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Lichess Game of the Month: August '24

libraryToadofsky

Rules Are Boring

FM CheckRaiseMate

The Worst Way to Change Your Thought Process

For what use is a book (or blog post) without pictures?Marlonc

THINK Blog Volume 2 Chapter 1

FM nikhildixit

3 Unique Stalemates Under 20 Moves

GM peradetlic83

Facing the World's Best: How I Drew Against Magnus Carlsen

GM NoelStuder

The simple way to learn a new opening

FM Zig_Zag_Zug_Zwang

The Blueprint On How to Prepare Against Your Opponent

GM Avetik_ChessMood

7Q Method: Your Roadmap to Formulating Chess Plans in Any Position

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.

Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle on 21 October at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!

To better understand which moves led to three- and fivefold repetition draws, we now highlight them in the analysis, as in this game for example.

Thank you to the more than 38 contributors who made September one of our highest activity months! See what we've been working on in the updated changelog.

Join the 2nd Chess Day USA Arena, organised by the Connecticut State Chess Association, starting 5 October at 17:00 UTC - for 2 hours of 3+0 Blitz with a total prize fund of $600!

Together, we have now played over 6 billion rated standard games - and counting! All available for download in our free and open database.