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FIDE Women’s Grand Prix Shymkent Round 9: Goryachkina Wins 130 WGP Points

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From Thinking to Doing: Your most important move

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Has the women's chess year gone as expected?

NDpatzer

Science of Chess: How does chess calculation depend on words vs. pictures?

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Behold Yet Again the Slightly Less Buggy Wonders of ClueChess

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What is chess to you?

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Chess Web Programming: Part One: Getting Started

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FIDE Women’s Grand Prix Shymkent Round 8: Status Quo Remains Unchanged

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You MUST Learn These Pawn Endgame Secrets

Congratulations to GM Vincent Keymer for winning our Blitz Titled Arena November! GM Brandon Jacobson took 2nd place, ahead of GM Daniel Naroditsky in 3rd place.

Our November 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 2 hours at 17:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!

GM Aleksandra Goryachkina has won the Shymkent FIDE Women's Grand Prix undefeated with five wins and four draws! Read our recap of the final round and find out what happened.

GM Arjun Erigaisi has climbed to world number 2 in the live ratings after beating GM Alexey Sarana in Round 3 of the Chennai Grandmasters!

More new features and improvements were added to Lichess last month! See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog.

Meet the Lichess Team in Berlin, Germany on Sunday 10th November from 16:00 until late in the evening! Check out our blog for more details.

Our November 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, starts at 16:00 UTC! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.