FIDE World Championship 2024IM Unuk and GM BlohbergerFIDE World ChampionshipDing Liren vs. Gukesh D • Chess960 Warm-up Arena December '24Open to all45 players • Classical Increment Swiss27 players • Playing now
LichessWCC 2024 Round 9: A Moral Victory for Ding
LichessWCC 2024 Round 8: A Double Advantage English
FM HurburtWhy is Gukesh avoiding the French?
overgearedRounds 4, 5, and 6: Draws Filled with Drama and Missed Opportunities
CM HGaborEffective training methods - calculation training
IM theScotLife Hacks for Getting to IM
jk_182Engine Analysis of Games 7-9 from the World Championship
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FM jeffforeverInterview with GM Oleg Korneev - Former Top 20 & very active OTB player
Open tournaments
More »| ≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 341 | |
| Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 455 | |
| Hourly Atomic | 57m | 72 | |
| Hourly Racing Kings | 57m | 48 | |
| Hourly Blitz | 57m | 268 | |
| ≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 163 | |
| Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 317 | |
| ≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 152 | |
| Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 37 | |
| Hourly Crazyhouse | 27m | 10 | |
| ≤1300 Bullet | 27m | 12 | |
| Hourly Bullet | 27m | 98 | |
| Chess960 Warm-up Arena December '24 | 55m | 45 | |
| Chess960 Titled Arena December '24 | 3h | 46 |
Our November 2024 free and open databases are available for download! You can now also find the games, puzzles, and engine evaluations on Hugging Face - with billions of chess data points to download, query, and stream. We're excited to see what you will build!
We have added many improvements and new features to Lichess over the past month! See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog.
Watch Game 9 of the World Championship now on Twitch and YouTube with us and our commentators GM Thomas Beerdsen and GM Felix Blohberger!
Both players had their chances in Game 8 of the World Championship, but in the end GMs Ding Liren and Gukesh D drew again. Read what happened in our recap blog, with annotations by GM Maxime Lagarde.
Join us now on Twitch and YouTube for Game 8 of the World Championship, with live commentary from GMs Felix Blohberger and Thomas Beerdsen! Replay yesterday's exciting game with annotations by GM Maxime Lagarde.
The second rest day of the World Championship 2024 is over and we are back now with live commentary on Twitch and YouTube - today with our host GM Felix Blohberger and returning guest GM Nils Grandelius!
Our December 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, is about to start! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.
