I Got the Sixth Place: Saturday HiveChess Arena Round 20 ⚔️♟️

Greeting Hiveans and Chess Community

Yesterdays Saturday Hive Chess Tournament was pretty great. It was able to make up for my blunders on Friday's Tournament 😹.

I was able to secure the 6th place in the leaderboard 🚀 with 22 points.✨💫

Final Leaderboard

Here's how the final leaderboard looked:

Position	Player	Points
🥇	eniolw	49
🥈	Lavidacontinua123	33
🥉	jaki01	32

Game Highlights and In-Depth Analysis

♜ JUST_OLA VS TANGIBLE_AY

My first +4 points was from my game with tangible_ay. It was a pretty interesting game. White opened with the Sicilian Defense: Closed and both sides began to develop insanely. What gave White the advantage was blacks blunder at move 31, his Rook was lost after a fork by Whites Knight. Both sides promoted a pawn to a queen but White had more pieces and position advantage so it led to Blacks defeat and White won the round.

Game Link

[Event "Saturday HiveChess S2R20 Arena"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/fc8Gkz02"]
[Date "2026.06.06"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Just_ola"]
[Black "Tangible_ay"]
[Result "1-0"]
[GameId "fc8Gkz02"]
[UTCDate "2026.06.06"]
[UTCTime "15:11:19"]
[WhiteElo "1741"]
[BlackElo "2089"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "+12"]
[BlackRatingDiff "-10"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "180+0"]
[ECO "B23"]
[Opening "Sicilian Defense: Closed"]
[Termination "Normal"]

e4 c5 2. Nc3 g6 3. d3 Bg7 4. Nge2 Nc6 5. Ng3 h5 6. h4 e6 7. Be2 Bf6 8. Be3 d6 9. Bf3 Bxh4 10. Nge2 Bg5 11. Qd2 Bxe3 12. Qxe3 Nge7 13. g4 h4 14. Nf4 Nd4 15. Bd1 Nec6 16. Nce2 Bd7 17. c3 Nxe2 18. Qxe2 Qf6 19. Nh3 O-O-O 20. g5 Qe7 21. Ba4 f5 22. O-O-O Ne5 23. d4 Bxa4 24. b3 cxd4 25. cxd4 Bc6 26. dxe5 dxe5 27. Kb2 Bxe4 28. Rc1+ Kb8 29. f3 Bc6 30. Qxe5+ Ka8 31. Nf4 Bxf3 32. Nxg6 Qe8 33. Nxh8 Bxh1 34. Rxh1 Qxh8 35. Qf6 Qxf6+ 36. gxf6 Rh8 37. f7 Kb8 38. Rxh4 Rf8 39. Rh6 f4 40. Rxe6 f3 41. Re8+ Kc7 42. Rxf8 f2 43. Re8 f1=Q 44. f8=Q Qg2+ 45. Ka3 Qc6 46. Re7+ Kb6 47. Qf2+ Ka6 48. Qe2+ b5 49. Re6 Kb6 50. Rxc6+ Kxc6 51. Qe6+ Kc5 52. Qe7+ Kb6 53. b4 a5 54. Qc5+ Kb7 55. Qxb5+ Ka7 56. bxa5 Ka8 57. a6 Ka7 58. Qb7# 1-0

♜ HAZEM91TN VS ODIC30

I decided to review a game by our newest player in the blockchain team. I have seen this player in a few games and he is pretty good. He won against odic30 who often gives me a hard time 😹. I looked at their game and the blunder from both sides was quite a lot. Odic30 lost due to time constraint coupling with a bad position.

Game Link

[Event "Saturday HiveChess S2R20 Arena"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/lpT7aL9j"]
[Date "2026.06.06"]
[Round "-"]
[White "odic3o"]
[Black "hazem91tn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[GameId "lpT7aL9j"]
[UTCDate "2026.06.06"]
[UTCTime "15:45:54"]
[WhiteElo "1761"]
[BlackElo "1546"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "-8"]
[BlackRatingDiff "+36"]
[WhiteBerserk "true"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "180+0"]
[ECO "A06"]
[Opening "Zukertort Opening: Tennison Gambit"]
[Termination "Time forfeit"]

e4 d5 2. Nf3 dxe4 3. Ng5 Nf6 4. Bc4 e6 5. Nc3 Bc5 6. Ngxe4 Nxe4 7. Nxe4 Bb6 8. c3 O-O 9. d4 Nc6 10. O-O Na5 11. Bd3 a6 12. Qh5 f5 13. Ng5 h6 14. h4 Bd7 15. Be3 Be8 16. Qf3 hxg5 17. Bxg5 Qd5 18. Qg3 Rc8 19. Rae1 c6 20. b4 Bc7 21. Qe3 f4 22. Qe2 Nc4 23. Bxc4 Qf5 24. Bd3 Qf7 25. Qe4 Qg6 26. Qe2 Qf7 27. Qc2 g6 28. Bxg6 Qxg6 29. Qxg6+ Bxg6 0-1

Final Thoughts

Overall, the Saturday HiveChess S2R20 Tournament was dope 🔥, it was filled with sharp tactics from the competitors. I really enjoyed battling with these skilled players and I appreciate the opportunity to learn from every game, win or lose. A huge thank you again to @samostically for consistently hosting these engaging tournaments for the community!

Which game did you find most interesting, and what lessons did you take away from these battles? Share your thoughts below!

Closing

Thank you all for tuning in and for your continuous support. I look forward to the next round. See you all at the Friday HiveChess S22 Final round organized by @stayoutoftherz next week friday♟️