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Lichess 2024 Half-Year Update
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How to prepare for a chess tournament abroad ... language-wise
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Tal Forces a Queen Sacrifice and Hunts Some Kings - HCWMTS Part 6
Leaderboard
More »GM nihalsarin2004 | 3352 | |
GM deacbogdan1 | 2974 | |
GM DrVitman![]() | 2949 | |
GM cjota95 | 2533 | |
KonstantinKornienko![]() | 2648 | |
GRXbullet![]() | 2818 | |
GM Zhigalko_Sergei | 2802 | |
catask | 2679 | |
GM penguingim1![]() | 2660 | |
AntichessEpico | 2476 | |
CM Statham_13![]() | 2512 | |
RayHolt | 2736 | |
QueenEatingDragon![]() | 2488 |
Tournament winners
More »Open tournaments
More »Daily Antichess | 1h | 34 | |
≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 243 | |
Hourly Chess960 | 57m | 27 | |
≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 133 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 284 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 30 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 136 | |
Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 161 | |
≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 103 | |
Hourly Three-check | 57m | 20 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | ||
Hourly Bullet | 27m | ||
≤1300 Bullet | 27m | ||
Titled Arena July 2024 | 2h | 97 |
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For the third year in a row, GM Liêm Quang Lê has won the Biel Masters, ahead of GMs Haik Martirosyan and R Praggnanandhaa. GM Salem Saleh came out on top of the first ever Biel Challengers tournament.
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The last stage of the Biel Masters has started! GMs R Praggnanandhaa, Liêm Quang Lê, Abhimanyu Mishra and Haik Martirosyan are competing in a final round-robin tournament until 25 July, while the winner of the Challengers will be decided between GMs Salem Saleh, Alexander Donchenko and R Vaishali.
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This month's week of Variant Shield Arenas starts in just 1 hour with the 3+2 Chess960 Arena! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's arena.
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For the next 24 hours, all rated games played on Lichess with a minimum time control of 3 min + 2 sec, or equivalent such as 5+0, and lasting at least 15 moves will count towards the FIDE 100 World Record Attempt for the most chess games played online and offline in one day!
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Lichess releases a new Broadcaster App, making it easier to broadcast OTB events to a live Lichess Broadcast. Read all about it here.
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Watch the historic New York 1924 Centennial, featuring former U16 World Champion GM Aleksandr Lenderman, speed chess expert GM Andrew Tang and two-time U.S. Women's Champion WGM Jennifer Yu until 21 July in our broadcast and on the Marshall Chess Club Twitch channel with IM Luís Henrique Coelho.