Dear chess friends,

I hope you had or have a peaceful Christmas Eve!

The fifth round of our Hivechess Christmas season  will be played tomorrow Friday at 21 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), one hour later than usual due to @schamangerbert´s [Queens Gambit tournament](https://peakd.com/hive-157286/@schamangerbert/the-queen-s-gambit-showdown-hivechess-tournament-25-december-19-21-gmt-20-22-uhr-deutsche-zeit). The original announcement with more information about this Hivechess tournament you can find [here](https://peakd.com/hive-157286/@stayoutoftherz/hivechess-tournament-payouts-of-season-3-and-start-of-season-4-tomorrow). 
Please don´t forget, the final 2 rounds after this one are not after one week, but already this Saturday and Sunday!

This time it will be played good old 5+0 classic Blitz chess.

[Current Ranking](https://peakd.com/hive-157286/@stayoutoftherz/hivechess-tournament-round-4-results) after 4 rounds. So far app. **165 Hive** are in the price pool!


Mode: **5+0** (5 minutes per game, no increment), 60 min., arena mode, no streaks
##### Tournament Link: **https://lichess.org/tournament/LSDiFCPt**

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





##### Time zones:

Time difference from Greenwich Mean Time GMT 21.00:

|||Local Time|
|-|-|-|
|Los Angeles|-7 hours|14.00h|
|New York, Venezuela	|−4 hours	|17.00h
|UTC, GMT, Reykjavik, Freetown	|0	|21.00h
|London	|0|21.00h
|Paris, Munich, Madrid, Nigeria, Vienna	|+1 hours	|22.00h
|Moscow,  Les'ky, Istanbul	|+3 hours	|24.00h
|Beijing, Hong Kong, Singapore|+8 hours	|05.00h
|Tokyo|+9 hours|06.00h
|Sidney|+11 hours|08.00h

GMT time converter: https://time.is/en/GMT


#### RULES
- For Hivers, Steemians, Blurters and all others!
- Players of all skill levels are welcome, from newbies to experts, you just need a free [Lichess](https://lichess.org/)-account!
- Every Friday is one round (with few exceptions)
- Time mode is varying (5+0, 3+2,...), rated, berserking allowed (except in Swiss mode)
- The winner of each round gets 8 points, the second 7,... and the 8<sup>th</sup> 1 point. In case 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: A season goes over 11 rounds and points are summed up. All Hivechess-related post rewards are pooled and 90% go to the price pool. The winner will get 30% of that price pool, the second 20%, the third 10%, the rest is divided equally among the other players according to the no. of rounds they have played. So everyone has a chance to get something and the more you play the more you get! Prices are payed out only in Hive Tokens.
- If I don´t know your Hive (or Steem) username, I can´t consider you in the rankings, so please let me know your Hive name in the comments or in the Lichess chat
- If you have not yet joined our team in Lichess, please do it [here](https://lichess.org/team/steemit-steem-chess-tournamants), so that you can participate (required for Swiss tournaments only).

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 on Friday!

Potentially of interest for
@aakrist @alberto0607 @ambarvegas @anli @arsenal49 @behiver @bitsignal @cerati @chesthetica @darruiz @digitalis @elprofe62 @eniolw @evgsk @foxconnmars @franciscomarval @furevo @gingerbyna @gravitcaper @heimindanger @hierro21 @hirohurl @iceblue @iobates @jaki01 @jkms @johannesboldt @juanmi96 @kintokris @kreur @marcusantoniu26 @maciejficek @manncpt @meedo @mstafford @owdtwobad @oshiokhenhoya @parung76 @pereu4ivatel @rafaelaquino @renerondon @rodrook @samostically @sawko @schamangerbert @soluce07 @spacetoon @the01crow @uliseshb @vjap55 @walner @yazp @zacherybinx

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