Hivechess Tournament Round 4: @tungphong dominated!

Dear Chess fans,

the fourth round of Season 9 was a 3+2 arena with an average rating of 1914, again the highest so far in this season! With 28 players this round was well equipped with good players and many points could be distributed.

Like in the previous round, both @samostically and @vjap55 wrote already a report about the event including a video. Find them here and here. So not much left for mo to do 😄.

@tungphong (blackswan21) had apparently a great flow and left his peers no chances! He won with a huge lead of 11 points. Despite he lost more games than others, he played incredibly fast and could complete a lot of games. Congratulations! The second rank went to @jaki01 (his best result in this season!), equal in points with @vjap55 as 3^rd again.
@eniolw ended up as 4^th, followed by @kintokris (jonbellionfan) and @zacherybinx (sirtetris).
Of note, the pairing this time was quite unequal. While e.g. @eniolw ´s opponents had on average rating of 2192 (!), the ones from @jaki01 and @vjap55 had only 1828 and 1861, respectively. That is quite a difference.

I could again land in the Top 10 which is pretty decent.
In this position against @franu (Tz995) I had White and was totally hopeless (Stockfish says this is -6 already!). I am down 2 pawns, and Black is dominating on the open lines, right?

https://lichess.org/f79WpYdB/white#55

But instead of bringing the Knight back to c4 (after he had grabbed the a3 pawn), Black got greedy and defended his Knight with Qb4x. This allowed me to sacrifice my Bishop with Bg6x Rd2 Qe5 fg6x and Qe6x+.

After Kg7 and Rg3 (my last hope) it is still lost for Black, but only if White finds the correct way. Instead he played in time pressure too fast Qb1+?? Kh2 and all of a sudden there is no good way to prevent a deadly attack with Qe7 while defending g6, and he was forced a few moves later to give back a Rook to prevent mate.

Here the result table of R4:

The games of this round you can find here.

Season 9: 29 Oct to 17 Dec 2021 / Ranking after 4 rounds:

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Rating	Rounds played	R1	R2	R3	R4	Total	Performance
		average rating			1882	1892	1911	1914
		players			23	23	30	28

1	@tungphong	blackswan21	2439	4	22	23	29	28	102	2409,5
2(+2)	@jaki01	jaki01	2396	4	20	19	22	27	88	2186,5
3	@vjap55	vjap55	2155	4	14	20	28	26	88	2123,5
4(-2)	@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	2256	4	18	21	27	18	84	2174,5
5	@pamboy27	pamboy27	2183	4	15	22	24	22	83	2015
6	@eniolw	eniolw	2444	3	23		30	25	78	2460,7
7(+1)	@kintokris	jonbellionfan	2095	4	21	17	14	24	76	2037,3
8(-1)	@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	2041	4	12	15	26	21	74	2073,3
9	@emic	emichessmaster	2149	4	11	16	23	20	70	2186
10(+2)	@rosmarly	rosmarly	2084	3		18	20	14	52	1919
11(-1)	@pereu4ivatel	pereu4uwatch	2140	4	16	7	19	6	48	2199,8
12(-1)	@zincheck	ZinCheck	2143	4	17	9	15	7	48	2056,3
13(+1)	@petreius	petreius	1986	4	13	8	12	12	45	1884,3
14(+6)	@zacherybinx	sirtetris	2011	2			21	23	44	1972,5
15(+3)	@schamangerbert	HerbyW	1766	3		13	11	15	39	1760
16(-1)	@burnoutawesome	burnoutawesomehive	2132	3		10	17	10	37	1875
17(+4)	@agreste	agreste	1668	3	10		9	17	36	1738,3
18(-2)	@rodrook	rodrook	1563	4	2	12	13	9	36	1754,3
19(-6)	@sawko	CM sawkito	2366	3	19	6	8		33	2019,7
20(+8)	@kreur	Kreur	2105	2			10	19	29	2007,5
21(+4)	@franu	Tz995	2096	2		14		13	27	2134,5
22(+2)	@lighteye	lighteye	1658	4	9	1	6	11	27	1602,8
23(+4)	@maciejficek	XM9000	1521	4	1	5	5	16	27	1468
24(-5)	@b0s	Da_k1ng	1271	4	4	11	7	4	26	1709,5
25(-7)	@tony1294	Tony1294	2327	1			25		25	2333
26(-4)	@eliaschess333	eliaschess333	1962	1			18		18	1987
27(-4)	@walner	walner03	1821	1			16		16	1999
28(+4)	@vasigo	vasigo	1130	4	3	3	1	5	12	1448,3
29(-3)	@kharrazi	kharrazi	1205	4	5	2	4	1	12	1395,5
30(-1)	@maverieux000	Keylix	2074	2	8			2	10	1658,5
31(+3)	@sammy00	migmag	1488	2			2	8	10	1556
32(-2)	@pirex	karik10	1457	1	7				7	1671
33(-2)	@giacomone	KingJames4	1593	2		4	3		7	1413
34(-1)	@manncpt	Toful	1256	1	6				6	1573
35(new)	@anomadsoul	anomadsoul	1304	1				3	3	1481

The rules you can look up in the announcement post.

@tungphong (blackswan21) as the by far most consistent player (2 wins and 2 second places!!) could extend his lead to now 14 points, but the battle for the runner up is quite intense. Ranks 2 to 5 are only separated by 5 points. @jaki01 with his good result today could get the 2^nd rank for the first time, while @samostically fell to the 4^th. @vjap55 could keep the 3^rd spot. @eniolw could not improve further and is still on the 6^th place behind @pamboy27 who is also playing very solid and consistent. I would say all of them have good chances for the title, as there are still 5 rounds to go!
Also some players like @kreur, @agreste and @maciejficek (XM9000) had their best results in this season and could jump up quite a few ranks in the table.

See you all next week!

Any idea about a motive for the winner´s NFT? I have already an idea but suggestions are highly welcome!