Hivechess Tournament Season 21 Round 3: @samostically did it again

Dear chess fans,

earlier today round 3 of S21 was played as a 5+0 Chess960 / Fischerrandom / Freestyle chess arena. For the rules please refer to the announcement post. 21 players were present (but only because I had changed the rules on a short notice: Minimum number of games to be played in order to get counted is now 4 instead of 5).
Welcome to Hivechess, @africanchess (othims)!

@samostically is also in Chess960 a beast on 100% bersek! Apart from one loss against @southgamer he won all his games! Runner-up was @jaki01, ex aequo in points with @southgamer. Only fourth was multiwinner IM @maestroask. Congratulations to All!

Result table of round 3:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/xd1iRKM7

Season 21: 26 Sep to 12 Dec 2025 / Ranking after 3 rounds:

Tournament 1 (0-1499)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance

1	@salomijale	summisineon1	IND	1350	3	23	1800
2(+1)	@lailawrites	Ohieku		1197	2	17	1582
3(-1)	@fiona777	fiona777	UKR	1485	2	13	1545
4	@dadapizza	knighthammer7		997	1	5	1153
5	@ezemhugo	MixzyRagnal		1495	2	5	1483
6	@vasigo	vasigo	SRB	1305	2	3	1311

Tournament 2 (1500-1799)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance

1	@giuatt07	guisep73	ITA	1685	3	45	1845
2(+1)	@justola1	just-ola	NGA	1755	3	37	1590
3(-1)	@lighteye	lighteye	SRB	1670	3	29	1776
4(+2)	@sammy00	migmag	BIH	1507	3	26	1445
5(+1)	@stranger27	stranger27	UKR	1715	2	25	1998
6(-2)	@rodrook	RDcast	USA	1517	3	25	1575
7	@spartano	humbertoortega		1528	2	12	1655
8	@darruiz	darruiz	VEN	1510	1	7	1641
9	@odic3o1	odic3o	NGA	1730	1	6	1508

Tournament 3 (1800-2099)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance

1(+1)	@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	AUT	2018	3	47	1879
2(-1)	@justfavour	justfavour	NGA	1849	3	42	1921
3(+3)	@southgamer	SouthGamer		2081	2	32	1798
4(+1)	@rosmarly	rosmarly	VEN	2000	2	24	1849
5(-2)	@dhilan04	tortyllan		2018	1	22	2026
6(-2)	@maverieux000	Keylix		2066	1	19	2154

Tournament 4 (2100+)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance

1	@jaki01	jaki01	GER	2325	3	60	2234
2	@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm	RUS	2472	3	54	2428
3	@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	NGA	2191	2	49	1980
4	@tangibleay	Tangible_ay	NGA	2235	1	26	2225
5	@lucianosky	Pavarotty	NGA	2337	2	24	2303
6(new)	@africanchess	othims	NGA		1	12

In tournament 2 @justola1 improved again and is now runner-up behind @giuatt07. In tournament 3 I was able to switch places with @justfavour. And in the elite tournament @samostically is running up the ranks and is now already on the third place.

See you all next week - and keep practicing!

In the last 3 days there was a 12-game rapid & blitz match between 2 chess legends: Gary Kasparow and Vishi Anand. They played Chess960 as well, venue was the Saint Louis Chess Club in St. Louis, United States.

At the end Garry Kasparov was the winner. Anand made some serious blunders, also in one game in better position he completely forgot the time and was flagged.

The series "Clutch Chess" will be continued end of October with a double round-robin (but I think it will be "normal" prapid chess, not chess960) with these 4 players: Magnus, Fabi, Hikaru and Gukesh:

https://www.chess.com/events/2025-saint-louis-clutch-chess-champions-showdown#schedule