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Lichess: A review of 2024!
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The 11 Best Bloggers on Lichess
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Chess960/Freestyle Positions in Chess From Position!
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How more than 50,000 children in Germany learn and train chess
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Creating Your Own Stockfish in the Cloud
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The Alapin Gambit - Refuted!
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What If Magnus Carlsen Played Bobby Fischer?
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How to Avoid Time Pressure In OTB Chess
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The Power of Waiting: Strategic Patience in Chess
Open tournaments
More »≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 471 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 433 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 68 | |
Hourly Racing Kings | 57m | 25 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 220 | |
≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 162 | |
Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 270 | |
≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 282 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 19 | |
Hourly Crazyhouse | 27m | 19 | |
≤1300 Bullet | 27m | 20 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 89 |
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Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning our Streamers Battle January 2025! Congrats also to Moon Club for taking 2nd place, to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 3rd place, and to Sadistic Minions for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,811 registered players!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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Let’s look back at everything we’ve achieved last year in our review of 2024!