REMINDER, Chess Brothers League Season 3 "Master Sacrifice" - Announcement of Round 8

Dear chess friends!

The countdown is on! The 7th round of the Master Sacrifice league was played and with this the leaderboard starts to define its possible destiny. This round was one of the strongest in terms of "performance" as the average ranking was 2073 points but this is also due to the absence of several players as this time 18 players were present.

We had a new winner, @kintokris won the tournament with an excellent score and with this he moved up a step in the results table. @eniolw in second place and maintains the lead in the overall standings. @jesusmgl1995 is still going strong and continues with excellent performances in the Hive Chess leagues.

You can see the whole results of this round in this report.

Momentos

@lighteye vs @jesusmgl1995

@lighteye with white pieces has a totally winning position against an opponent that surpasses him in rating. Perhaps the time pressure affected him because there is no other explanation. The position is winning and there is no weakness for Black to exploit. However, White concludes with a perpetual check.

@emichesmaster vs @fjcr

The position is somewhat uncomfortable because of the space disadvantage. We have already seen emichesmaster drive this type of structure with white pieces and he knows how to take advantage of it quite well.

In a desperate attempt to free himself Black plays a typical but inaccurate reaction at this point. Black's move e5 leads to the loss of a pawn and worse the transition to a completely lost ending. It was better to continue playing passively with the move b6 and try to develop the queenside.

(To see more details about this round and the complete leaderboard, please visit our weekly report).

If you haven't heard about the Chess Brothers League Season 3 yet, please take a look at this post.

Announcement and Rules of Round 8

1. It will take place on Lichess.org.

1. Join the Chess Brothers team.
2. Date and time: Sunday, March 06 at 19 GMT.
3. Format and time control: As we said in the league rules, the pairing system and time control of the tournaments will be defined by the community. You must vote for the TC and format you prefer. The poll is now open through Dpoll. Visit this Poll to participate in the voting. On Saturday 2022/03/05 the winning choice will be announced via an update on this post. We would like to know your opinion. Please vote!
4. The scoring system is the Lighteye system. Please take a look at this post to see all the details about it.
5. The link to the tournament will be placed in this post after the poll mentioned in point 4 has finished.

UPDATE

The winner of the poll is Swiss 3+2

Tournament LINK https://lichess.org/swiss/9FH03hyI

As always, we extend our invitation to the following players:
@aakrist, @abimbola753, @agreste, @alan8a, @alberto0607, @alberto0607, @alexmag1988, @almightymelon, @ambarvegas, @amirl, @anli, @anomadsoul, @apy, @arsenal49, @behiver, @bitsignal, @burnoutawesome, @cerati, @chacald.dcymt, @chesthetica, @cocacolaron, @cryptoniusraptor, @cryptoph0823, @darruiz, @diegofitness92, @digitalis, @ebingo, @eenriquerivas, @eliaschess333, @elprofe62, @emic, @eniolw, @evgsk, @fjcr, @flaws, @foxconnmars, @franciscomarval, @gabotask, @giacomone, @gingerbyna, @gravitcaper, @heimindanger, @hierro21, @hirohurl, @hive-129589, @iceblue, @iobates, @jaki01, @jkms, @johannesboldt, @juanmi96, @kintokris, @kreur, @lighteye, @lucianosky, @maciejficek, @manncpt, @manuel6, @marcusantoniu26, @masterswatch, @maverieux000, @meedo, @mrsarri, @mstafford, @nerdvana, @nftland1989, @orlanzavala, @oshiokhenhoya, @pamboy27, @parung76, @pereu4ivatel, @perpz, @petreius, @rafaelaquino, @renerondon, @rexplanet, @rodrook, @ropavejero, @rosmarly, @samostically, @sawko, @schamangerbert, @soluce07, @spacetoon, @stayoutoftherz, @the01crow, @tony1294, @tungphong, @uliseshb, @vasigo, @vjap55, @walner, @wildthougts, @xoflox, @yazp, @zacherybinx, @ziabutt3836

⚠️ Note: If you want to be included in this list, let us know in the comments and if, on the contrary, you don't want to be mentioned, you can let us know and we will remove you from it.

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