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WCC 2024 Round 14: Gukesh Becomes the Youngest World Champion in History
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"All Izz Well": Overcoming Negative Emotions on and off the Chessboard
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Mastering King Safety: Practical Tips for Every Phase of the Game
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New Instructive Chess Game - Random Playing with Choices!
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All Top Chess Players Are Superstitious — Or Are They?
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Thinking in counterthreats
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10. Heusenstammer Sparkassen Open - GM Grigoryan wins ahead of GMs Peng & Sivuk
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Game 14: Ding Liren vs Gukesh D | World Chess Championship 2024
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Can my club win the local chess league?
Open tournaments
More »Racing Kings Shield | 6h | 210 | |
Weekly Blitz | 3h | 2093 | |
≤2000 Rapid | 57m | 386 | |
≤1300 Blitz | 57m | 95 | |
≤1500 SuperBlitz | 57m | 99 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 56 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 369 | |
Hourly Three-check | 57m | 41 | |
≤1700 Bullet | 27m | 104 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | ||
Weekly King of the Hill | 3h |
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Your 2024 Lichess recap is ready! See a personalised look back at your chess activity this year.
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Congratulations to Полина Янученко1 for winning our Streamers Battle December 2024! Congrats also to Ronaldo Playing Chess for taking 2nd place, to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 3rd place, and to IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,792 registered players!
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Our December 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 arena.
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Congrats @joddle on winning the Lichess Game of the Month November 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
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The Lichess Bundesliga, world's biggest online chess league, celebrates its 500th edition today after over 4 years - starting at 19:00 UTC!
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18-year-old GM Gukesh D has become the youngest World Chess Champion in history! Read our final recap blog and find out what happened in Game 14 against GM Ding Liren.
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Watch the final classical game of the 2024 World Championship now on Twitch and YouTube with us and our commentators GM Ivan Cheparinov, IM Laura Unuk & GM Felix Blohberger!