Reminder: Round 4 of the Hivechess Tournament S19 , Friday 19h GMT

Dear chess fans!

Round 4 of season 19 is played this Friday, 27^th Sep 2024, at the usual time.
The current standings after the first three rounds you can find here.

After the Chess960 (Fischer Random) of last round we go back to classic chess, but a bit faster. Not bullet, but close to it. I promise, next week we will then have a longer time control again.

Mode: 2+2 (2 minutes per game, 2 sec. increment), 60 min. arena

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

The prize pool contains already >201 Hive!

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 12 rounds are summed up. 65% of all Hivechess-related post rewards go to the prize pool (PP). Each of the 3 rating-tiered tournament winners will get "x" Hive (at least 50), 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 (50%) and the number of rounds played (50%). In order to qualify for a prize you have to participate in at least six of the 12 rounds!
• If I don´t know your Hive username, you won´t be considered for prizes, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments!

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!

! [Mention List]
Potentially of interest to:
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(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)

On another note, the Indian youngster Arjun Erigaisi (21y) is now ranked no. 3 by rating in classical chess after a phenomenal performance (10 out of 11) in the Chess Olympiad 2024, only topped by the one from championship challenger Dommaraju Gukesh (18y) who made 9 out of 10 on board 1, won whopping 30 rating points in Budapest and is now ranked 5!