Dear Chess fans,

the first round of Season 6 (I couldn´t find a proper name so far) was a 5+1 Blitz round with a record-breaking 18 players! But it turned out that one of them, [Limlok](https://lichess.org/@/Limlok/all) is a cheater (confirmed by Lichess already). @yazp (zulukill) played only 1 game and is not counted as well according to the new rules!
At the end @vjap55 could win (like in the last round of S5) with 5 points distance to the second, @eniolw and our champion @sawkito as very close 3<sup>rd</sup>. What a surprise! What is surprising too is that the winner had not a single time to play against the second or third (the by far strongest players rating-wise). The second had a similar easy pairing, so this might partially explain the result. 
@amirl (amirl-from-hive) could gain the 4<sup>th</sup> rank, followed by @jaki01 on the fifth rank only (actually one of his worst results ever, despite he had played very well, having strong opponents and a performance of 2400!). @schamangerbert (HerbyW) with the 6<sup>th</sup> spot got a quite good result in this strong field, one point ahead of myself. The remaining tournament points went to @maverieux000 (Keylix) (8<sup>th</sup>), @pereu4ivatel (pereu4uwatch) (9<sup>th</sup>) and @lighteye (10<sup>th</sup>). @rafaelaquino (ajedrezclub2t) got the unlucky 11<sup>th</sup> rank.

Overall, the pairing seemed this time especially strange. Maybe 60 min is too short for 5+1. With a little more time those inequalities would be less, what do you think? Would you be open to more 70min arenas?
Also due to the cheater a few players (including myself) lost some time, so I hope such occurrences won´t happen in the future.

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/23tkjkd4EHdrG3WvxC8cSJ7feHRWbSAtzToLmCK8QLFpKXQWWhj2QvNXALg8bL7hZQUqa.png)

The games of this round can be found [here](https://lichess.org/tournament/CuH5rZrU), in case you want to replay some of them. Please note that on Lichess Limlok was already removed from the results table (unlike in the screenshot above which I took directly after the tournament)!


#### Season 6: 14 May to 25 June 2021 / Ranking after first round:
|Rank|Hive name|Lichess name|Rating|Rounds played|Points
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|1|@vjap55|vjap55|2151|1|10
|2|@eniolw|eniolw|2469|1|9
|4|@sawko|sawkito|2508|1|8
|4|@amirl|amirl-from-hive|2147|1|7
|5|@jaki01|jaki01|2378|1|6
|6|@schamangerbert|HerbyW|1806|1|5
|7|@stayoutoftherz|stayoutoftherz|2015|1|4
|8|@maverieux000|Keylix|2108|1|3
|9|@pereu4ivatel|pereu4uwatch|2003|1|2
|10|@lighteye|lighteye|1657|1|1
|11|@rafaelaquino|ajedrezclub2t|1754|1|0
|12|@aakrist|TheOnlyNischal|1491|1|0
|13|@masterswatch|Masterswatch|1659|1|0
|14|@elprofe62|ELPROFE62|1365|1|0
|15|@maciejficek|XM9000|1430|1|0
|16|@rodrook|rodrook|1486|1|0|
|17|@yazp|zulukill|1996|0|0




The rules you can look up in the [announcement post](https://peakd.com/hive-157286/@stayoutoftherz/hivechess-tournament-start-of-season-6-tomorrow).

See you next week and as always - keep practicing!

![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/stayoutoftherz/2EX2Ll8q-image.png)