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Round 14: Gukesh and Zhongyi are officially the World Championship Challengers

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The Candidates in 13 Graphs

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Typical mistakes - Defending against unsound attacks

Congratulations to GM Alireza Firouzja for winning the Titled Arena April '24! Runner-up GM Daniel Naroditsky was just 4 points behind and third place went to GM Andrew Tang, who finished the tournament with 7 berserked wins in a row!

In 2 hours, you will have the chance again to face some of the titled players in our 1+0 Bullet Warm-up Arena before they enter the Titled Arena!

Want to learn and practise chessboard coordinates intuitively? We have the perfect solution: Voice recognition in our Coordinates Trainer! Select "Name square" and click the voice recognition button at the bottom to get started.

Hear all about Lichess from our Director of Operations, Theo Wait, in ChessBase India's recent interview!

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.

Tan Zhongyi has won the 2024 Women's Candidates and will challenge Ju Wenjun for the Women's World Championship!

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!