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Lichess: A review of 2024!
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What You Need to Know About the Dynamic Center
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The Alapin Gambit - Refuted!
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The time Fischer allowed opposite color bishops
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Expected Score of Grandmasters based on Evaluation
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Two Overly Aggressive Players
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Lichess4545 League interview: Meet the player who returned after 38 seasons
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The 11 Best Bloggers on Lichess
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FIDE Online Arena: Impressions and Reflections
Open tournaments
More »Weekly Atomic | 3h | 254 | |
Daily UltraBullet | 1h | 145 | |
Hourly Antichess | 57m | 47 | |
≤1500 Bullet | 27m | 85 | |
Hourly Three-check | 57m | 32 | |
≤2000 Blitz | 57m | 411 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 368 | |
Nimzo-Indian Defense Blitz | 57m | 86 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 523 | |
≤1700 Rapid | 57m | 164 | |
≤1300 SuperBlitz | 57m | 56 | |
Daily Chess960 | 1h 30m | 76 |
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Congratulations to GM Alireza Firouzja for winning our Titled Arena January! GM Andrew Tang took 2nd place, just one point ahead of GM Nihal Sarin in 3rd place.
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Our January 1+0 Warm-up Arena begins in 3 hours at 17:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!
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The Tata Steel Masters 2025 has started! Follow the games between World Champion Gukesh D, GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Arjun Erigaisi and more in our broadcast until 2nd February.
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A new puzzle theme is now available: the Kill box mate. Select it from the Puzzle Themes page and start practicing. Many thanks to @dirkster99 for identifying and tagging over 3,000 Kill box mate puzzles!
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Let’s look back at everything we’ve achieved last year in our review of 2024!
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Congrats @anandloks on winning the Lichess Game of the Month December 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
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The German Bundesliga saw GM Magnus Carlsen making his debut for FC St. Pauli with a win over GM Max Warmerdam! Replay all the Bundesliga games of this weekend's Round 5 and Round 6 in our broadcast, featuring other world-class players like GMs Alireza Firouzja and Nodirbek Abdusattorov.