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You can now pin up to three of your favourite blog posts to your profile page by enabling the new "Sticky post" option in the blog settings. Many thanks to Yet Another Fred for implementing this feature!

Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning our Streamers Battle January 2025! Congrats also to Moon Club for taking 2nd place, to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 3rd place, and to Sadistic Minions for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,811 registered players!

Our January week of variant Shield Arenas starts at 16:00 UTC with the 3+2 Chess960 Arena! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.

Congratulations to GM Alireza Firouzja for winning our Titled Arena January! GM Andrew Tang took 2nd place, just one point ahead of GM Nihal Sarin in 3rd place.

Our January 1+0 Warm-up Arena begins in 3 hours at 17:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!

The Tata Steel Masters 2025 has started! Follow the games between World Champion Gukesh D, GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Arjun Erigaisi and more in our broadcast until 2nd February.

A new puzzle theme is now available: the Kill box mate. Select it from the Puzzle Themes page and start practicing. Many thanks to @dirkster99 for identifying and tagging over 3,000 Kill box mate puzzles!