Dear chess fans,
the first round of Season 13 started yesterday with a 4+1 Swiss arena. 38 players had participated - a new record! In fact there were even 46 registered, but 8 of them played less than 3 games. We had also - next to quite a lot of new players - an IM joining Hivechess, @maestroask (Odnoobraz_bcm on Lichess)! Welcome to All!
And @maestroask immediately took the lead by convincingly scoring 7/7, with a performance of 2699, one point ahead of our multi-champion @sawko and @tony1294 as third. Congratulations!
I played totally ridiculously yesterday and had consequently my all time worst result, rank 26. In my game against @samostically I had even pretty good chances, but in this position with Black I didn´t find a good continuation but played R8h3?? after which White played Bf1 with a double attack on h3 and a7!
What would have been the best move instead?
Black to play and win
https://lichess.org/0Mj1t4N6/black#61
The biggest upset in round 1 was the victory of @lighteye against @samostically who had 480 rating points more (link to the game) where @samostically started ambitously (or carelessly?) an attack and @lighteye defended very well and later grabbed an exchange and could exchange pieces - no chance for @samostically to fight back. So the first special price, 1 Hive and 5 LEO, goes to @lighteye (will be paid out at the end of the season). There was one game with a slightly higher upset (488, by Alireza_1342), but I don´t know the Hive name of this player, and in such a case the next one with a known Hive name will be considered.
Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/swiss/pQJc6hye
Season 13: 02 Sep to 04 Nov 2022 / Ranking after the first round:
| Rank | Hive name | Lichess name | Rating | Rounds played | Points | Performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @maestroask | Odnoobraz_bcm | 2634 | 1 | 38 | 2699 |
| 2 | @sawko | CM sawkito | 2472 | 1 | 37 | 2544 |
| 3 | @tony1294 | tony1294 | 2250 | 1 | 36 | 2332 |
| 4 | @lucianosky | Pavarotty | 2335 | 1 | 35 | 2315 |
| 5 | @andzhi | andzh1 | 1959 | 1 | 34 | 2544 |
| 6 | @? | G174R | 2045 | 1 | 33 | 2021 |
| 7 | @beyondhorizonmm | beyondhorizonmm | 1635? | 1 | 32 | 2074 |
| 8 | @eniolw | eniolw | 2390 | 1 | 31 | 2326 |
| 9 | @rosmarly | rosmarly | 2023 | 1 | 30 | 2150 |
| 10 | @? | Oyuncu07a | 2436? | 1 | 29 | 2453 |
| 11 | @pamboy27 | pamboy27 | 2132 | 1 | 28 | 1959 |
| 12 | @wildthougts | Wildthougts | 2234 | 1 | 27 | 2116 |
| 13 | @kintokris | jonbellionfan | 2013 | 1 | 26 | 2093 |
| 14 | @? | ajedrez_64 | 2070 | 1 | 25 | 2071 |
| 15 | @vjap55 | vjap55 | 2150 | 1 | 24 | 1894 |
| 16 | @fcastro177 | FCastro17 | 2096 | 1 | 23 | 1908 |
| 17 | @? | Gornyi_Roman | 2007 | 1 | 22 | 1818 |
| 18 | @emic | emichessmaster | 2083 | 1 | 21 | 2033 |
| 19 | @? | Bishopmaker2018 | 1840 | 1 | 20 | 1783 |
| 20 | @stranger27 | stranger27 | 1735 | 1 | 19 | 1693 |
| 21 | @iammanythings | iammanythings | 2066 | 1 | 18 | 1829 |
| 22 | @? | bassam49 | 1608 | 1 | 17 | 1858 |
| 23 | @samostically | ZGM_Samostically | 2150 | 1 | 16 | 1860 |
| 24 | @? | Alireza_1342 | 1662 | 1 | 15 | 1985 |
| 25 | @lighteye | lighteye | 1708 | 1 | 14 | 1973 |
| 26 | @stayoutoftherz | stayoutoftherz | 2003 | 1 | 13 | 1796 |
| 27 | @agreste | agreste | 1816 | 1 | 12 | 1770 |
| 28 | @b0s | Da_k1ng | 1599 | 1 | 11 | 1452 |
| 29 | @sammy00 | migmag | 1531 | 1 | 10 | 1643 |
| 30 | @? | moscatel10 | 1783 | 1 | 9 | 1748 |
| 31 | @falcout | falcout | 1538 | 1 | 8 | 1584 |
| 32 | @maciejficek | XM9000 | 1511 | 1 | 7 | 1600 |
| 33 | @grafo07 | Grafo_07 | 1017 | 1 | 6 | 1351 |
| 34 | @pokerarema | ragnarokgame | 1152? | 1 | 5 | 1224 |
| 35 | @fiona777 | fiona777 | 1478 | 1 | 4 | 1396 |
| 36 | @? | juliandav | 2058 | 1 | 3 | 1827 |
| 37 | @vasigo | vasigo | 1234 | 1 | 2 | 1196 |
| 38 | @artistparthoroy | artistparthoroy | 1299? | 1 | 1 | 1277 |
The rules you can look up in the S13 announcement post.
4 new players ended up in the Top 10! With all the new players this will be a very interesting - and strong - season, maybe the strongest ever. I hope that at least some of them will play regularly and share their Hive usernames (or register to Hive).
See you all next week - and keep practicing!
