Dear chessfans!
While we have a break from the classical Friday´s Hivechess season, there is no stop from playing chess on Hive (besides @schamangerbert has started the Saturday´s tournament again)!
In this new tournament it is not about playing against each other (in fact we won´t be even paired against each other!). In the Lichess Liga Team Battle it is all about our Blockchain chess team against other teams!
It starts tomorrow, Sunday 14th May, 18h GMT, so one hour earlier than usually.
How can we as a global chess team - built mostly by a common interest in Hive - compete against many other teams who come from traditional chess clubs? I think this is a great question waiting to be answered and at the same time also can promote crypto and Hive to nocoiners.
Those tournemants are organized by Lichess moderator FM jeffforever and are conducted 2 times per week (every Thursday and Sunday), with varying time formats. It is a huge event, ongoing since 2020, with app. 500 teams and >4000 players participating each time and dozens of leages in parallel (here is an overview)! The highest possible liga is the "Lichess Bundesliga". There are often IMs and FMs as team leaders, so expect some strong opponents. But don´t be afraid, on the higher board numbers there are less experienced players, so in fact the teams are mostly as heterogenous as ours.
There is no registration for you needed. We start in liga 12B. The more from our team participate, the higher our chances will be to get a good result and improve in the rankings. E.g. if we end up in the top 3, we will be in liga 11 next time! If we make it to rank 8 only, we will be downgraded to liga 13, as can be seen on the left side of the tournament page:
Update: Currently we are #1 seeded, with @pamboy27 as our strongest player!
https://lichess.org/tournament/OU35ogi6
How far can we get?
The rules:
- Everybody in our Lichess team can join using the link to the tournament (pick our team if asked 😃, in case you are part of multiple teams)
- A win collects 2 points for our team, a draw 1
- Only the results of the 6 best contributors of each team are counted in this liga (but all skill levels are important, because each win means potentially less points for the other teams!)
- Every Thursday and Sunday are tournaments
- The links to the upcoming tournaments are - dependent on our result - already provided in the description of the tournament itself and also on our team page! But I plan to post reminders as well.
Mode: 3+0 (3 minutes per game, no increment), 100 min. rated arena, win streaks & berserk allowed
Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/OU35ogi6
So please give it a try and lets show the Lichessers around the globe that there is an awesome team dedicated to blockchain and Hive! As far as I can judge, we are anyway quite strong and should manage to get a good place if several of our top players are able to join!
Mention List
Potentially of interest to:
@aakrist @abimbola753 @acidtiger @agreste @aiuna @alucian @artsbreezy01 @ajumaa @alberto0607 @alexmag1988 @almightymelon @alpha @ambarvegas @anadello @andzhi @anli @anomadsoul @apy @arsenal49 @artistparthoroy @astrolabio @awesomeintrigue @b0s @behiver @beyondhorizonmm @bitsignal @burnoutawesome @camiloferrua @cerati @chessbrotherspro @chesthetica @clixmoney @cryptogee @cryptoniusraptor @cryptoph0823 @cryptopi314 @dhilan04 @darruiz @diegofitness92 @digitalis @ebingo @eliaschess333 @elprofe62 @emeka4 @eniolw @eenriquerivas @engilhramn @evgsk @fcastro177 @fiona777 @flaws @foxconnmars @franciscomarval @franu @gabotask @giacomone @gingerbyna @grafo07 @hannes-stoffel @heimindanger @herz-ass @hierro21 @hirohurl @hivetrader @iamchessguy @iammanythings1 @ibizaki @iceblue @iobates @ironshield @jaki01 @jesusmgl1995 @jesustiano @jkms @johannfrare @josesmoke @juanmi96 @justfavour @kaungsett8388 @kintokris @kreur @levitant @lighteye @lofone @lucianosky @maciejficek @maestroask @marcusantoniu26 @mario89 @masterswatch @maverieux000 @meedo @memess @mrsarri @mstafford @mundocuriosidad @mypathtofire @nftland1989 @nikoszzz @oadissin @officialrosh1 @olujay @omonomo @orlanzavala @oshiokhenhoya @pamboy27 @parung76 @perpz @petreius @philipp87 @pokerarema @pokermaria @pravesh0 @primersion @ptmaker @rafaelaquino @rafzat @razzor @renerondon @rexplanet @rheda @rodrook @ropavejero @rosmarly @salomijale @samostically @sanjamkapoors @sawko @schamangerbert @schnitte @soluce07 @solymi @spacetoon @steamloled @steemychicken1 @stranger27 @syndmitrij @the01crow @thedoc07 @therealflaws @timix648 @timofey @tin.aung.soe @tony1294 @tungphong @uliseshb @vaipraonde @vasigo @victorbch2 @vjap55 @volkiceper @walner @wegflexor @xoflox @yazp @zacherybinx @ziabutt3836
(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)
As a small incentive, to every player who will be contributing points to the end result (i.e. the top 6 of our team) I will send 1 Hive!
Also, 30% of the rewards of this post go the prizepool of S16!
Damn, I read that 2 months too late. :)
Oh! Korrigiert.
Eigentlich hatte ich heute sogar mitspielen wollen und mich recht ausgeruht und fit gefühlt, aber die Frage meiner Tochter, doch bitte noch mit ihr einen Film über Planeten und mögliches außerirdisches Leben zu schauen, hat nun meine Pläne durchkreuzt. :)
Nach dem Turnier wäre es dafür leider schon etwas spät ...
Also viel Erfolg allen, die teilnehmen!
Deine Tochter hat natürlich Vorrang, noch dazu, wenn es um ein so spannendes Thema geht!
🤣🤣🤣
I'm going to contribute some points :)
!PIZZA
!hbit
Great idea! I think it can really attract new members to Hive. I won't be able to participate because I regularly play in the leagues for another team. I wish the Hive team victories and promotion up the leagues.
This is awesome. I look forward to being a big part of it by participating. Let's get word out on Hive with Chess!
Try to have a great event!
It seems good to taste 🍺, see you there guys.
Sounds great, I will try and join! :)
Great, so everyone can potentially contribute by winning...
Thank you! I have already joined!
Man this sounds amazing, I haven’t been able to play or watch chess vids in weeks, but I’ll do my best to be around for some of these! LFG hive chess team!
Great idea, do we have to play every Sunday and Thursday? I could play this Sunday, but on Thursday at that time, it will be impossible for me.
No worries, you can join anytime when convenient for you.
If I'm free, we'll meet there. Have a nice time!
Hey!! I found these news today, certainly to late to join today's tournament. Yet I joined the team. Since I have not spotted the schedule for upcoming tournaments I am looking forward to your reminders for Thursday and Sunday. !invest_vote
Great you finally joind our team. A tipp: The upcoming tournament, now in liga 11, is already shown on the team page: https://lichess.org/tournament/NQYT6F7A
OMG, it’s 3+0… I would make more damage to the team if I play :(
$PIZZA slices delivered:
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