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" You may learn much more from a game you lose than from a game you win "

By 👇🏼

Chess Grandmaster José Raúl Capablanca

The quote is simple, play more games and embrace losing. Every lose is a learning curve to become much better than you were before ♟

Intro: Taking a Chill Pill

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I had to wait a day to cook up this post so I don't saturate the chess community.

I was filled with much vitality after yesterday's game and wanted to share a recap so quick on Hive.

At the end of yesterday's tournament, I was able to amass a total of 21 points and I secured the 9th place out of 28 players.

As always, I'm proud of myself 🦚

Here's how the final leaderboard looked:

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1. 🥇 Odnoobraz_bcm– 46 points

2. 🥈 SouthGamer- 38 points

3. 🥉 FCastro17– 31 points

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

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Today's Game Highlights and Analysis

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JUST_OLA VS ROSMARLY

My first win was against rosmarly.

White opened with the Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System. One blunder changed the whole outcome of the game. Rook to b8 by White was an error that gave chance for black to capture White's rook at b8. The games went on and more pieces were exchanged, it was evident that black was going to win this round, White resigned before a checkmate happened.

The Blunder:

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

This is the PGN file of the game:

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[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R20 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/frh9ljh5"] [Date "2025.11.15"] [White "rosmarly"] [Black "Just_ola"] [Result "0-1"] [GameId "frh9ljh5"] [UTCDate "2025.11.15"] [UTCTime "15:01:13"] [WhiteElo "1974"] [BlackElo "1732"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-9"] [BlackRatingDiff "+9"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "D04"] [Opening "Queen's Pawn Game: Colle System"] [Termination "Normal"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 Nbd7 4. Bd3 Nb6 5. Nbd2 e6 6. b3 Be7 7. Bb2 Nfd7 8. O-O Bf6 9. Ne5 c5 10. Ndf3 c4 11. bxc4 dxc4 12. Be2 Na4 13. Ba3 b5 14. Rb1 Nc3 15. Qd2 Nxb1 16. Rxb1 a6 17. Nc6 Qc7 18. d5 c3 19. Qd3 e5 20. e4 Bb7 21. Qxc3 Bxc6 22. dxc6 Nb6 23. Rd1 Na4 24. Qe3 Rd8 25. Rxd8+ Bxd8 26. h3 Nb6 27. Qc5 Be7 28. Qxe7+ Qxe7 29. Bxe7 Kxe7 30. Nxe5 f6 31. Nd3 Rc8 32. Nf4 Rxc6 0-1

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JUST_OLA VS STAYOUTOFTHERZ

This game was quite interesting for me.

I analyzed the game and saw that my opponent made two errors:

1. His center wasn't properly guarded and the move Knight to f4 opened up his defenses and gave room for me to attack aggressively.

2. White's Knight moving from f3 to d3 was a blunder that cost him a Rook.

   I had more leverage due to the errors and I won the round .
   

   

Game Link: https://lichess.org/p6dPyzKV/black

This is the PGN file:

