HiveChess S1R15 Recap plus Puzzle Storm Challenge - 7 Hive reward

Hello everyone.
I finally managed to play and score decent points on Saturday HiveChess tournament. I played some games while on move and it is not quite easy to walk and play.
I will recap some games and after that there will be Storm Puzzle Challeng for everyone who wants to try some puzzle solving. More about that later.

Congrats to @maestroask on winning this round.
Just to mention that except one player with 2000 elo rating top 10 places were 2100 plus elo rated. I assume one of the strongest field rounds in Hive Chess.

First win in tournament was against @dakods (Dalods-16). I did not play good and I was losing when my opponent made blunder. After playing the move I noticed that it was mate. Funny one for sure.
It was berserk mode.

As you can see here I am in losing position.

I moved knight to g5 and was aiming for that check on b7 if I would be able to do so. My opponent played rook move to f1 which allowed me to play Queen to g7 check.

After the check @dakods (Dalods-16) blundered by moving his King to b1.
I saw knight check but I did not see that it was mate.

So knight a3 was checkmate which was nice surprise. Usually I am doing blunders but this time that was not the case. Win against strong opponent is always good.

Game link
https://lichess.org/pfuNND12/black#56

Next game I want show is game against @stayoutoftherz (stayoutoftherz).This is our second match up. I lost our first in this tournament.
If you played against me, most probably you saw this structure. Queen side castle, bishops toward king and pawn pushing on king side.

@stayoutoftherz (stayoutoftherz) started attack on my king as well. It is race at this point. Here I decided to sacrifice mz knight and to continue attack toward king. So

This was position after the sacrifice. And now what is next. Another sacrifice. This time bishop. My plan is remove pawn defence and go for a checkmate.

@stayoutoftherz (stayoutoftherz) moved pawn to f5 which was blunder. I took on f5 with check and managed to win couple pieces and finish game.
To me our games are interesting until I make blunder.

Game link
https://lichess.org/uena9yo5/white#0

Third game is against @justola1 (Just_ola). Here I made some sacrifice and I was losing as well but after blunder I managed to get a win.

After he castled on king side I started expanding on that side. With knight on h1 it seemed stuck on that side.

@justola1 (Just_ola) allowed me to ruin his pawn structure around the king.

Here I sacrificed the rook by taking pawn on g2.

We exchanged pieces where I got his queen and a bishop for a rook and a bishop.
It was not looking too good for me.

But in this position @justola1 (Just_ola) blundered a knight move to d2. I picked up a knight after that and slowly continued to pick up his pawns and get another queen.
It was nice game. One blunder was enough to get this game in other direction.

Game link
https://lichess.org/5U0s5kTm/black

14 games of chess for me this round. Not bad.

Puzzle Storm Challenge

We did one several week back. Top three scorers get 2 Hive each. @stayoutofherz got highest score last time so first one who takes down his highest score gets additional 1 Hive. His score is 28.

Some technical details how to find Puzzle Storm.

Puzzle Storm
Puzzle Storm gives you three minutes to solve as much puzzles as you can. You start whole puzzles with same color - it changes when you restart and informs you on the beginning of the puzzle run. Incorrect puzzle takes away 10 seconds from your time.
Pretty simple. Puzzles gets harder as you solve them. Lets see how many puzzles you can solve in 3 minutes.

Rules
Deadline is Saturday, October 18th at midnight.
Comment your score with screenshot on this post.
You had better run that one you posted before - no worries just post it again.

Rewards
7 Hive total
Top 3 scorers will get 2 Hive each.
1 Hive for the first player to get score more than 28.

Rules
At least one participation in one of the tournaments in Chess community.
Screenshot must include your profile name.

How to find it on lichess page?
Under puzzles there is Puzzle storm section.
Click it and you are ready to go.

At the end you get your total score with stats.
You can post this one as your high score.

Or like this one from your profile.

10% of the rewards of this post goes to the @sam.chess
and
10% of the rewards of this post go the @chesspricepool
as prizepool of Hivechess Tournament Season 21

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