Hello Chess players on Hive,

Yesterday , we played the Eighth round of the weekly Saturday HiveChess Tournament. We had a total of 27 players who clicked to join the event and about 26 players who actually played a game. This is one of the highest participants when we exclude the first round.

We had IM @maestroask win again and @poseout87 AKA ManFromSpain on Lichess coming second and we had one if the strange twins @dakods coming third. It was another interesting round of chess. Today I tried to play few games and I'd make a post on that later. I also tried to thread the tournament as it was going live. I'm considered streaming the next event.

Table of the Top 8 Players

Lichess	Hive	Points	Ratings
IM Odnoobraz_bcm	@maestroask	62🏆	2575
ManFromSpain	@poseout87	50	2327
Dakods-16	@dakods	33	2253
Tangibleay	@tangibleay	31	2185
southgamer	@southgamer	31	2052
MenkodVirginProducer	No Hive Username Registered	29	2147
Jaki	@jaki01	26	2219
Madchess64	@madchess64	24	2047

Prizes

1st - 10 Hive - IM @maestroask
2nd - 8 Hive - @poseout87
3rd - 7 Hive - @dakods
4th - 5 Hive - @tangibleay
5th - 2.5 Hive - @southgamer
6th - 2.5 Hive - @jaki01
7th - 2.5 Hive - @madchess64
8th - 2.5 Hive - @stuffings

Biggest Upset - No biggest upset prize this week again!

U2000 - 5 Hive - @justfavour
U1800 - 5 Hive - @sammy00
U1500 - 5 Hive - @fiona777

Ratings used for the prizes are players initial rating at the start of the tournament

Thanks to everyone that played. If you're new, please read the tournament information below to get started.

Tournament Details

1. We play every Saturday at 15:00 GMT

2. We play on an open-source chess application, www.lichess.org

3. To start up on Lichess, kindly read @samostically's 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 our team events.

8. It is important to know that the Hive Saturday Chess Saturday was founded by @schamangerbert

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

10. Thanks to our Main sponsors @Stayoutoftherz, @brianoflondon @eddiespino through the aliento project & @yabapmatt!

In two days, we will write an article featuring brilliant games played in the event. Feel free to share lichess links to your games if you feel they are brilliant enough to be featured. The liquid rewards from that post will be shared with players whose games are used.

See You Next Week Saturday!

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