Hive Chess Season 9,Round 3: My Full tournament Video And Thoughts

Modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure. Forget it, checkmate ends the game.

• Nigel Short

Introduction

Round 3 of The Friday's Hivechess event hosted by @stayoutoftherz was played today. It was a swiss system where every round pairings are made based on your performance, You can about the swiss system here. There were about 30 active participants today which made it very competitive.

Season 9, Round 3.

@eniolw continues his dominance in the Hivechess again today as he won the tournament with a remarkable 8/9, His performance once again leaves the second place vacant for @tungphong who has also been consistent. @vjap55 who ended third place on 6/9 tied with two others on point, had a fine tournament beating the two players above.

@samostically and @stayoutoftherz finished 4th and 5th place respectively with just the performance points separating them as they both ended on 6/9.

My performance

I feel quite satisfied with my performance today as i could still play some good chess and still ended up with a nice position which keeps in the top 3 in the standings.

I played a very interesting game today in my pet line "The smith Morra Gambit" ,one which I feel has been my best since playing Hivechess as I made alot of sacrifices in a king hunt which ended successful.High nerves,lucky moves maybe but still an interesting one. Here is the game below.

[Event "Hivechess Tournament S9 R3"]
[Site "https://lichess.org/w0k5i1eN"]
[Date "2021.11.12"]
[White "ZGM_Samostically"]
[Black "tony1294"]
[Result "1-0"]
[UTCDate "2021.11.12"]
[UTCTime "20:51:19"]
[WhiteElo "2271"]
[BlackElo "2330"]
[WhiteRatingDiff "+7"]
[BlackRatingDiff "-6"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "240+0"]
[ECO "B21"]
[Opening "Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit Accepted, Paulsen Formation"]
[Termination "Normal"]
[Annotator "lichess.org"]

1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Nxc3 Nc6 5. Nf3 e6 6. Bc4 a6 { B21 Sicilian Defense: Smith-Morra Gambit Accepted, Paulsen Formation } 7. O-O Qc7 8. Qe2 Nf6 9. Rd1 Bc5 10. Bg5 Ng4 11. Bh4 Nd4 12. Rxd4 Bxd4 13. Bg3 Bxf2+ 14. Bxf2 Nxf2 15. Kxf2 d6 16. Rc1 O-O 17. Kf1 b5 18. Bb3 Qb6 19. e5 Bb7 20. Bc2 dxe5 21. Bxh7+ Kxh7 22. Ng5+ Kg6 23. Qg4 f5 24. Qg3 Kf6 25. Nh7+ Kf7 26. Ng5+ Ke7 27. Qxe5 Rf6 28. Nd5+ Bxd5 29. Rc7+ Kd8 30. Rxg7 Bc4+ 31. Ke1 Qg1+ 32. Kd2 Qxg2+ 33. Kc3 b4+ 34. Kxb4 Qd2+ 35. Ka3 Qd5 36. Qc7+ Ke8 37. Qe7# { White wins by checkmate. } 1-0

You can catch my full tournament video on @threespeak

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