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We had another interesting round of Chess yesterday! I couldn't write a post yesterday because I had to run immediately after the game to prepare for my test in school tomorrow.

So, I joined the big boys in the leaderboard yesterday and it felt really goodd. I was able to amass a total of 34 points and secured 5th place.

Here's how the final leaderboard looked:

🥇 Odnoobraz_bcm– 59 points (absolute beast mode!)@maestroask
🥈Dakods-16– 57 points
🥉 Tangible_ay – 42 points @tangibleay

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Leaderboard

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 IAMCHESSGUY01

I have a conviction of never giving up in life and it also applies in chess. In this game, its rational to just resign since I had lost my queen and my position was very bad. I chose to keep playing hoping to seize an opportunity to make a comeback. White first blundered his queen and then his rook, black seized this opportunity to turn the game around and then white resigned. It was a really interesting game for me.

Lets watch the gif:

Game Link: https://lichess.org/67at00dB/black

This is the PGN file of the game:

[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R6 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/67at00dB"] [Date "2025.08.09"] [White "iamchessguy01"] [Black "Just_ola"] [Result "0-1"] [GameId "67at00dB"] [UTCDate "2025.08.09"] [UTCTime "15:53:29"] [WhiteElo "2067"] [BlackElo "1874"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-9"] [BlackRatingDiff "+9"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "D00"] [Opening "Queen's Pawn Game: Accelerated London System"] [Termination "Normal"]

d4 d5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 Nbd7 4. Nf3 Nb6 5. c3 Bd7 6. Nbd2 e6 7. Be2 Ba4 8. b3 Bd7 9. O-O c5 10. Ne5 cxd4 11. cxd4 Ne4 12. Nxe4 dxe4 13. Qc2 f5 14. Qd1 g6 15. Rc1 g5 16. Bg3 h5 17. h3 g4 18. Re1 gxh3 19. Bxh5+ Ke7 20. Ng6+ Kf6 21. Nxh8 hxg2 22. Bh4+ Kg7 23. Bxd8 Rxd8 24. Ng6 Be8 25. Nf4 Bc6 26. a4 Nd5 27. Nxd5 Bxd5 28. Rc7+ Kf6 29. Qc2 Bd6 30. Rf7+ Kg5 31. Be2 Rh8 32. Kxg2 e5 33. Rg1 Bxf7 34. Kf1+ Kf6 35. Bc4 Be8 36. Bd5 exd4 37. exd4 Rh3 38. Qe2 Rf3 39. Ke1 b5 40. axb5 Bb4+ 41. Kd1 Bh5 42. Kc1 Rc3+ 43. Qc2 Ba3+ 44. Kb1 Rxc2 45. Kxc2 Be2 46. Bc4 Bf3 47. Rg8 f4 48. Rf8+ Bxf8 49. d5 e3 50. fxe3 fxe3 51. b6 axb6 0-1

JUSTOLA VS JAKI

I don't think I have ever been paired with @jaki01 . The alogrithm decided to match us up for the first time. Black beserked and the game commenced with white moving to e4 and black replied with the Nimzowitsch Defense. Black position was excellent, white tried to maneuver his pieces to seize an opportunity and maybe also win on timer but black was able to land a checkmate at exactly 5 seconds to his time elapsing.

Lets watch the gif:

Game Link: https://lichess.org/ZHewsbyU

This is the PGN file:

[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R6 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/ZHewsbyU"] [Date "2025.08.09"] [White "Just_ola"] [Black "jaki01"] [Result "0-1"] [GameId "ZHewsbyU"] [UTCDate "2025.08.09"] [UTCTime "15:48:33"] [WhiteElo "1876"] [BlackElo "2238"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-2"] [BlackRatingDiff "+2"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "B00"] [Opening "Nimzowitsch Defense"] [Termination "Normal"]

e4 Nc6 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nge2 d5 4. Ng3 d4 5. Nce2 d3 6. Nc3 Nb4 7. cxd3 Nxd3+ 8. Bxd3 Qxd3 9. Qe2 Qxe2+ 10. Ngxe2 Bg4 11. d3 e5 12. O-O O-O-O 13. h3 Bh5 14. Ng3 Bg6 15. Bg5 Bc5 16. Kh1 c6 17. f4 exf4 18. Bxf4 Rxd3 19. e5 Nd5 20. Nxd5 Rxd5 21. Rfe1 Rhd8 22. Bg5 R8d7 23. h4 h6 24. Bf4 Bd4 25. Rad1 Bxb2 26. Rxd5 Rxd5 27. h5 Bh7 28. e6 fxe6 29. Rxe6 Kd7 30. Re2 Bf6 31. Ne4 Bxe4 32. Rxe4 c5 33. Rc4 b6 34. Be3 Rd3 35. Bf2 Rd2 36. Kg1 Rxa2 37. Kh2 Be5+ 38. g3 Rxf2+ 39. Kh3 Rd2 40. Ra4 a5 41. Re4 Ke6 42. Rg4 Rd3 43. Rg6+ Kd5 44. Kh4 b5 45. g4 b4 46. Rb6 Bf6+ 47. g5 Bxg5+ 48. Kg4 Rd4+ 49. Kf5 a4 50. Rb8 a3 51. Rb7 a2 52. Rd7+ Kc4 53. Rxg7 a1=Q 54. Kg6 Qb1+ 55. Kf7 Rd7+ 56. Kg8 Rxg7+ 57. Kxg7 Qb2+ 58. Kg6 Qf6+ 59. Kh7 Qf7+ 60. Kh8 Bf6# 0-1

GMDALODS-16 VS THEMADMAN4RMDASOUTH

Okay, this is interesting to watch. Both high rated players beserked as expected. Black was playing pretty good until he fumbled his rook and then his position got compromised which gave chance for white to take his pieces little by little (poco a poco), then black resigned which led to the end of the game

Lets watch the gif:

Game Link: https://lichess.org/dDKSGpZX

This is the PGN file:

[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R6 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/dDKSGpZX"] [Date "2025.08.09"] [White "Gmdalods-16"] [Black "TheMadman4rmDaSouth"] [Result "1-0"] [GameId "dDKSGpZX"] [UTCDate "2025.08.09"] [UTCTime "15:18:23"] [WhiteElo "2242"] [BlackElo "2163"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+4"] [BlackRatingDiff "-5"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "D05"] [Opening "Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System"] [Termination "Normal"]

Nf3 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e3 Nf6 4. c3 Nbd7 5. Bd3 b6 6. Nbd2 Bb7 7. Qc2 Bd6 8. e4 dxe4 9. Nxe4 Be7 10. Qe2 O-O 11. O-O Nxe4 12. Bxe4 Bxe4 13. Qxe4 Nf6 14. Qe2 Qd5 15. Rd1 Qh5 16. h3 Rad8 17. Bf4 c5 18. Be5 Nd5 19. Qe4 cxd4 20. Rxd4 Bc5 21. Rd2 Ne7 22. Rad1 Rxd2 23. Rxd2 Nd5 24. a3 Be7 25. c4 Nf6 26. Qb7 Re8 27. Qxa7 g5 28. Qxb6 g4 29. hxg4 Nxg4 30. Qb5 Qg6 31. Qxe8+ Bf8 32. g3 f6 33. Qxg6+ hxg6 34. Bd6 Bg7 35. c5 1-0

Thank you all for the games, it was really fun I won't lie. And thank you @samostically for hosting this game.