Battle Review ⚔: Saturday HiveChess Arena S1R19

Intro

---

Yesterdays tournament wasn't bad. As usual, it was filled with triumphs, blunders and even heartbreaking loses from me at least, LOL 😹.

But every match played gets you 1% better than before and that's what matters most. ♥

Here's how the final leaderboard looked:

---

1. 🥇 Rosmarly– 40 points

2. 🥈 Jaki- 39 points

3. 🥉 ZGM_Samostically– 37 points

---

📊

As usual, let's highlight some of the games that are quite interesting and we could learn from 👇🏼

---

Today's Game Highlights and Analysis

---

JUST_OLA VS FCASTRO17

I won this match against a high rated player but I won't call it my best because it was filled with inaccuracies.

White beserked and kicked off with the Opening: Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense.

There was a lot of blunders on both sides but the move that secured Blacks winning was the Knights movement to b4 capturing whites pawn. It gave Black the opportunity to capture whites bishop at f4 and then pressuring with his rook. Whites Knight was about to be captured, he then resigned which led to black winning this round.

Lets watch the gif:

https://lichess1.org/game/export/gif/black/NWETuSVn.gif?theme=brown&piece=cburnett

Game Link: https://lichess.org/sE4fvGun

This is the PGN file of the game:

---

[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R19 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/NWETuSVn"] [Date "2025.11.08"] [White "FCastro17"] [Black "Just_ola"] [Result "0-1"] [GameId "NWETuSVn"] [UTCDate "2025.11.08"] [UTCTime "15:12:40"] [WhiteElo "2086"] [BlackElo "1727"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-10"] [BlackRatingDiff "+11"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "240+0"] [ECO "D06"] [Opening "Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense"] [Termination "Normal"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6 3. cxd5 Nxd5 4. e4 Nb6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nf3 Bd7 7. Bd3 Bb4 8. e5 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 Ba4 10. Qe2 Nd5 11. Bd2 a6 12. O-O b6 13. c4 Ne7 14. Qe4 Ra7 15. Qg4 Ng6 16. Bg5 Qd7 17. h4 h5 18. Qg3 Nc6 19. Be3 Nb4 20. Bxg6 fxg6 21. Qxg6+ Qf7 22. Qe4 Bc2 23. Qf4 Qxf4 24. Bxf4 Bd3 25. Rfc1 Nc2 26. Ne1 Nxa1 27. Nxd3 Rf8 28. Rxa1 b5 29. c5 b4 30. Nxb4 Rxf4 31. Nc6 Rb7 32. g3 Re4 33. Rd1 Kd7 34. d5 exd5 35. Na5 Rb5 36. Rxd5+ Ke6 37. f3 Ra4 0-1

---

JUST_OLA VS JUSTFAVOUR

This game opened with the Vienna Game, where both players developed solidly until the queens were traded early, leading to a tense middlegame.

Black made a blunder by moving his Knight to g4, capturing white's pawn. This led to White checking his Knight and exchanges were made which opened up Blacks defenses. This gave White the opportunity to coordinate attacks that led to a checkmate at Rg8(Rook to g8).

Lets watch the gif:

https://lichess1.org/game/export/gif/black/p6dPyzKV.gif?theme=brown&piece=cburnett

Game Link: https://lichess.org/Tgm1Zdpo

This is the PGN file:

---

[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R19 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/Tgm1Zdpo"] [Date "2025.11.08"] [White "Just_ola"] [Black "justfavour"] [Result "1-0"] [GameId "Tgm1Zdpo"] [UTCDate "2025.11.08"] [UTCTime "15:17:21"] [WhiteElo "1738"] [BlackElo "1832"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+8"] [BlackRatingDiff "-7"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "240+0"] [ECO "C25"] [Opening "Vienna Game"] [Termination "Normal"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 h6 3. Nge2 Nf6 4. Ng3 d6 5. d3 Bg4 6. Be2 Be6 7. Nh5 a6 8. d4 exd4 9. Qxd4 Nc6 10. Nxf6+ Qxf6 11. Qxf6 gxf6 12. h3 O-O-O 13. Bg4 Bxg4 14. hxg4 Ne5 15. f3 Nc6 16. Nd5 Bg7 17. c3 Ne5 18. Ke2 c6 19. Nb6+ Kc7 20. Na4 d5 21. Nc5 dxe4 22. fxe4 Nxg4 23. Bf4+ Ne5 24. Nd3 Rde8 25. Nxe5 fxe5 26. Be3 Re6 27. Raf1 Rf8 28. Bc5 Rh8 29. Rxf7+ Kc8 30. Rxg7 Rd8 31. Re7 Rg6 32. Rg1 Rdg8 33. Kf2 Rf8+ 34. Ke2 Rfg8 35. Rxe5 Rxg2+ 36. Rxg2 Rxg2+ 37. Kf3 Rxb2 38. Bd4 Rxa2 39. Rh5 Kd7 40. Rxh6 b5 41. Rh7+ Ke6 42. Rh6+ Kd7 43. e5 a5 44. Rd6+ Kc7 45. Rg6 Kd7 46. Bc5 Ra1 47. e6+ Ke8 48. Rg8# 1-0

---

FIONA777 VS ZGM_SAMOSTICALLY

@fiona777 was in my DM after the tournament to tease me 😹 and also share her joy of acquiring high points. Good work again, friend.

I decided to look through her games later and I saw she won against samostically, a formidable opponent. I had to ask her what sorcery was used, Loll. Well, its chess and things like this happen often.

White beserked and kicked off with the Bishops Opening. He tired to end the game quite quick by placing his bishop at c4 and Queen at f3. Alas, black saw through the move and defended by placing her pawn at f6.

White made a blunder that cost him his Queen. Black leveraged the opportunity of losing a big piece and also the time constraint to land a checkmate.

Lets watch the gif:

https://lichess1.org/game/export/gif/black/9gUm3mC9.gif?theme=brown&piece=cburnett

Game Link: https://lichess.org/9gUm3mC9/black

This is the PGN file:

[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R19 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/9gUm3mC9"] [Date "2025.11.08"] [White "ZGM_Samostically"] [Black "fiona777"] [Result "0-1"] [GameId "9gUm3mC9"] [UTCDate "2025.11.08"] [UTCTime "16:07:33"] [WhiteElo "2178"] [BlackElo "1382"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-11"] [BlackRatingDiff "+12"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "240+0"] [ECO "C23"] [Opening "Bishop's Opening"] [Termination "Normal"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Qg5 3. Qf3 f6 4. Nh3 Qg6 5. O-O d6 6. d4 Bg4 7. dxe5 Bxf3 8. g3 Bxe4 9. Nf4 Qg4 10. exd6 Qf3 11. d7+ Nxd7 0-1

---

---

Thank you all for the games, it was really fun I won't lie. And thank you @samostically for hosting this tournament.

---

---

---

Saturday HiveChess S1R19 Arena

Image generated using Googles Nanobana:

https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/10UGxGzjUAtVa9PVS8qodz38glIPe5Ayp

---

---

---