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WCC 2024 Round 9: A Moral Victory for Ding

Lichess

WCC 2024 Round 8: A Double Advantage English

overgeared

Rounds 4, 5, and 6: Draws Filled with Drama and Missed Opportunities

CM HGabor

Effective training methods - calculation training

IM theScot

Life Hacks for Getting to IM

FM Hurburt

Why is Gukesh avoiding the French?

GM Oleg Korneev OTB at the Deizisauer Neckar OpenFM jeffforever

Interview with GM Oleg Korneev - Former Top 20 & very active OTB player

BenjiPortheault

10,000 hours? Understanding the conditions for expert learning

Lichess

Lichess Game of the Month: October '24

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.