Hivechess Season 16 "Untitled" starting this Friday!

Dear chess fans!

Finally the long awaited S16 has arrived! But first let´s talk a little about the past season.

The prices from Season 15 were in the meantime sent to the players.
In total 688 Hive (currently app. 217$) have accumulated in the @chesspricepool account and were distributed among the 20 qualified participants.

Thanks a lot to all the Upvoters and Supporters!

Here is the snapshot of the final prizepool:

🏆 Payout table of Season 15 🏆

The Hivechess Hall of Fame

is located here as a post collection (and includes ALL chess tournaments on Hive):
https://peakd.com/ccc/badge-646464/the-hivechess-hall-of-fame
Select "View as post" in order to see it in a better way!

About Season 16

After the Lichess Team Battles and a break Season 16 will start this Friday 18^rd Aug, 19h GMT (at the usual time)! It will go over 10 rounds and will be conducted in the very classical way, apart from the fact, that it is an untitled tournament. So no titled players allowed (@eniolw, @sawko, @maestroask). Why? Because frankly I found it very disappointing, that none of the strongest players in our team ever showed up to represent the team in the Lichess Team Battles, NOT A SINGLE TIME, despite I had emphasized numerous times how beneficial that would be for our team. So in this season other strong players have a great opportunity to become champion. Titled players can play along out of competition, but their results won´t be counted.

As like handled last time, if I don´t know the Hive user name belonging to your lichess name (let me know in the comments here), you can play but your result won´t be counted!

The percentage of post rewards feeding the price pool is 65% and the @badge-646464 account will be used to accrue the rewards. It is preloaded already with >120 Hive from the Lichess Team Liga posts and the fun tournament!

Again I encourage any tournament or streaming report to set @badge-646464 as 5 or 10% beneficiary, because it is the tournament who made the report possible in first place, right?

Round 1

Time Mode: 5+0 (5 minutes per game, no increment), 70 min. arena

Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/HZyqv5FP

Rules

• All (untitled) players are welcome, also newbies, you just need a free Lichess-account and join our team in Lichess here (password is "Hive")!
• Every Friday is one round.
• Time mode is varying (5+0, 3+2, 2+1,...), sometimes Swiss, sometimes maybe Chess960 (Fischer Random).
• The winner of each round gets the number of points equaling the number of players in that round, the second ranked one point less and so forth until the one on the bottom of the table who gets one point (i.e. the Lighteye-scoring). In order to be counted, at least 3 games must have been played.
• In case two players have the same number of points, the one who played less rounds is first. If that is equal too, then the average tournament performance decides.
• PAYOUT: The tournament points of the 10 rounds are summed up. 65% of all Hivechess-related post rewards go to the price pool (PP). The tournament winner will get 25 Hive, the runner-up 20 and the third 10 Hive bonus. The rest of the PP is divided among all players who have participated at least three times according to the number of tournament points achieved (60%) and the number of rounds played (40%).
• There will be a special price of 10 Hive for the highest performance in relation to the own rating (counted by averaging the rating after the first and the last round, if at least 6 rounds are played).
• Five randomly selected players that participate in at least 8 of the 10 rounds will get rewarded with 100 LEO each, sponsored by @leofinance (thanks, @anomadsoul!).
• If I don´t know your Hive username, you won´t be considered for prices, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments! Community or badge accounts can participate but are not qualified for prices! Only individuals can get prices.

Please share this announcement among your (chess) friends and colleagues!
The more participate, the more fun! And maybe some are even interested to join Hive and it´s Chess Community?

See you all on Friday and good luck!

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