Hello Chess lovers!
Welcome to the reminder post for round 18 of the HiveChess weekly tournament, held every Saturday.
This chess tournament is held every Saturday and is hosted by me @samostically, you can check out the Introduction Post for more details
Also using this account, you can check my Reblogs for chess related content. I try to support and reblog them here. Let’s keep creating and interacting with one another!
Next up is today 23/05/2026
The Lichess link to join the tournament;
https://lichess.org/tournament/nxhuwKZ4
Time control: 4+0
Prizes
The prize pool for this weekly tournament is 80 Hive with the prize list as follows:
Placements
- 1st – 15 HIVE
- 2nd – 13 HIVE
- 3rd – 9 HIVE
- 4th – 7 HIVE
- 5th–10th – 3.5 HIVE each
Rating Prizes
- Best U2000 – 5 HIVE
- Best U1800 – 5 HIVE
- Best U1500 – 5 HIVE
Sandbagging and cheating will lead to disqualification from the tournament and forfeiture of the prize back into the prize pool for the next round.
Also you can only win one prize, If you qualify for two prizes, you win the higher prize.
Goodluck Everyone!
Tournament Details
We play every Saturday at 15:00 GMT (Time Subjected to Review)
We play on an open-source chess application, www.lichess.org
To start up on Lichess, kindly read Introduction to Lichess Platform
Register with your Lichess username in the comment section if your name is not on the mention list.
Total play time is 1 hour and 10 minutes. Time control for the tournament varies with each round.
Feel free to write about your tournament experience and post the link in the comment. Quality posts will get curated. Alternatively, you can post on our Discord channel.
Join our Team Page on Lichess, to play and see our events. (Password is Hive)
For more information about this tournament, Read Introducing A New Hivechess weekly event
Thanks to our Main sponsors
See You on Saturday!
I’d also like to thank everyone who participates, upvotes, reblog and sponsor this weekly event. Thank you very much!
Mention List
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Super! Thank you! After complete disaster that was yesterday today there will be good chance to recover)
Congrats to the winners in this strong field!
Will be Practicing Softball a few Saturday mornings, (MASSL) Senior League.
Goodluck!
Prizes for r17
Placement Prizes
1st – 15 HIVE – @jaki01
2nd – 13 HIVE – @southgamer
3rd – 9 HIVE – @stayoutoftherz
4th – 7 HIVE – @sammy00
5th – 3.5 HIVE – @fcastro177
6th – 3.5 HIVE – @tangibleay
7th – 3.5 HIVE – @chessdev17
8th – 3.5 HIVE – @lailawrites
9th – 3.5 HIVE – @lighteye
10th – 3.5 HIVE – @samostically
Rating Prizes
Best U2000 – 5 HIVE – @justola1
Best U1800 – 5 HIVE – @stranger27
Best U1500 – 5 HIVE – @salomijale
Total Distributed: 80 HIVE
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