HiveChess Thematic Arena - Full tournament Video And Thoughts.

In order to avoid playing the opening theory, you need to study A LOT of opening theory.

• Peter Svidler

Introduction

The weekend Hive chess continued today with the thematic tournament hosted by @schamangerbert

Today's tournament was a closed Sicilian defence, another variation of the Sicilian which is very complicated unlike the regular open Sicilian lines. The tournament was played by 20players and was really fun.

It was a tough one today, as it looked very early that @jaki01 was going to run away with the 1st position after winning his first 7 games but after a draw to @stayoutoftherz who found a perpetual check in a fairly equal position, @eniolw was suddenly up in contention after also starting with a perfect run too. Both players were unbeaten in the tournament but @eniolw prowess with beserk button edged him over the former as he ended 1st place and @jaki01 had to settle for 2nd. @ burnoutsomehive ended 3rd place after a nice run too. Overall it was an interesting theme tournament.

One thing to note is black had more wins than white today!

My performance

Just like yesterday, I feel satisfied with my performance, although there some unconvincing draws I should have converted but overall it was interesting and 5th position again is okay for me. I also have a game I enjoyed today too, this one is against my good friend @tungphong who I finally won in a nice ending.

Check it out.

[Event "Hive Thematic Arena"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/KkRMQaq2"]
[Date "2021.11.13"]
[White "blackswan21"]
[Black "ZGM_Samostically"]
[Result "0-1"]
[UTCDate "2021.11.13"]
[UTCTime "20:21:23"]
[WhiteElo "2472"]
[BlackElo "2279"]
[Variant "From Position"]
[TimeControl "300+2"]
[ECO "?"]
[Opening "?"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[FEN "r1bqkbnr/pp1ppp1p/2n3p1/2p5/4P3/2N3P1/PPPP1PBP/R1BQK1NR b KQkq - 0 1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]

1... Bg7 2. Nge2 d6 3. h3 e6 4. d3 Nge7 5. Be3 O-O 6. d4 Nxd4 7. Nxd4 cxd4 8. Bxd4 e5 9. Be3 f5 10. Qd2 Be6 11. O-O-O d5 12. exd5 Bf7 13. Bh6 Qa5 14. Bxg7 Kxg7 15. Rhe1 e4 16. Qd4+ Kg8 17. a3 Rac8 18. Kb1 Rxc3 19. Qxc3 Qxc3 20. bxc3 Nxd5 21. Kb2 Rc8 22. g4 Nxc3 23. Rd7 Na4+ 24. Kb1 Nc3+ 25. Ka1 Na4 26. Re2 Rc3 27. Re3 Rxc2 28. gxf5 { Black wins by checkmate. } Rc1# 0-1

I have my full tournament video uploaded to @threespeak.

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