Hivechess Tournament Season 13 Round 3: @sawko was the winner!

Dear chess fans,

the third round of Season 13 was played yesterday - a 3+2 Blitz arena with 30 players. The average rating was 1873, the highest so far in S13.

This time our multi-champion @sawko won very convincingly, with 6 points lead. Second was @tony1294 and 4 points behind were @kintokris (jonbellionfan) and @eniolw as third and fourth. Congratulations to All!
The winner of the first 2 rounds, @maestroask (Odnoobraz_bcm), landed only on rank 11, but he didn´t seem to play for the full hour. Maybe on purpose, maybe a technical problem, but on top of it he had a really tough pairing (av. opponent ranking 2242)!

I was able to luckily land in the Top 10, with such a strong field this is already an achievement. In this game against @samostically I (Black pieces) survived the opening and defended the pressure and after lots of trading ended up in a queen endgame (I hate queen endgames). A few mutual blunders it is a dead draw:
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https://lichess.org/U32vFOiV/black#110

But only if White moves his king to c4. Then it is an easy perpetual (Qa2+ and the king has to return to d4 - if I would have found this is another story😀). Instead @samostically made Ke4?? and after f5+ he suddenly loses his queen! Kf3 followed by Qxd5 ended the game. What a surprise! Also Ke5 wouldn´t have been any better. After Qe3+ it is a bizarre mate in 1 - in the middle of an almost empty board.

The biggest upset in round 3 was this victory of @fiona777 against @fcastro177 (rating difference 655). It doesn´t happen that often, that a 2100+ player is mated in 16 moves! 1 Hive and 5 LEO well-deserved go to @fiona777!

Yesterday was indeed the day of surprise mate in ones! Here an example of a game between @sawko (White) and @rosmarly. White is completely lost, the pinned bishop is soon falling and Black is up a bunch of pawns.
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https://lichess.org/jhrbsQyS/white#105
But again the King chose a fatal square, in this case f8 and was instantly mated by Qh8++.

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Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/4v7wNUJ3

Season 13: 02 Sep to 04 Nov 2022 / Ranking after 3 rounds:

RankHive nameLichess nameRatingRounds playedPointsPerformance
1(+1)@sawkoCM sawkito244731022363
2(-1)@maestroaskOdnoobraz_bcm25723952570,7
3(+1)@tony1294tony129422813942251
4(+1)@eniolweniolw23743862301
5(+2)@pamboy27pamboy27216538420065
6(+4)@kintokrisjonbellionfan20243812102,3
7(+1)@fcastro177FCastro1721223742083
8(+4)@samosticallyZGM_Samostically21073731982
9(+4)@rosmarlyrosmarly20613722133
10(-7)@lucianoskyPavarotty23332712416
11@emicemichessmaster20873632023,7
12(+3)@stayoutoftherzstayoutoftherz20073601903,7
13(+1)@iammanythingsiammanythings21633591943,7
14(-8)@andzhiandzh119792582075
15(+3)@vjap55vjap5521733562012
16(-7)@beyondhorizonmmbeyondhorizonmm15833551785,7
17(+6)@wildthougtsWildthougts22192502069
18(+2)@stranger27stranger2716963481763
19(+1)@b0sDa_k1ng16393451618
20(+6)@kreurKreur20642412226
21(+1)@agresteagreste17733361740,3
22(+5)@lighteyelighteye17083351845,3
23(-6)@yazpzulukill19881342061
24(-5)@?G174R20451332021
25(+6)@rodrookrodrook14572321817,5
26(-5)@?Oyuncu07a2436?1292453
27(+15)@fiona777fiona77715053261549,3
28(-3)@sammy00migmag14863261540,3
29(-5)@?ajedrez_6420701252071
30(+8)@schamangerbertHerbyW17232251730
31(-3)@?Gornyi_Roman20071221818
32(-3)@?art_rozov_1717151211774
33(-3)@?Bishopmaker201818401201783
34(+3)@vasigovasigo12773181416,7
35(-3)@?bassam4916081171858
36(+4)@pokeraremaragnarokgame13533161448
37(-1)@maciejficekXM900014813161440
38(-5)@?Alireza_134216621151985
39(-5)@petreiuspetreius19021151827
40(-5)@deadleafrealdeadleaf21441131628
41(+4)@?Yetundefemii18802111790
42(new)@philipp87Philipp8717731101651
43(-4)@?moscatel101783191748
44(-3)@grafo07Grafo_071055291383,5
45(-2)@falcoutfalcout1538181584
46(-2)@ptmakerptmaker1526181527
47(new)@?emprendemesta2022161993
48(-4)@?juliandav2058131827
49(-2)@artistparthoroyartistparthoroy1075231212
50(-2)@mypathtofiremypathtofire129911939

The rules you can look up in the S13 announcement post.

After 3 rounds @sawko is now leading. But please don´t forget that the worst result will be deleted. So if this season would end here already, @maestroask (Odnoobraz_bcm) would still be the winner!
@samostically and @rosmarly both could jump into the Top 10.
@philipp87 in his very first Hivechess tournament scored already 10 points - nice start!
By far the biggest gainer in R3 (+15!) was @fiona777 with a terrific performance!

See you all next week - and keep practicing!

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Gentle reminder: Today the new Super Crypto Chess League (SCCL), hosted by @schamangerbert starts! Read more about it here and don´t forget to register in advance!

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