We're sorry to see @Chess24com is being shut down, as many people predicted after the takeover. Diversity in the chess ecosystem is essential to avoid stagnation.
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History has been made! We have a new challenger for the World Chess Championship:
Congratulations to 17-year-old Gukesh for winning the 2024 #FIDECandidates - the youngest player ever to qualify for the World Championship match!
ALT Gukesh sits on a chair, smiling. (Picture: FIDE / Michal Walusza)
FIDE Director General Emil Sutovsky said in an interview that FIDE is the only non-profit chess body.
Surely it was an honest mistake, but Lichess, the second largest chess website in the world with more than 5 million games played daily, is a registered French non-profit.
Fun fact: @ChessifyMe uses Lichess's board and Stockfish as its engine, both free and open source. Every dish is better with cheese it seems! As a paid ambassador perhaps you shouldn't throw stones at the free things they profit from.
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Tomorrow we'll lose our blue checkmark. We don't think spending charitable donations on the new Twitter "verification" is worth it! Nothing is verified, anyone can buy it.
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This tournament was too popular for our servers! We're planning to restart with current results at a future date, taking into account the OTB tournament schedule and agadmator's wishes. We'll update everyone further as soon as we can
Congrats GM @ArjunErigaisi on claiming No. 2 in the chess live ranking! (Source: 2700chess.com) Do you think Arjun will become No. 1 in the live rating one day? #chess
ALT Congrats GM Arjun Erigaisi on claiming No. 2 in the chess live ranking! (Source: 2700chess.com) Do you think Arjun will become No. 1 in the live rating one day? #chess
Congratulations to World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen! 🎊🎉
Magnus Carlsen has just won against Ian Nepomniachtchi to take the match score to 7.5 - 3.5. Although Game 11 just ended, the format is best of 14 - so the Norwegian takes home his 5th @FIDE_chess World Championship title
Have you noticed the cookie popups that have invaded the internet like weeds? Do you know why Lichess doesn't have one? European law requires this UNLESS only cookies essential for the functioning of the site are used. Most sites use cookies for ads and tracking, lichess does not
Magnus Carlsen just set a new Blitz record on Lichess, with a rating of 3221 🤯 He's currently rated 200 points higher than #2!
lichess.org/@/DrNykterstein/…
Ever wondered who made the strongest knight fork on Lichess?
"Springerschach70", with the fitting username meaning "Knight check" in German, holds the record for most material forked!
Here's the game: lichess.org/1XSp4Qkp#48
Have you ever wanted to play Lichess with a physical board, but don't have an electronic board?
Now you can with just a webcam, and using free/libre open source software using computer vision developed by Alper Karayaman - more info in replies 👇
Lichess stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine and everyone worldwide who opposes Russia's invasion. Our hearts go out to all those affected, especially the millions of civilians sheltering in place or fleeing for safety. (1/2)
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Magnus Carlsen showed up in yesterday's Titled Arena. Let's take a look at the numbers
Berserking 94% of his games (meaning playing games with half the time) 🔥
15 wins in a row 👀
Performance: 3097 📈
Finished 48 points ahead of #2, GM Daniel Naroditsky 🏆
The goat is back 🐐
January was a month of records for Lichess 🎉
- 147,000 concurrent players
- 161 million games played
- More than 4 million active users
- Almost as many new accounts created as November and December combined
- 4 billion games in the Lichess DB
Such an amazing start to 2023!
ALT Development environment of the new app. On the left a text editor (vim) opened on one of the files of the mobile app source code and a terminal, on the right the iOS and Android emulators.
Congrats to @MagnusCarlsen for winning yesterday's Titled Arena under his new username DrChampionstein 🐐
And thanks to him for donating the $500 prize back to Lichess!
Praggnanandhaa, 18 years old, is now the youngest #FIDEWorldCup finalist in history! The record has stood since 2005, when Ponomariov (22) lost the final against Aronian (23).
White to move and Mate in 1 ! Only one correct solution - can you find it? #chesspuzzle#chesstactic
ALT White to move and Mate in 1 ! Only one correct solution - can you find it? White: King b2, Queen b7, Rooks a8 and a7, Bishops d4 and c2, Knights h7 and g4, pawns c3 and a2. Black: King g8, Queen h2, Rook b8.
Just days before the World Championship, Magnus Carlsen has set all-time records in both Blitz and Bullet on Lichess. There's a 200-point rating gap down to #2 in both rating categories 🤯
ALT White to move and ... ?
