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I want to improve, but I'm busy !!!

Congratulations Koosha Jaferian Fan Club for winning the Streamers Battle March '24 and $500 once again! Congrats also to Saqochess & friends and fan club for 2nd place ($300), IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS (3rd, $150) and IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club (4th, $100). Thanks to all 2868 registered players!

Our 3+2 Crazyhouse Shield Arena, the second of eight Variant Shield Arenas this month, starts in 2 hours! All the rules and conventions of standard chess apply, but captured pieces can be dropped back on the board. The winner gets a unique trophy and will keep it until next month's tournament.

Did you know that desktop users can explore studies and analysis without looking at the move list by enabling variation arrows in the hamburger menu? Press , , or shift by itself to cycle the next move in a branch. Press shift → and shift ← to quickly navigate to nearby variations.

Find your favourite OTB players on our new FIDE players page! Search by name and FIDE ID or click on a player name in a broadcast game and see all broadcast tournaments they played in. Federations are sorted by the top 10 players' average rating and the federation profile lists all of their players.

After the G.O.A.T. Challenge a month ago, Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner launch the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, consisting of five Chess960 tournaments per year, each held on a different continent. The first tournament will take place in India in November with a prize fund of $500,000.

The Yearly King of the Hill Arena starts in 1 hour! You win by moving your king to the center of the board, but otherwise standard chess rules apply, so checkmate is also possible.

Have a powerful computer that's always online? Want to contribute to Lichess? Now is a great time to request your fishnet key! As you may know, fishnet is the distributed program that powers the free server analysis on Lichess.