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WCC 2024 Round 11: Ding Blunders a Piece in a Complicated Slugfest

IM theScot

Life Hacks for Getting to IM

stagnation graphGM NoelStuder

The Secret to Loving Chess Even During a Plateau

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WCC 2024 Round 10: A French-Like London

FM Hurburt

Why is Gukesh avoiding the French?

CM HGabor

Thinking in counterthreats

GM peradetlic83

Playing Against Ivanchuk: Importance of Move Orders

GM Oleg Korneev OTB at the Deizisauer Neckar OpenFM jeffforever

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

GM GMSzabo

An unbelievable blunder in game 11 - The tension is very high

Yesterday GM Gukesh D managed to take the lead over GM Ding Liren for the first time in the 2024 World Championship match: Can GM Ding Liren make a comeback today? Watch Game 12 now with us and our hosts IM Laura Unuk & GM Felix Blohberger on YouTube and Twitch!

Watch Game 11 of the World Championship now live on Twitch and YouTube with us and our hosts IM Laura Unuk and GM Felix Blohberger!

Congratulations to GM @caching for winning our Chess960 Titled Arena December 2024! GM Vahap Şanal took 2nd place and GM Mitrabha Guha finished 3rd.

Our Chess960 3+2 Warm-up Arena starts at 17:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Chess960 Titled Arena!

Join us now on Twitch and YouTube for Game 10 of the World Championship, with live commentary from our stream hosts IM Laura Unuk and GM Felix Blohberger!

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.