HiveChess Season 9,Round 4 - My Full Tournament Stream And Thoughts

There is no remorse like the remorse of chess.

• H. G. Wells

Introduction

Round 4 of The Friday's Hivechess event hosted by @stayoutoftherz was played today. It was a 3minutes, 2 seconds added (3+2) arena system where every everyone keeps playing and accumulating points, You can see more about the rules here. There were about 28 active participants today which made it very competitive.

Season 9, Round 4

Lichess user Blackswan21,Known on Hive as @tungphong Extends his lead in this season's competition as he won today's tournament with a win rate of 78% and a performance of 2335! @jaki01 continued his good run with a second place today. Also @vjap55 good 77% win rate earned him 3rd place.

Blackswan21 played the most number of games today (18) with 72% Berserk rate which is quite scary! He played with alot of speed and accuracy. Here is one games he played with so much Brute force.

[Event "Hivechess Tournament S9 R4 Arena"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/JDamKoEf"]
[Date "2021.11.19"]
[White "Jonbellionfan"]
[Black "blackswan21"]
[Result "0-1"]
[UTCDate "2021.11.19"]
[UTCTime "20:06:57"]
[WhiteElo "2095"]
[BlackElo "2427"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "-2"]
[BlackRatingDiff "+1"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "180+2"]
[ECO "A43"]
[Opening "Benoni Defense: Old Benoni"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]

1. d4 c5 { A43 Benoni Defense: Old Benoni } 2. e3 cxd4 3. exd4 Nf6 4. Nf3 b6 5. Bd3 Ba6 6. O-O Bxd3 7. Qxd3 e6 8. Re1 Be7 9. Bf4 Nc6 10. a3 O-O 11. Nc3 d5 12. Rad1 a6 13. Ne5 Qc8 14. Ne2 b5 15. c3 Nh5 16. Bg3 Nxg3 17. Nxg3 Nxe5 18. dxe5 Qc4 19. Qf3 Bc5 20. Ne2 Qh4 21. Nd4 Rfc8 22. g3 Qg5 23. h4 Qg6 24. b4 Bxd4 25. Rxd4 h5 26. Red1 Ra7 27. Qe3 Rac7 28. R4d3 Rc4 29. f4 Re4 30. Qf3 Rcc4 31. Kg2 Rxf4 32. Qe3 Rxh4 33. Qa7 Rhg4 34. Qe3 h4 35. Qf2 Qe4+ 36. Qf3 Rxg3+ 37. Kf2 Rxf3+ 38. Rxf3 Qc2+ 39. Ke1 Re4+ { White resigns. } 0-1

Very Interesting Game!

My Performance

Today felt different and I tried,but i just couldn't play good chess. Maybe everyone was stronger today, or i was just weaker. Either way, i have one or two things i learnt.

I don't have any interesting game i played today. But here is a 16 move! win by @vjap55 against me. I misplayed the opening and things got bad pretty fast!

[Event "Hivechess Tournament S9 R4 Arena"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/qYsOW9gS"]
[Date "2021.11.19"]
[White "vjap55"]
[Black "ZGM_Samostically"]
[Result "1-0"]
[UTCDate "2021.11.19"]
[UTCTime "21:01:03"]
[WhiteElo "2148"]
[BlackElo "2264"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "+7"]
[BlackRatingDiff "-8"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "180+2"]
[ECO "C67"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rio Gambit Accepted"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 { C67 Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defense, Rio Gambit Accepted } 5. Re1 d5 6. Nxe5 Bd6 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. Bxc6+ Kf8 9. Rxe4 dxe4 10. Bxa8 Qh4 11. g3 Qe7 12. Nc3 f5 13. d3 h5 14. h4 f4 15. Nxe4 fxg3 16. fxg3 { Black resigns. } 1-0

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