Dear Chess fans,
the first round of Season 6 (I couldn´t find a proper name so far) was a 5+1 Blitz round with a record-breaking 18 players! But it turned out that one of them, Limlok is a cheater (confirmed by Lichess already). @yazp (zulukill) played only 1 game and is not counted as well according to the new rules!
At the end @vjap55 could win (like in the last round of S5) with 5 points distance to the second, @eniolw and our champion @sawkito as very close 3rd. What a surprise! What is surprising too is that the winner had not a single time to play against the second or third (the by far strongest players rating-wise). The second had a similar easy pairing, so this might partially explain the result.
@amirl (amirl-from-hive) could gain the 4th rank, followed by @jaki01 on the fifth rank only (actually one of his worst results ever, despite he had played very well, having strong opponents and a performance of 2400!). @schamangerbert (HerbyW) with the 6th spot got a quite good result in this strong field, one point ahead of myself. The remaining tournament points went to @maverieux000 (Keylix) (8th), @pereu4ivatel (pereu4uwatch) (9th) and @lighteye (10th). @rafaelaquino (ajedrezclub2t) got the unlucky 11th rank.
Overall, the pairing seemed this time especially strange. Maybe 60 min is too short for 5+1. With a little more time those inequalities would be less, what do you think? Would you be open to more 70min arenas?
Also due to the cheater a few players (including myself) lost some time, so I hope such occurrences won´t happen in the future.
The games of this round can be found here, in case you want to replay some of them. Please note that on Lichess Limlok was already removed from the results table (unlike in the screenshot above which I took directly after the tournament)!
Season 6: 14 May to 25 June 2021 / Ranking after first round:
| Rank | Hive name | Lichess name | Rating | Rounds played | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @vjap55 | vjap55 | 2151 | 1 | 10 |
| 2 | @eniolw | eniolw | 2469 | 1 | 9 |
| 4 | @sawko | sawkito | 2508 | 1 | 8 |
| 4 | @amirl | amirl-from-hive | 2147 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | @jaki01 | jaki01 | 2378 | 1 | 6 |
| 6 | @schamangerbert | HerbyW | 1806 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | @stayoutoftherz | stayoutoftherz | 2015 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | @maverieux000 | Keylix | 2108 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | @pereu4ivatel | pereu4uwatch | 2003 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | @lighteye | lighteye | 1657 | 1 | 1 |
| 11 | @rafaelaquino | ajedrezclub2t | 1754 | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | @aakrist | TheOnlyNischal | 1491 | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | @masterswatch | Masterswatch | 1659 | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | @elprofe62 | ELPROFE62 | 1365 | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | @maciejficek | XM9000 | 1430 | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | @rodrook | rodrook | 1486 | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | @yazp | zulukill | 1996 | 0 | 0 |
The rules you can look up in the announcement post.
See you next week and as always - keep practicing!
It's so sad to see cheaters in this event, in fact they are for everywhere and getting rid of all them is a challenge, I'm really into the idea that more plates come to this community however we should come up with new ideas to control this scenario, maybe something like they have to confirm their personal information both on hive and lichess profile.
If you ask me 5+1 is ok but the tournament should last a bit more 80 minutes is fine I guess !
By the way, i played against the second one but unfortunately the time wasn't not enough and my victory didn't count in the final score 😂 lol
As I mentioned in the previous post I'd like to add a few HIVES to the pool for this season let me know @stayoutoftherz if you are agree I can send you the HIVES in the final round and you can distribute them equally among the players .
80 min sounds good :), let´s see if we get some more feedback.
OK great! Up to you how you want to handle it, if you want it to be added to the price pool or distributed equally to all having played. Just let me know at the end of the season! Your contribution will be of course mentioned!
Who is a cheater and how do You know that?
It was Limlok, he had created the Lichess account on the same day and played like a grand master.
Here is his profil on Lichess: https://lichess.org/@/Limlok
Maybe earlier he played on other platforms like Chess.com and he really plays such good?
Maybe, but anyway Lichess blocked him.
if it is less than 5min, I will play 1/2hour to support the company
This time my internet prevented me from playing the tournament, as my friend @Stayoutoftherz said, I could only play one round. and that was frustrating ... but that motivates me more and more when the going gets tough, my efforts are doubled.
This is really annoying. Hopefully next time it works better.
Congratulations to the winner, we hope to continue participating in future tournaments.
Congratulations on the seventh place out of 17 participants, that's quite a decent performance.
Thanks, could have been better (but also worse).
How can I keep informed of upcoming tournaments please?
Just follow my blog, each week I post the link to the weekly tournament. @schamangerbert is organizing a weekly tournament as well, on Saturdays.