White: King a4, Rook g2, Bishops g1 and h1, Black: King f3, Queen c8, Rooks e6 and e2, Bishops c3 and f5, Knights d3 and g4, pawns c7, c4, d7, d6, d2, e5, f4, g3.
We turn 13 today! We've had 13 great chess years together - thank you all, you rock!
Celebrate with us in our Anniversary Arena: lichess.org/tournament/ygxIl…
ALLEZ REZA - GM Alireza Firouzja wins for France, gets a 3000+ tournament performance, a gold medal board prize... Oh, and will be the youngest chess player to ever hit a FIDE rating of 2800. How was everybody else's Sunday night?
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Ramirez is not the only one. According to interviews and documents reviewed by Lichess, another prominent American GM has also been accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, raising troubling questions about how chess orgs deal with such matters.
lichess.org/blog/ZNTniBEAACE…
Stockfish 17 is now available for analysis on Lichess! Thanks to the Stockfish team @stockfishchess for not only developing the best chess engine in the world, but also for making it free and open-source.
According to the first #freesoftware freedom, it is possible to use the program for private purposes.
I.e., if you're a world championship challenger that wants to privately play a game with your second that lives miles away, you can self-host lichess and share the IP. #NepoDing
Your turn! White to move and ... ? Stalemate? 🤔
#chesspuzzle
ALT Your turn! White to move and ...? Stalemate? 🤔
White: King h8, pawns a7, b3, c6, d2, e6, g4, g6, h5.
Black: King h6, pawns c7, d4, e7, g5, g7.
#chesspuzzle
This exact position has appeared in 32 games on Lichess, and White missed the winning blow in all of them!
Can you find it?
➡️lichess.org/training/K1wup
50 years on, echoes of Fischer v Spassky as an American defeats a Russian to win a World Champion title in Reykjavik.
Congratulations to @GMHikaru in his incredible Chess960 journey, starting in the Lichess CCC & NACCL Fischer Random Qualifiers and ending 2022 World Champion
Do you agree? D Expectation vs. reality #chessmeme
ALT Chess meme: how people think chess is: Attack, Strategy, Defense, choose two. How chess really is: openings, king safety, tactics, strategy etc., remember and use all of them in the best way or you lose quickly!
Stockfish 16 now available on lichess! Not only is it the best chess engine in the world, but it's also free and open source. Thank you, Stockfish! @stockfishchess
What a run by @MagnusCarlsen during yesterday's Blitz Titled Arena! Several records were broken:
30 wins in a row ✅
94% win rate ✅
Achieved the highest Blitz rating ever reached on Lichess: 3136✅
Oh, and he also donated the $500 prize back to Lichess. Thanks, champ!
.@chesscom will no longer be covering St. Louis Chess Club events "for the foreseeable future" 👏 Kudos for fighting for a safer future for women in chess!
Chess.com says it will suspend its relationship with another of the game’s powerful bodies, the St. Louis Chess Club, in the wake of allegations that the club overlooked accusations of sexual misconduct against a top grandmaster on.wsj.com/3OECyGN
Congratulations to both Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi on winning the joint 2024 FIDE World Blitz Championship title!
For the first time ever in World Chess Championship history, two players agreed to share the title! lichess.org/broadcast/fide-w…
ALT Photo of Ian Nepomniachtchi and Magnus Carlsen - Credits: Michal Walusza / FIDE on https://flic.kr/p/2qCTfji
Over 2023 concurrent players online have been higher than the lockdown and Queen's Gambit boom; servers stable so far (@agadmator knows how to take us down!)
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We do not yet have an estimated time when our servers will be back online and need to wait for our service provider to fix this as soon as possible. Thanks again for your patience.
🔥🖥️🔥 Several of the Lichess servers burnt down in a datacenter fire tonight. No-one was harmed. Thanks to our zealous sysadmin and his backups, all we lost was 24h of puzzle history. Read more about the disaster: datacenterknowledge.com/upti…
Lichess believes chess should be inclusive and welcoming to all, regardless of sex, gender, colour, creed, and age.
It's refreshing to see FIDE take a zero-tolerance approach to sexism. Removing GM Smirin as a commentator immediately for his remarks was the right thing to do.
We hope that @fide_chess will reconsider their rules about transgender players, which in our view seem discriminatory and potentially harmful. We urge FIDE to review the situation, consult with players who would be affected, and work towards a more inclusive solution.