Hivechess Tournament Season 19 Round 8: @lucianosky was the winner!

Dear chess fans,

yesterday the 8^th round of season 19 was played. For the rules please refer to the announcement post.

It was a 2+1 bullet arena with 24 players! Welcome back, @wagnertamanaha!

At the end @lucianosky(Pavarotty) was the clear winner and last round´s winner @dhilan04 was runnner-up, followed by @rosmarly as third. Congrats to All!

I played not that bad this time, of course with occasional massive blunders, but I really have to rant a bit about the striking inequality with the pairings. Again my average opponent´s paring was the second highest of all (1878), while almost all above my rank had partly significant lower ranked opponents and also a lower tournament performance. This is quite annoying. I think I will make a break from arena tournaments and do the rest of the season only Swiss tournaments.

In this game from myself (Black) against @rosmarly I was threatened by a nasty fork against my Bishop while my Queen was attacked. There is only one way out and fortunately I found it. Can you spot it too and the correct follow-up?

Black to win

https://lichess.org/oWiYwmq7/black#41

Result table:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/G6b9nQr8

Season 19: 06 Sep to 22 Nov 2024 / Ranking after 8 rounds:

Tournament 1 (<1500)

Tournament 2 (1500-1899)

Tournament 3 (1900+)

^{Players can switch between the tournament tiers in case their rating changes!}

In tournament 2 @justfavour was able to grab back rank 2 from @masterswatch while 4 rounds to go @lighteye has still a comfortable lead! Also in the other tournaments the current leaders seem unthreatened. But just one round missing and all could change!

See you all next week - and keep practicing!