Lichess: A review of 2024!
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Open tournaments
More »Slav Defense Rapid | 1h 57m | 234 | |
Hourly Crazyhouse | 57m | 86 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 99 | |
≤1500 SuperBlitz | 57m | 198 | |
Hourly Racing Kings | 57m | 38 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 769 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 475 | |
≤1300 Blitz | 57m | 70 | |
≤2000 Rapid | 57m | 416 | |
≤1700 Bullet | 27m | 16 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 12 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 16 | |
Crazyhouse Shield | 6h | 17 | |
Streamers Battle January '25 | 2h | 436 |
Our January week of variant Shield Arenas starts at 16:00 UTC with the 3+2 Chess960 Arena! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.
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.
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!
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.
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!
Let’s look back at everything we’ve achieved last year in our review of 2024!
Congrats @anandloks on winning the Lichess Game of the Month December 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!