Saturday Hivechess Showdown! (S2R2)

Hello Chess lovers!

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

This second season started strongly with a decent field. Hopefully it remains the same this week!

Tomorrow, the chess960 tournament by @sammy00 resumes! click here for more details

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In round 1, We had the top players dominate the field. @maestroask started the season with a first place finish, CM @eniolw came second, while our very own Hive veteran player @jaki01 placed third.

For more information on the previous round please read;

@sam.chess/hivechess-s1r21-summary-and-winners-t9e8ka

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!

@sam.chess

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Next up is in two days 31/1/2026

The Lichess link to join the tournament;

https://lichess.org/tournament/MKunz5tk

Time control: 4+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!

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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 and see our events. (Password is Hive)

8. For more information about this tournament, Read Introducing A New Hivechess weekly event

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Thanks to our Main sponsors

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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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