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Puzzle of the day

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Titled Arena - $1000 prize fund, on galaxy theme background

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Middlegame Madness: The Candidate Moves - VIDEO

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Differences between FIDE Circuit and Women's FIDE Circuit

A bearded man sitting at a chessboard, looking at the viewer. Across from him, a robot arm is placed at the board as his playing opponent.

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Science of Chess: Can you tell a human opponent from a machine?

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Gukesh uses King on the 6th technique

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Finding the absolute strength of existing rating systems - my proposal

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Open tournaments

2024 Winter Marathon	24h	19457
Dutch Defense Rapid	1h 57m	360
≤2000 Bullet	27m	75
Hourly Three-check	57m	24
Hourly SuperBlitz	57m	181
Hourly HyperBullet	27m	33
≤1300 Rapid	57m	75
≤1500 Blitz	57m	81
Hourly Chess960	27m	13
Hourly Bullet	27m	97
Hourly Antichess	57m	19
≤1700 SuperBlitz	57m	76
Weekly HyperBullet	2h	11
Elite SuperBlitz	2h

Our 2024 Winter Marathon starts on 28 December at midnight UTC! Join us for 24 hours of 3+0 Blitz and be part of one of the biggest chess tournaments in history. The top 500, top 100, top 50, top 10 and the winner will all get a unique trophy.

Our first Titled Arenas for next year have been announced - as usual, they will be preceded by a Warm-up Arena open to all players.

A new progress bar in the open tournaments section of our homepage shows you the remaining time of started arenas, making it easier to see how much time is left before you join a tournament.

Lichess is translated to 80+ different languages. Thank you to Tux960 for translating over 11,000 words this month for our Tamil translation! You can help contribute other languages with Crowdin.

Congratulations to GM Andrew Tang for winning our Titled Arena December! GM Nihal Sarin took 2nd place, ahead of GM Daniel Naroditsky in 3rd place.

Our December 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 2 hours at 16:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!