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[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R20 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/qhPX51tE"] [Date "2025.11.15"] [White "stayoutoftherz"] [Black "Just_ola"] [Result "0-1"] [GameId "qhPX51tE"] [UTCDate "2025.11.15"] [UTCTime "15:17:42"] [WhiteElo "2067"] [BlackElo "1741"] [WhiteRatingDiff "-10"] [BlackRatingDiff "+10"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "D06"] [Opening "Queen's Gambit Declined: Marshall Defense"] [Termination "Normal"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 dxc4 4. a4 a5 5. e3 e6 6. Bxc4 Bb4 7. Ne2 Bd7 8. O-O Bc6 9. f3 Nbd7 10. e4 Nb6 11. Bb3 Bd7 12. e5 Nfd5 13. Qd3 Qh4 14. g3 Qh3 15. Nf4 Nxf4 16. Bxf4 Bc6 17. Ne4 Nd5 18. Nf2 Nxf4 19. gxf4 Qxf3 20. Qxf3 Bxf3 21. Nd3 Be2 22. Nxb4 Bxf1 23. Rxf1 axb4 24. Kf2 Rd8 25. Ke3 b6 26. Rg1 O-O 27. Rc1 Rc8 28. Rc4 c5 29. Ke4 Rfd8 30. h4 Rxd4+ 31. Rxd4 cxd4 32. Kxd4 Kf8 33. h5 g6 34. hxg6 hxg6 35. Bc4 Ke7 36. b3 Kd7 37. Bb5+ Kc7 38. Kc4 Kb8+ 39. Kxb4 Ka7 40. Bc4 Rd8 41. Kc3 Rd1 42. Bb5 Rc1+ 43. Kd4 Rb1 44. Kc3 Rh1 45. Be8 Rh3+ 46. Kb4 Rf3 47. Kb5 Rxf4 48. b4 g5 49. a5 bxa5 50. bxa5 g4 51. Bc6 g3 52. Kc5 Rf2 53. Kd6 g2 54. Bxg2 Rxg2 55. Ke7 Rf2 56. Ke8 Ka6 57. Ke7 Kxa5 58. Ke8 Kb5 59. Ke7 Kc5 60. Kd7 Kd5 61. Ke7 Kxe5 62. Ke8 f5 63. Ke7 f4 64. Kd7 f3 65. Ke7 Re2 66. Kd7 f2 67. Ke7 f1=Q 68. Kd7 Kf5 69. Kc7 e5 70. Kc6 e4 71. Kd6 e3 72. Kd5 Rf2 73. Kd4 e2 74. Kd3 e1=Q+ 0-1

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SOUTHGAMER VS STUFFINGS

SouthGamer has been on a winning spree so I decided to see how he won against one of our strongest players 'stuffings'.

Its crazy one error changes the dynamics of a game. That move knight to f6 was a major error that cost Black to lose a piece and lose this game.

Game Link: https://lichess.org/vpqBVB6R

This is the PGN file:

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[Event "Saturday HiveChess S1R20 Arena"] [Site "https://lichess.org/Ni7hlOfI"] [Date "2025.11.15"] [White "SouthGamer"] [Black "stuffings"] [Result "1-0"] [GameId "Ni7hlOfI"] [UTCDate "2025.11.15"] [UTCTime "15:43:48"] [WhiteElo "1955"] [BlackElo "2267"] [WhiteRatingDiff "+10"] [BlackRatingDiff "-10"] [Variant "Standard"] [TimeControl "180+0"] [ECO "A17"] [Opening "English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense, Hedgehog System"] [Termination "Normal"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. d4 c6 6. Bf4 Be7 7. e3 Bf5 8. Bd3 Qd7 9. Ne5 Qc8 10. O-O O-O 11. Ne2 Bxd3 12. Qxd3 Ne4 13. f3 Nd6 14. Rac1 Nd7 15. a4 a5 16. e4 dxe4 17. fxe4 Qd8 18. Ng4 Nf6 19. Nxf6+ gxf6 20. Bh6 Kh8 21. Bxf8 Bxf8 22. e5 fxe5 23. dxe5 Ne8 24. Qxd8 Rxd8 25. Rxf7 Bg7 26. e6 Kg8 27. Rxb7 Rd2 28. Nf4 Bd4+ 29. Kh1 Nf6 30. e7 Kf7 31. Re1 Ne8 32. Nh5 Bxb2 33. Rf1+ Kg6 34. Nf4+ Kg7 35. Ne6+ Kh6 36. Nc7 Nd6 37. e8=Q Nxe8 38. Nxe8 Be5 39. Re7 Bd4 40. Re6+ Kh5 41. Nf6+ Kg6 42. Ne4+ Kg7 43. Nxd2 1-0

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Side Note: 50% of the reward for this post goes to @chesspricepool ♟


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

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Saturday HiveChess S1R20 Arena

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