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Pawn Sacrifice Against the English!?

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The Power of a Plan

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Congrats @WiNDim on winning the Lichess Game of the Month September 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of Google DeepMind that created AlphaZero, has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry!

Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Blitz Titled Arena October, 29 points ahead of runner-up GM Jakhongir Vakhidov, followed by GM Mitrabha Guha in 3rd place!

In just 3 hours, you'll have the chance to play against some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!

Follow the Global Chess League final between the teams of PBG Alaskan Knights with GM Anish Giri and Triveni Continental Knights with GM Alireza Firouzja in our broadcast starting at 13:45 UTC.

We now rotate the featured blogs on our homepage, giving you more variety and more authors the chance to have their blogs read by a wider audience.

Check out our new broadcast calendar! Sortable by year and month, you can find all our broadcasts much easier than before.