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Women's World Chess Championship 2025 Preview: Ju Wenjun Profile

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Attack or be attacked

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Winning the World juniors!

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Mailbag: OTB Tournaments

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X-Ray Attacks: Hidden Pressure, Sudden Impact

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New Chess Repertoire Builder

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Lichess4545 League Interview: Meet the Player behind this Artwork

Our new Flipping Board feature is now available! Press Shift+F to flip the board, unleash the beast, and enjoy knowing that you totally would have won the game. Happy board flipping!

Learn more about the defending champion of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025, GM Ju Wenjun, in our second preview blog! We will stream every round from 3 to 20 April on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and GM Toms Kantāns - more details coming soon.

Play with our new piece set: RhosGFX! Select it from the Piece set option in your account menu. Many thanks to its designer of the same name - RhosGFX - for contributing it!

Join the TMC Arena, organised by the Moon Club, for 2 hours of 3+0 Blitz with a total prize pool of $1,500 - starting on 29 March at 15:30 UTC!

GM Matthias Blübaum is the new European Chess Champion and now the only player to have won the title twice! He finished with 8.5/11 points, just like GM Frederik Svane in 2nd place and GM Maxim Rodhstein in 3rd place, but had the better tiebreak scores. The top 20 players who weren't already qualified have secured a spot in the FIDE World Cup.

Find out more about the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025 challenger, GM Tan Zhongyi, in our first preview blog! We will stream every round of the Women's World Championship from 3 to 20 April on our Twitch and YouTube channels - more details coming soon.

GM Anna Muzychuk won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Nicosia on better tiebreaks than GM Zhu Jiner! Both players drew their games in the final round. IM Olga Badelka could have changed the outcome in favor of GM Zhu Jiner with a win over IM Stavroula Tsolakidou, but missed her chance in a complicated endgame.