly_Tournament_Banner_RED.png Hello Chess lovers!


Welcome to the reminder post for the thirteenth round of the HiveChess weekly tournament, held every Saturday.

First, some good news the Friday HiveChess tournament hosted by @stayoutoftherz is back! It starts this upcoming Friday. For more details, please check out the post here:

https://peakd.com/hive-157286/@stayoutoftherz/finally-hivechess-season-21-is-starting-this-friday

Additionally, 15% of the post rewards go to @chesspricepool. You can also set @chesspricepool as a beneficiary for your sam.chess related articles to receive more upvotes and help grow the pool for the Friday event.


In round 12 of this event, We had @mendelito finishing 1st for the first time after a spectacular run. For more information on the previous round please read;

https://peakd.com/hive-157286/@sam.chess/hivechess-s1r12-summary-winners-4wz

This chess tournament is held every Saturday and is hosted by me @samostically, 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 27/09/2025

The Lichess link to join the tournament;

https://lichess.org/tournament/ASFV4THj

Time control: 5+0

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As usual, The prize pool for this weekly tournament is 60 Hive with the new 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 9th - 2.5 Hive 10th - 2.5 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!

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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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