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Typical mistakes - Defending against unsound attacks
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Adapting nnue-pytorch's binary position format for Lichess
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Round 14: Gukesh and Zhongyi are officially the World Championship Challengers
Leaderboard
More »GM Night-King96 | 3266 | |
GM aspiringstar | 2998 | |
GM DrVitman![]() | 2928 | |
IM Unicorn7Love![]() | 2745 | |
Dmitriychesser![]() | 2542 | |
catask | 2973 | |
GM Zhigalko_Sergei | 2743 | |
catask | 2644 | |
GM Zhigalko_Sergei | 2630 | |
Antichess_Valentino | 2481 | |
CM sutcunuri | 2403 | |
Eudemian![]() | 2718 | |
QueenEatingDragon![]() | 2480 |
Tournament winners
More »Open tournaments
More »Hourly Bullet | 27m | 288 | |
≤1500 Bullet | 27m | 52 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 83 | |
Hourly Horde | 27m | 18 | |
Sicilian Defense Rapid | 1h 57m | 12 | |
Hourly HyperBullet | 27m | ||
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | ||
≤1300 Blitz | 57m | ||
≤1500 SuperBlitz | 57m | ||
≤1700 Bullet | 27m | ||
Hourly Blitz | 57m | ||
≤2000 Rapid | 57m | ||
Titled Arena Warm-up April '24 | 1h 55m | 633 | |
Titled Arena April '24 | 2h | 100 |
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Hear all about Lichess from our Director of Operations, Theo Wait, in ChessBase India's recent interview!
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Gukesh has won the 2024 Candidates in a dramatic finale, and is officially the new World Championship Challenger! More updates to come in our blog.
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Tan Zhongyi has won the 2024 Women's Candidates and will challenge Ju Wenjun for the Women's World Championship!
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Join us and our hosts IMs Irene Sukandar, Laura Unuk and Eric Rosen for Round 14 of the Candidates now on Twitch and YouTube! With 17-year-old Gukesh in the lead of the Open, 4 players still in contention to win and all of them playing each other, today could be historic!
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Watch Round 13 of the Candidates with us and our hosts IMs Irene Sukandar and Laura Unuk now on Twitch and YouTube! Get ready for a pivotal game in the three-way tied Open between leaders Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura & Tan Zhongyi vs Aleksandra Goryachkina in the Women's section among others.
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The final rest day of the Open and Women's Candidates is over: Check out our Round 12 recap blog with annotations from GM Brandon Jacobson and IM / WGM Padmini Rout ahead of the penultimate round, which starts at 18:45 UTC today.