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Hello Chess lovers!

Welcome to the reminder post for round 18 of the HiveChess weekly tournament, held every Saturday.

This chess tournament is held every Saturday and is hosted by me @samostically, you can check out the Introduction Post for more details

Also using this account, you can check my Reblogs for chess related content. I try to support and reblog them here. Let’s keep creating and interacting with one another!

https://peakd.com/@sam.chess

Next up is today 23/05/2026

The Lichess link to join the tournament;

https://lichess.org/tournament/nxhuwKZ4

Time control: 4+0

Prizes

The prize pool for this weekly tournament is 80 Hive with the prize list as follows:

Placements

• 1st – 15 HIVE
• 2nd – 13 HIVE
• 3rd – 9 HIVE
• 4th – 7 HIVE
• 5th–10th – 3.5 HIVE each

Rating Prizes

• Best U2000 – 5 HIVE
• Best U1800 – 5 HIVE
• Best U1500 – 5 HIVE

Sandbagging and cheating will lead to disqualification from the tournament and forfeiture of the prize back into the prize pool for the next round.

Also you can only win one prize, If you qualify for two prizes, you win the higher prize.

Goodluck Everyone!

Tournament Details

1. We play every Saturday at 15:00 GMT (Time Subjected to Review)
2. We play on an open-source chess application, www.lichess.org
3. To start up on Lichess, kindly read Introduction to Lichess Platform
4. Register with your Lichess username in the comment section if your name is not on the mention list.
5. Total play time is 1 hour and 10 minutes. Time control for the tournament varies with each round.
6. Feel free to write about your tournament experience and post the link in the comment. Quality posts will get curated. Alternatively, you can post on our Discord channel.

7. Join our Team Page on Lichess, to play and see our events. (Password is Hive)

8. For more information about this tournament, Read Introducing A New Hivechess weekly event

Thanks to our Main sponsors

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See You on Saturday!

I’d also like to thank everyone who participates, upvotes, reblog and sponsor this weekly event. Thank you very much!

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