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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

Weekly Chess960 Team Battle every Saturday, 11:00 UTC

Resources:

• Detailed Guide to Chess960 with history, strategy and opening tips as well as further resources.

• Table of all 960 starting positions (PDF)

• Chess960 Generator

• Castling Rules

Tournaments Schedule:

TimeDayEventTime Control
HourlyEvery dayHourly Chess960Various
19:00 UTCTuesdaysWeekly Chess960 Rapid Arena10+2
19:00 UTCWednesdaysWeekly Chess960 SuperBlitz Arena3+0
11:00 UTCSaturdaysWeekly Chess960 SuperBlitz Team Battle3+0

  • The Lichess Chess960 Titled Arenas twice every 6 months.

  • The Hourly Tournaments

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

Chess 960 league with 20+20: https://www.lichess4545.com/chess960/

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.

• Lichess Arena Ranking

• 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

Hourly Chess960 Arena3+0 • Chess960 • Rated • 55mInner team
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Chess960 BOTs Arena3+1 • Chess960 • Rated • 55mInner team
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Hourly Chess960 Arena3+2 • Chess960 • Rated • 55mInner team
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Hourly Chess960 Arena10+0 • Chess960 • Rated • 2hInner team
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Hourly Chess960 Arena3+2 • Chess960 • Rated • 55mInner team
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Forum

Lichess Discord Server now has Chess960 channel!shasswath1 •

cool

Can we do Practice tournamentsshasswath1 •

So what now?

Can we do Practice tournamentsshasswath1 •

Dude it's noice man

Can we do Practice tournamentsshasswath1 •

Can we though? Like really, chess is a game with lots of tatics but in chess960, there is no opening theory. So why don't we settle ourselves and try to make our own techniques in chess960 and try it …

Can we do Practice tournamentsshasswath1 •

It'd be very nice topractice some tournaments for the crazy real tournament of chess960. Can we try to do this? Make sure it's having no berserk and all that.

Lichess Discord Server now has Chess960 channel!TeamChess960 •

Lichess Discord Server has just recently launched variant channels! Think of it as a space to share and discuss your Chess960 games, share and solve cool tactics or puzzles together, find training par…

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