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2024 Winter MarathonThe legendary 24h tournament2,742 players • ≤1500 SuperBlitz Arena222 players • Playing now Hourly UltraBullet Arena48 players • Playing now HyperBullet Increment Swiss21 players • Playing now

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FM Vostanin

Finding the absolute strength of existing rating systems - my proposal

Dec 23, 2024jk_182

The World Championship Match in 5 Graphs

Dec 27, 2024IM theScot

Back rank Tactics you didn't see coming!

Dec 21, 2024FM jeffforever

Interview with GM Aleksandar Indjic - European Champion 2024

Dec 26, 2024HollowLeaf

Chess Web Programming: Part Seven: Lichess API

Dec 23, 2024CkickyCheck

Absolutely Destroy The Caro-Kann

Dec 21, 2024NM AngryWeasel

Gukesh uses King on the 6th technique

Open tournaments

≤2000 Rapid	57m	498
Hourly King of the Hill	57m	55
Hourly SuperBlitz	57m	734
Hourly Atomic	57m	99
Hourly Blitz	57m	377
≤1500 SuperBlitz	57m	222
Hourly Rapid	1h 57m	334
≤1300 Blitz	57m	120
≤1700 Bullet	27m	87
Hourly Horde	27m	20
Hourly Bullet	27m	148
Hourly UltraBullet	27m	48
2024 Winter Marathon	24h	2742

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!