2nd Chess960 Hivechess Torunament

Hello everyone.
Tomorrow is time for the first Chess960 tournament in 2025. Plan was to have at least one tournament of Chess960 at the end of each month. However there was a bit miscalculation about last Saturday of the month as well as busy schedule so we will have two Chess960 tournaments in February.

So tomorrow at 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT) we will have another Chess960 Hivechess tournament. Mode is 2 + 1.

Rewards

10 Hive Total and 500 ecency points.
First place gets 4 Hive, second place 3 Hive and third place gets 2 Hive.
1 Hive for biggest upset of the tournament.
Also top 5 players will get 100 ecency points each.

Rules

In order to participate you need Lichess account and to be part of our Lichess team.
Hivechess team (password is "Hive")
And you have to play at least 3 games in tournament (biggest upset award eligibility)

Tournament link https://lichess.org/tournament/OBmRV9Qg

Saturday at 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT) - come and have fun.

Friday tournament
Today in 6 hours dont miss https://lichess.org/tournament/8cCTmhyM at 21:00 CET organized by / @stayoutoftherz

Freestyle Chess Grand Slam

Today is first day of Freestyle Chess Grand Slam in Weissenhaus. It will be held from 7th to 14th February.
We have 10 players including current world champion Gukesh Dommaraju. Strong field and I think it will be a lot of good and interesting chess.

All players
Javokhir Sindarov, Fabiano Caruana, Alireza Firouzja, Vincent Keymer, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Magnus Carlsen, Dommaraju Gukesh, Hikaru Nakamura, Vladimir Fedoseev and Levon Aronian.

Right now there is a third game.
It is postiion 903 and players are discusing the possibilites and ready to start the round at the moment.
First position was 906th and second was 55th position.
(Positions are drawn for each match and position that was played can not be repeated again that day).

It is quite nice to see these players discus the position before the games.

Ecency points

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You can use points to boost your account - with ecency pointy you can get delegation and you can promote your post by using ecency points as well.

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