Saturday Hivechess Showdown! (S2R6)

3 months ago (Edited)

Hello Chess lovers!

Welcome to the reminder post for the Sixth round of the HiveChess weekly tournament, held every Saturday. I apologize for the late reminder, everything still stays the same.

In round 5, Our International Master reclaimed first place and showed strength.
For more information on the previous round please read;

https://peakd.com/hive-157286/@sam.chess/hivechess-s2r5-recap-and-winners

Also, I did a video to explain how to proceed in the middle game. You can check here.

https://peakd.com/hive-157286/@sam.chess/61f373cb

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 28/02/2026

The Lichess link to join the tournament;

https://lichess.org/tournament/acytbEJG

Time control: 3+0

Prizes

The prize pool for this weekly tournament is 80 Hive with the prize list as follows:

Placements

1st – 15 HIVE
2nd – 13 HIVE
3rd – 9 HIVE
4th – 7 HIVE
5th–10th – 3.5 HIVE each

Rating Prizes

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.

Goodluck Everyone!

Tournament Details

We play every Saturday at 15:00 GMT (Time Subjected to Review)
We play on an open-source chess application, www.lichess.org
To start up on Lichess, kindly read Introduction to Lichess Platform
Register with your Lichess username in the comment section if your name is not on the mention list.
Total play time is 1 hour and 10 minutes. Time control for the tournament varies with each round.
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.
Join our Team Page on Lichess, to play and see our events. (Password is Hive)
For more information about this tournament, Read Introducing A New Hivechess weekly event

Thanks to our Main sponsors

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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