Thirteen Chess960 Hivechess Tournament Results

Hello everyone.
Yesterday we finished our 13th Chess960 Hivechess Tournament. It was last round of Chess960 in 2025. There is time to think about possible continuation of Chess960 in 2026 and January. I appreciate everyone that joined the Tournaments through out the 13 rounds. Small changes were done along the way regarding time and prizes in Tournament and any additional ideas and suggestions are always welcome.
There are some additional prizes for overall number of wins in 2025.
Winner of December edition is @maestroask (IM Odnoobraz). No loss this round and only one draw. This was his fifth win this year in Chess960 Tournament and he gets additional 10 Hive for most wins for year 2025.
Congratulations.
Runner up of this round is @stayoutoftherz (stayoutoftherz). Another good performance with only one loss. @stayoutoftherz has second most wins in Tournament with 3 Round wins. Additional 5 Hive for the second place overall. Congratulations.
@jaki01 (jaki01) was third this round. After win in November edition another good finish with third place. Congratulations.
@fcastro177 (FCastro17) was at fourth and @dhilan04 (tortyllan) even though joined late manage to grab 5th place. Congratulations.
Biggest upset reward goes to @fiona777 (fiona777)with two biggest upset - win against myself (migmag) with 200 Elo difference and wins against @inuke (inuke_2025) whose rating was not yet set at that time but Elo difference was more than 310 points. Congratulations.

Tournament link
https://lichess.org/tournament/I82AmKfl
Most wins of the year in the Chess960 Hivechess Tournament gets 10 Hive and runner up gets 5 Hive.
Since it was last round of 2025 all participant of this round will get rewards with 16th and 17th place getting 1 Hive as well. Also minimum game played for this round is one so everyone gets rewards.
Top 17 gets rewards.
Top 3 ranked players get 3 Hive each.
4th and 5th place gets get 2 Hiv each.
From 6 to 17th place gets 1 Hive each.
Top 5 players rewards:
First place 5 Hive, second place 4 Hive, third place 3 Hive, fourth place 2 Hive and fifth place 1 Hive.
1 Hive for biggest upset of the tournament.
Additional 1 Hive for all wins- at least 7 games played



Many thanks for hosting this awesome tournament series, a perfect addition to the other ones in 2025!
I wish you the very best for 2026 already!!
Tnx, it is nice to have different format to play. All best to you as well.
Thank you @melinda010100
Have a nice day
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@chessbrotherspro tnx
Thanks for hosting the tournament but bigger thanks for the two Queens you gave me in the tournament.😀 Chess960 my second favorite variant.
Hahahahaha. Next year hopefully, I'm thinking of hosting a crazyhouse house tournament on hive!
I think you might have my full support...
Some would say that is one crazy plan
Always interesting to play against you. Tnx for joining.
congratulations to all the winners
Tnx for stopping by
Thanks @sammy00 for hosting Chess960 which is totally a different from the regular ones we play. Please continue organising tournaments i will give my full support to you and i hope, we will meet once in Bosnia and Herzegovina❤️✨✨
Thank you!!
Tnx, appreciate it. Nice to hear that we may meet someday here in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Have a nice day.
I really enjoyed the games. It was the first time ever that I played 960 format. 🤣
Really crazy stuff. I love it.
Looking forward to such events.
Hopefully, be a better challenger to you all.
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Good to hear that. Play some Chess960 games to get use to the sudden position changes - just not to be that much surprised in the beginning