Hivechess Season 14 started!

Dear chess fans!
Hivechess season 14 has already started this Friday. The result of round one you can see here.

What´s new in S14?

There is a 1 Hive registration fee to be sent upfront to the @badge-646464 account. Unless you have sent it, your result won´t be counted in the season ranking, so don´t forget it!

But the biggest change is that for the first time we will have a group phase and playoffs for the title. In the last seasons it was too obvious who would be the winner, wasn´t it. Therefore, after 6 rounds (and deleting the worst result), ONLY THE TOP 8 RANKED PLAYERS will enter the knockout stage and fight against each other in quarterfinals, then semifinals, and finally in the match for the champion title, while the rest of the players continues to play the remaining 3 rounds. The winner of the remaining tournament (i.e. the 9^th ranked in total) has a seat in the next season´s playoff! So it is still worthwhile to continue playing! From S15 onwards only the best 7 make it into the playoffs while the 8^th one comes from the previous season´s winner of the general field (only if he won´t be able to participate, the 8^th ranked will be the replacement).

The exact details of the playoffs will be announced later, just to give you an idea it will more or less look like this, with e.g. having the best of 5 blitz games to decide the winner of each match ( I am open to suggestions of how the matches should look like):

There will be also a new special price of 5 Hive plus 50 LEO for the best tournament report, replacing 2 of the previous special prices. If you see an awesome tournament report, give it a shoutout, tagging me, so that I won´t overlook. The report with the most positive comments gets the price. If not decisive, I will decide by myself.

All the rules you can read on in the official announcement post.

Don´t miss out S14 on Hive - fun, excitement and juicy prices!