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Open tournaments
More »Benoni Defense Rapid | 1h 57m | 529 | |
Hourly Antichess | 57m | 124 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 900 | |
Hourly Three-check | 57m | 81 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 560 | |
≤1500 Blitz | 57m | 148 | |
≤1300 Rapid | 57m | 112 | |
≤1700 SuperBlitz | 57m | 173 | |
≤2000 Bullet | 27m | 90 | |
Hourly Chess960 | 27m | 26 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 192 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 52 | |
Daily Bullet | 1h | ||
HyperBullet Shield | 4h | 179 | |
Blitz Warm-up Arena October '24 | 55m | 610 | |
Elite SuperBlitz | 2h | 12 | |
Blitz Titled Arena October '24 | 3h | 144 |
In just 3 hours, you'll have the chance to play against some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!
Follow the Global Chess League final between the teams of PBG Alaskan Knights with GM Anish Giri and Triveni Continental Knights with GM Alireza Firouzja in our broadcast starting at 13:45 UTC.
We now rotate the featured blogs on our homepage, giving you more variety and more authors the chance to have their blogs read by a wider audience.
Check out our new broadcast calendar! Sortable by year and month, you can find all our broadcasts much easier than before.
Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle on 21 October at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!
To better understand which moves led to three- and fivefold repetition draws, we now highlight them in the analysis, as in this game for example.
Thank you to the more than 38 contributors who made September one of our highest activity months! See what we've been working on in the updated changelog.