Hivechess Tournament S10 Round 4: @cocacolaron was the winner!

Dear chess fans,

the fourth round of S10 was a (too) fast 3+1 Swiss tournament with 26 players and an average rating of 1766 "only" which shows that also some lower ranked players joined recently - which is great! This week @astrolabio and @mrsarri newly joined - welcome, and welcome back @petreius!

Yesterday we again had a completely new winner: @cocacolarun. In his only fourth Hiveches tournament he was dominating the field and stayed as only player undefeated with phenomenal 8,5/9 points. Runner-up was @sawko with 8/9 and as third @eniolw with 6,5/9. Congratulations to All.

In this position @cocacolaron with Black against @deadleaf had already the initiative and White´s pieces were quite cramped. Here it was crucial to block the check with Nd4...

but after Kc1 suddenly White´s Queen was trapped and White immediately resigned:

@cocacolaron played also incredibly fast. In this position with White against @samostically he was up a piece and gave a check. Naturally, with only 3 seconds on the clock, @samostically in avoiding a trade or a pin, blocked it with g6?? - only to get punished instantly by Rh8 mate!

I was quite happy with my 7^th place. I lost only 2 times (no surprise, against
@sawko and @eniolw) but could make some draws against stronger players. This position against @rosmarly should be a theoretical draw according to the engine. As long as the Knight keeps his place, the pawn can´t promote. So I just needed to keep the King on c1 and d1, right?

And even if the Black Bishop lands on c2 to prevent any King move, I could have saved the draw by playing (not Nb1 which loses after the trade) but the engine move Nc4! I for sure would have never found this solution:

Unfortunately I had moved the Knight away and consequently the pawn was able to promote to a Queen. But luckily, in a time drama, I was stalemated later :)

I just show it to emphasize that sometimes in Blitz games it is worthwhile to fight until the very end!

Final standing of Round 4:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/swiss/7NjPWsn3

@vjap55 analyzed some games, please check them out here.
A livestream from @giacomone you can find here.

Season 10: 14 Jan to 18 Mar 2022 / Ranking after 4 rounds:

The rules you can look up in the S10 announcement post.

@sawko stayed on the top, but his lead is only 4 points! @cocacolaron could overtake @tungphong (blackswan21) and is now on rank 2. @jaki01 is now third, but needs 13 points to close up the top. Due to his not showing up today, @tungphong lost 6 places and is now 8^th only. This will make retaining his champion title very hard! Will we have this season a new champion?

Top gainer this week was @fiona777, thanks to her excellent 12^th place today!

See you all next week - and keep practicing!