Hivechess Season 17 is starting this Friday!

Dear chess fans!

Finally S17 - called "x4" - has arrived! But first let´s talk a little about the past season.

The prizes from Season 16 were in the meantime sent to the players.
In total 667 Hive (currently app. 230$) have accumulated in the @badge-646464 account and were distributed among the 26 qualified participants.

Thanks a lot to all the upvoters and supporters!

Here is the snapshot of the final prizepool:

🏆 Payout table of Season 16 🏆

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Price (Hive)
Winner	@lucianosky	Pavarotty	2307	10	185	74,4
2nd	@pamboy27	pamboy27	2163	9	170	65,1
3rd	@rosmarly	rosmarly	2041	10	165	55,6
4	@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	2037	10	156	43,8
5	@agreste	agreste	1779	9	119	35,4
6	@lighteye	lighteye	1710	10	113	35,6
7	@giuatt07	guisep73	1642	9	108	33,3
8(+1)	@rodrook	rodrook	1413	10	95	32,2
9(+1)	@b0s	Da_k1ng	1637	10	92	31,6
10(-2)	@jaki01	jaki01	2361	4	90	22,8
11	@justfavour	justfavour	1708	7	74	24
12	@sammy00	migmag	1518	10	74	28,2
13(+3)	@dhilan04	tortyllan	2064	5	63	19,1
14(-1)	@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	2135	3	52	14,1
15(-1)	@schamangerbert	HerbyW	1611	4	51	15,4
16(+1)	@vasigo	vasigo	1087	10	46	32,8
18	@stranger27	stranger27	1689	3	37	11,3
19	@engilhramn	Engilhramn	1386	5	31	12,9
22(+5)	@darruiz	darruiz	1269	3	26	9,2
23(-2)	@giacomone	KingJames4	1635	3	25	9
24(-2)	@fiona777	fiona777	1352	5	23	11,4
25	@hannes-stoffel	hannes-stoffel	1572	3	22	8,4
26(-3)	@acidtiger	acidtiger-hive	1343	4	21	9,6
27(-3)	@og-gamershub	bossgaius	1064	7	20	13,6
28(+2)	@mypathtofire	mypathtofire	1329	6	19	12
32(-1)	@artistparthoroy	artistparthoroy	973	3	11	6,3

Also 100 LEO were each sent by @anomadsoul to the lucky winners @agreste, @lighteye, @giuatt07, @b0s and myself, sponsored by @leofinance! Thanks a lot!!

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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!

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About Season 17

After the break and the 2 fun tournaments Season 17 will start this Friday, the 15^th Dec, 20h GMT (at the usual (winter) time)! It will go over 10 rounds and will be conducted in the very classical way, including players of any skill levels.

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 prize pool is again 65% and the @chesspricepool account will be used to accrue the rewards. It is preloaded already with 29 Hive from the two fun tournaments!

What is different this time (there needs always to ba a change, right?) is, that the prizes will be separated in groups according to rating (as always the average rating counts (i.e. the rating at the end of the first round plus from the last round played divided by two).
So there will be separate prize pools for players rated <1500, <1800, <2100 and the rest.

In other words, we de facto have 4 tournaments (therefore the season is called "x4") with 4 winners of these rating tiers:
Tournament 1: 0-1499
Tournament 2: 1500-1799
Tournament 3: 1800-2099
Tournament 4: >2099

The size of the prize pools will depend on how many players will end up in those group. E.g. if in the group of 1500-1799 are much less participants then in the group <1500, the prize pool will be accordingly smaller, because it would be than easier to get a top spot. If after the first 2 rounds I will see that e.g. in one group are much less players than in another, I might adapt the thresholds a little bit, to have more similar sizes (and prizes) of the groups.

By this we avoid running separate tournaments but have hopefully more motivation for all players to perform (and participate often)! Let´s see how this will work out!

Again I encourage any tournament or streaming report to set @chesspricepool 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/55PYWEHi

Rules

• All 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 prize pool (PP). Each of the 4 rating-tiered tournament winners will get "x" Hive (at least 10), the runner-up "y" and the third "z" Hive (depending on the no. of players in each group). The rest of the PP is divided among all other players according to the number of tournament points achieved (70%) and the number of rounds played (30%). In order to qualify for a prize you have to participate in at least five of the 10 rounds!
• There will be a special prize of 5 Hive for the player with the highest tournament performance in relation to his rating.
• LEO prizes will be funded by @leofinance, detailes to be confirmed
• 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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(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)

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