Dear chess fans!

Round 7 of season 21 is played this Friday, 7<sup>th</sup> Nov. 2025, at the usual time!

The current standings after 6 rounds you can find [here](https://peakd.com/hive-157286/@stayoutoftherz/hivechess-tournament-season-21-round-6-maestroask-tangibleay-and-southgamer-on-the-podium).

This time we go for bullet mode! Fasten your seatbelt, this will be a blunderous ride!

Mode: **2+1** (2 minutes per game, 1 sec. increment), 60 min arena tournament

#### Tournament link: https://lichess.org/tournament/O4al2uqi

![ab0jml.gif](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/EoAUQtFYUaxcRT1xLPmnBrcPk5q5yBUwf6FVqvVQA8wBdJmCAp2ktusMwAxBcR6YnXi.gif)


The [prize pool](https://peakd.com/@chesspricepool/wallet) contains already **1450** Hive!





### Rules
- All players are welcome, also newbies, you just need a free [Lichess](https://lichess.org/)-account and join our team in Lichess [here](https://lichess.org/team/the-blockchain-chess-team) (password is "Hive")!
- Every Friday is one round.
- Time mode is varying (5+0, 3+2, 2+1,...), sometimes Swiss, sometimes Chess960 (Fischer Random, "Freestyle" chess).
- The winner of each round gets the number of points equaling the number of players in that round, the second ranked one point less and so forth until the one on the bottom of the table who gets one point (i.e. the [Lighteye-scoring](https://peakd.com/hive-157286/@lighteye/hive-chess-tournaments-scoring-and-reward-system-engsrp-sistem-bodovanja-i-nagradjivanja-na-shahovskim-hajv-turnirima)). In order to be counted, at least **4** games must have been played.
- If two players have the same number of points, the one who played less rounds is first. If that is equal too, then the average tournament performance decides.
- PAYOUT: The tournament points of the 12 rounds are summed up. Each of the 4 rating-tiered tournament winners will get "x" Hive (at least 80), the runner-up "y" and the third "z" Hive (depending on the no. of players in each group). The rest of the [prize pool](https://peakd.com/@chesspricepool/wallet) is divided among all *other* players according to the number of tournament points achieved (60%) and the number of rounds played (40%). In order to qualify for a prize you have to participate in at least **six of the 12 rounds**!
- If I don´t know your Hive username, you won´t be considered for prizes, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments!

Please share this announcement among your (chess) friends and colleagues!
The more participate, the more fun! And maybe some are even interested to join Hive and it´s [Chess Community](https://peakd.com/c/hive-157286/created)?


**See you all on Friday and good luck!**

>! [Mention List]
> Potentially of interest to:
@aakrist @abelarte @abimbola753 @acidtiger @africanchess @agreste @aiuna @ajumaa @alberto0607 @alexmag1988 @almightymelon @ambarvegas @anadello @andzhi @anli @anomadsoul @apy @arsenal49 @artistparthoroy @artsbreezy01 @astrolabio @awesomeintrigue @b0s @behiver @beyondhorizonmm @bitsignal @bostonadventures @brijwhiz @burnoutawesome @camiloferrua @castm2 @cerati @chessbrotherspro @chessdev17 @chesthetica @cositav @cryptogee @cryptoniusraptor @cryptoph0823 @ctrpch @dadapizza @dakods @dalods @darruiz @detectblock @dhilan04 @diegofitness92 @digitalis @djbravo @doctorfate @dovycola @draco2 @duskobgd @ebingo @eenriquerivas @elcholitosanto @eliaschess333 @elprofe62 @emeka4 @emerald09551 @elcholitosanto @engilhramn @eniolw @ernestopg @evgsk @ezemhugo @fcastro177 @fiona777 @flaws @franciscomarval @franu @fredaig @gabotask @geo52rey @giacomone @gingerbyna @good-karma @grafo07 @grigorijj @hierro21 @hildemaro @hirohurl @iamchessguy @iammanythings1 @ibizaki @idksamad78699 @iobates @ironshield @ismeris @jaki01 @jay12y @jesusmgl1995 @jesustiano @jkms @johannfrare @juanmi96 @justfavour @justola1 @katerinaramm @kaungsett8388 @kintokris @konquest @kreur @lailawrites @levitant @lighteye @llag @lucianosky @maciejficek @madchess64 @maestroask @marcusantoniu26 @mario89 @masterswatch @maverieux000 @mdasein @meedo @memess @mendelito @menati @mrsarri @mstafford @mundharmonika @mundocuriosidad @mypathtofire @nanixxx @nftland1989 @nikoszzz @oadissin @odic3o1 @officialrosh1 @og-gamershub @olujay @omonomo @onthewayout @pamboy27 @parung76 @perpz @petreius @philipp87 @phoennix09 @pokerarema @pokermaria @poseout87 @pravesh0 @precab @psicologopoeta @purapapita @queenofthesqrs @rafaelaquino @ram9612 @ramonchis @razzor @reiseamateur @renerondon @rexplanet @rheda @rodrook @ropavejero @rosmarly @roswelborges @sahi1 @salaks.chess @salomijale @samostically @sanjamkapoors @sawko @schamangerbert @seki1 @soluce07 @southgamer @spacetoon @spartano @stranger27 @stuffings @suisver @syndmitrij @tangibleay @techstyle @tenny-trigah @teooo @the01crow @thedoc07 @therealflaws @timix648 @timofey @tobijob @toluwayme @tomasguitar @tony1294 @tungphong @uliseshb @ulisesjavier22 @uniforced @vaipraonde @vasigo @victorbch2 @vjap55 @volkiceper @walner @wealthgrammy @web-gnar @wegflexor @xoflox @yazp @yinjuolu @yf95 @yonnathang @zacherybinx @ziabutt3836 @zlater
(just let me know if you don´t want to get the mentions)

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/HDltfCmz-image.png)

Just as a reminder, there are still **5 HBD** up for grabs for creating an animated version of the normal Hivechess logo (below, not the one above only for bullet chess). You can easily make it with Grok Imagine, https://grok.com/imagine, and afterwards change the video to a gif using e.g. https://imgflip.com/gif-maker.

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/23tm76PPWyrTa1y8AbDgQYxAG6L6YfVcuZpaMuHxSZQpebCeUEuwTAcvXh1qNyhXJU8Fs.png)

As mentioned, ideally the end position should be the starting position so that the gif runs more smoothly.

Send your gif in the comments below, the user with the best one will get 5 HBD (if there are at least 3 suggestions and if it is decent)!