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Round 14: Gukesh and Zhongyi are officially the World Championship Challengers
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Candidates Round 13: Gukesh takes the lead, Zhongyi pulls ahead
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Adapting nnue-pytorch's binary position format for Lichess
Leaderboard
More »GM Night-King96 | 3259 | |
GM muisback | 3067 | |
GM DrVitman![]() | 2928 | |
IM Unicorn7Love![]() | 2745 | |
Dmitriychesser![]() | 2540 | |
catask | 2945 | |
GM Zhigalko_Sergei | 2725 | |
catask | 2640 | |
GM Zhigalko_Sergei | 2628 | |
Antichess_Valentino | 2467 | |
Statham_13![]() | 2436 | |
Eudemian![]() | 2707 | |
QueenEatingDragon![]() | 2480 |
Tournament winners
More »Open tournaments
More »Racing Kings Shield | 6h | 154 | |
Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 923 | |
≤1300 SuperBlitz | 57m | 63 | |
Hourly Antichess | 57m | 140 | |
Weekly Blitz | 3h | 1213 | |
Daily SuperBlitz | 1h 30m | 1165 | |
≤2000 Blitz | 57m | 330 | |
≤1700 Rapid | 57m | 303 | |
Hourly Crazyhouse | 57m | 97 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 237 | |
≤1500 Bullet | 27m | 45 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 38 |
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Hear all about Lichess from our Director of Operations, Theo Wait, in ChessBase India's recent interview!
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Gukesh has won the 2024 Candidates in a dramatic finale, and is officially the new World Championship Challenger! More updates to come in our blog.
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Tan Zhongyi has won the 2024 Women's Candidates and will challenge Ju Wenjun for the Women's World Championship!
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Join us and our hosts IMs Irene Sukandar, Laura Unuk and Eric Rosen for Round 14 of the Candidates now on Twitch and YouTube! With 17-year-old Gukesh in the lead of the Open, 4 players still in contention to win and all of them playing each other, today could be historic!
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Watch Round 13 of the Candidates with us and our hosts IMs Irene Sukandar and Laura Unuk now on Twitch and YouTube! Get ready for a pivotal game in the three-way tied Open between leaders Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura & Tan Zhongyi vs Aleksandra Goryachkina in the Women's section among others.
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The final rest day of the Open and Women's Candidates is over: Check out our Round 12 recap blog with annotations from GM Brandon Jacobson and IM / WGM Padmini Rout ahead of the penultimate round, which starts at 18:45 UTC today.
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The European Women Chess Championship kicks off in less than 5 minutes in Rhodes, Greece, with 182 players from 35 countries participating! You can follow the games here.