Lichess Chess960
Welcome to the official Lichess Chess960 Team!
We are the home of Chess960 fans across Lichess. Join the team for tournaments and other community-driven Chess960 events. Everyone is welcome to join!
VOTE here for the time control you would like to see more for Chess960 Tournaments
Resources:
• Detailed Guide to Chess960 with history, strategy and opening tips as well as further resources.
• Table of all 960 starting positions (PDF)
Tournaments Schedule:
| Time | Day | Event | Time Control |
|---|---|---|---|
| Every hour* | Every day | Hourly Chess960 | Various |
| 19:00 UTC | Wednesdays | Weekly Chess960 Blitz Arena | 3+0 |
| 11:00 UTC | Saturdays | Weekly Chess960 Team Battle | 3+0 |
*Every hour, when there is no hourly created by Lichess itself, there will be tournament created by this official team
Links to these regular tournaments can be found below , if you scroll down a bit or here.
Additionally, if you are fan of team battles, you can find Daily Chess960 Team Battles hosted by Fischer Random Chess Center
Community:
• Share and discuss your games here
• Feel free to create a topic in the forum if you have questions, want to give feedback, or make suggestion for tournament ideas, events, format or any kind of thing.
• Chess960 versions for other variants, such as Crazyhouse960 and Atomic960 can be played on Pychess. Every 2nd Monday of the month, Crazyhouse960 Shield takes place here
Lichess official variant teams
Lichess Chess960 • Lichess King of the Hill • Lichess Three-check • Lichess Antichess • Lichess Atomic • Lichess Horde • Lichess Racing Kings • Lichess Crazyhouse
Tournaments
Forum
ID 518 is the standard chess set.
I know this is not something specific to this team, but it's particularly bad here as the additional FRC tournaments are a big part of the appeal when joining. It's better to be paired in a tournament
See here: [Regulations for the 2022 FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship](handbook.fide.com/files/handbook/FRCCRegulations2022.pdf) What do you think? # Championship privilege - full for
Hi, visualdennis Thanks for your actions and for tagging me in the discussion. @visualdennis said in #7: > Considering the free time slots ... You have plenty of free time slots for 15 10. P
sadly, non-stop "twitch" tournaments are not longer time controls... 1/2 + 0 tournaments in FRC? jeez, what a joke for most players... i'm sorry, but these aren't time controls for learning to pla
@gute321 Considering the free time slots, i'm afraid that is bit too hard to squeeze, 10+15 would require a long tournament duration..Maybe in the future, but currently let's see how this goes first.
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