Reminder: Round 8 of the Hivechess Tournament S22 , Friday 19h GMT!

Dear chess fans!

tomorrow, Friday, 29^th May, round no. 8 of season 22 is played, at the usual time!
The current standings after 7 rounds you can find here.

It´s bullet chess time!

Mode: 2+1 (2 minutes per game, 1 sec. increment) arena over 60 min.

Tournament Link: https://lichess.org/tournament/VIw7COMA

The prize pool contains already 1345 Hive!

Rules

• All players are welcome, also newbies, you just need a free Lichess-account and join our team in Lichess here (password is "Hive")!
• Every Friday is one round.
• Time mode is varying (5+0, 3+2, 2+1,...), sometimes Swiss, sometimes Chess960 (=Fischer Random, Freestyle).
• The winner of each round gets the number of points equaling the number of players in that round, the second ranked one point less and so forth until the one on the bottom of the table who gets one point (i.e. the Lighteye-scoring). In order to be counted, at least 5 games must have been played.
• If two players have the same number of points, the one who played less rounds is first. If that is equal too, then eventually the last direct decisive encounter rules.
• PAYOUT: The tournament points of the 10 rounds are summed up. The top 3 of the Challengers are allowed to play in the Masters next season. The top 3 of both tournaments will get special prizes, the rest of the prize pool is divided according to the number of tournament points achieved (50%) and the number of rounds played (50%). In order to qualify for a prize you have to participate in at least five of the ten rounds!
• If I don´t know your Hive username, you won´t be considered for the standings and prizes, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments!
• Sandbagging is forbidden and will be punished.
• The full set of rules you can look up in the announcement post!

See you tomorrow and good luck!

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In the Norway Chess 2026 Magnus Carlsen lost already his second game! In a shocking fashion he self-destroyed in a winning position (and this time with more time on the clock) against Pragg and is now, after 3 rounds, at the bottom of the standings!
Is this the beginning of the end as GOAT??

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