Dear Chess fans,
the second round of Season 8 was a 4+1 Blitz arena with 20 players again! This time the average rating (1927) was even higher than last time! We could welcome a record-breaking number of 5 completely new players: @pamboy27, @agreste, @ebingo, @b0s (Da_k1ng) and Mr_Mendel (no Hive username), some came over from the "Liga CB" run by @chessbrotherspro. And @vjap55 finally showed up again! In fact he was even streaming the tournament! Please check out his stream here!
And also @samostically streamed the event here on 3speak!
@sawko could again win this round, with quite a gap to the runner up, @jaki01 who was in better form today than last time. Closely behind him, a group of 3 had the same points: @kreur, @samostically and @pamboy27. Congrats to All! @tungphong (blackswan21), the current leader of the Liga CB, ended "only" on the sixth spot.
I could gain only the 10th rank, my worst result ever in Hivechess, but we never had such a set of strong players, so I guess I have to get used to these results. And blundering a queen like in my game against @lighteye should also be avoided next time.
The games of this round can be found here, in case you want to replay some of them.
Season 8: 17 Sep to 15 Oct 2021 / Ranking after second round:
| Rank | Hive name | Lichess name | Rating | Rounds played | R1 | R2 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @sawko | CM sawkito | 2465 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| 2 | @tungphong | blackswan21 | 2437 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
| 3 (+2) | @kreur | Kreur | 2142 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| 4 | @samostically | ZGM_Samostically | 2305 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 14 |
| 5 (+1) | @jaki01 | jaki01 | 2382 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 13 |
| 6 (-1) | @eniolw | eniolw | 2454 | 1 | 8 | 8 | |
| 7 (new) | @pamboy27 | pamboy27 | 2135 | 1 | 6 | 6 | |
| 8 (-2) | @stayoutoftherz | stayoutoftherz | 2053 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 9 (-1) | @kintokris | jonbellionfan | 2103 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 (+8) | @burnoutawesome | burnoutawesome | 2069 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 11(-2) | @pereu4ivatel | pereu4uwatch | 2096 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 (+4) | @rafaelaquino | ajedrezclub2t | 1756 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 (-3) | @schamangerbert | HerbyW | 1769 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 14 (-3) | @rodrook | rodrook | 1445 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 (-3) | ? | Blacknight186 | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 16 (-3) | @lighteye | lighteye | 1751 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 (-3) | @maciejficek | XM9000 | 1547 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 (-3) | @sammy00 | migmag | 1508 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 19 (-2) | @zacherybinx | sirtetris | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 20 (-1) | @manncpt | Toful | 1245 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 21 (-1) | @vasigo | vasigo | 989 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 (new) | @vjap55 | vjap55 | 2126 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 23 (new) | @agreste | agreste | 1692 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 24 (new) | @ebingo | ebingo | 1502 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 25 (new) | @bOs | Da_k1ng | 1256 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 26 (new) | ? | Mr_Mendel | 2290 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The rules you can look up in the announcement post.
No big changes on the top of the rankings, @sawko could extend his lead, @kreur and @jaki01 could improve their positions a little bit and @pamboy27 with his good first result jumped immediately to the 7th spot! 3 more rounds to go in this season, so all is still possible.
See you alle next week!
