Reminder: Round 8 of the Hivechess Tournament S10 , Friday, 20h GMT

Dear chess fans!

the eigth round of S10 is played this Friday 4^th Mar., 20h GMT, as usual.
The current standings after 7 rounds you can find here.

This time it will be a 4+1 Swiss mode over 7 rounds. For noobs, more infos about the Swiss mode you can find further down this post. Swiss tournaments are rather rare lately, do you want to have them more often?

IMPORTANT REMINDER: In order to play in R8 tomorrow, you need to be part of the NEW Hivechess Lichess team called "The Blockchain Chess Team". There are currently only 38 members, so apparently not all have moved over yet: PLEASE JOIN HERE!

Mode: 4+1 (4 minutes per game, 1 sec. increment), 7 rounds Swiss mode

Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/swiss/M71Jeabo

There are already app. 324$ (331 Hive!) in the pricepool! As predicted, the Hive price is again close to 1$ 😄!

RULES

• For Hivers, Steemians, Blurters, noise.cashers and all others!

• Players of all skill levels are welcome, from newbies to experts, you just need a free Lichess-account!

• Every Friday is one round

• Time mode is varying (5+0, 3+2,...), rated, berserking allowed (except in Swiss mode)

• 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.

• Occasionally a round may be divided into 2 skill classes

• 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: This season goes over 10 rounds and the tournament points are summed up. All Hivechess-related post rewards are pooled and 80% go to the price pool (PP). The tournament winner will get 25 Hive bonus, a unique NFT trophy and the rest of the PP is divided among all players according to the number of tournament points achieved, but only if a player has participated at least 3 times (if <3 games are played in a round it will be not counted)!

• There will be special prices for the highest overall tournament performance and the highest performance in relation to the own rating (counted by averaging the rating after the first and the last round)

• If I don´t know your Hive username, I can´t consider you in the final rankings, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments or in the Lichess chat!

• If you have not yet joined our team in Lichess, please do it here, so that you can participate (required for the Swiss tournaments only).

Swiss Tournament Rules

There are several differences between the "normal" arena mode and the Swiss mode which needs to be considered:

	Arena tournaments	Swiss tournaments
Duration of the tournament	Predefined duration in minutes	Predefined max. rounds, but exact duration unknown
Number of games	As many as can be played in the allotted duration	Decided in advance, same for all players
Pairing system	Any available opponent with similar ranking	Best pairing based on points and tie breaks
Pairing wait time	Fast: doesn't wait for all players	Slow: waits for all players
Identical pairing	Possible	Forbidden
Streaks & Berserk	Yes	No
Points	Win:2, Draw 1, doubled if on fire	Win:1, Draw: 1/2, Not paired: 1
Late joiners	get no points	get 1/2 point gift
Requirement to be in our team	no	yes

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 tomorrow and good luck to all!

Potentially of interest to:
@aakrist @abimbola753 @agreste @alberto0607 @alexmag1988 @almightymelon @alpha @ambarvegas @amirl @anadello @anli @anomadsoul @apy @arsenal49 @astrolabio @b0s @behiver @bitsignal @burnoutawesome @camiloferrua @cerati @chessbrotherspro @chesthetica @cocacolaron @cryptoph0823 @darruiz @diegofitness92 @digitalis @ebingo @eliaschess333 @elprofe62 @eniolw @eenriquerivas @evgsk @fairy-of-comfort @fiona777 @fjcr @flaws @foxconnmars @franciscomarval @franu @gabotask @giacomone @gingerbyna @gravitcaper @heimindanger @hierro21 @hirohurl @iceblue @iobates @ibizaki @jaki01 @jesusmgl1995 @jkms @josesmoke @juanmi96 @kintokris @kreur @levitant @lighteye @lofone @lucianosky @maciejficek @manncpt @marcusantoniu26 @masterswatch @maverieux000 @meedo @mrsarri @mstafford @nftland1989 @orlanzavala @oshiokhenhoya @pamboy27 @parung76 @perpz @petreius @primersion @rafaelaquino @renerondon @rexplanet @rodrook @ropavejero @rosmarly @salomijale @samostically @sawko @schamangerbert @schmidi @schnitte @soluce07 @spacetoon @steamloled @stranger27 @syndmitrij @the01crow @thedoc07 @therealflaws @tony1294 @tungphong @uliseshb @vaipraonde @vasigo @victorbch2 @vjap55 @walner @xoflox @yazp @zacherybinx
(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)

By the way, while digging out old posts I found my very first chess-related post. What a small chess community we were back then in 2017! Really amazing, how much stronger we are today!
Check it out for fun:
https://peakd.com/chess/@stayoutoftherz/steemit-regular-chess-blitz-tournament