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Blog posts from 2021
FIDE World Rapid Chess Championship - Recap
A recap from the World Rapid Championships 2021
Dec 28, 2021
Magnus wins First Post-World Championship Titled Arena and a Big Event Tomorrow
Dec 20, 2021
Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi: FIDE World Championship Round 11
Magnus Carlsen defends World Championship title for the 4th time
Dec 11, 2021
Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi: FIDE World Championship Round 10
10th Round of 14 in the World Championships
Dec 9, 2021
Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi: FIDE World Championship Round 9
9th Round of 14 in the World Championships
Dec 8, 2021
Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi: FIDE World Championship Round 8
8th Round of 14 in the World Championships
Dec 6, 2021
Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi: FIDE World Championship Round 7
7th round of 14 in the World Championships - and Lichess Titled Arena results
Dec 5, 2021
Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi: FIDE World Championship Round 6
A new record for longest World Championship game in the 6th of 14 clashes between Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi
Dec 4, 2021
Exact, Exacting: Who is the Most Accurate World Champion?
Do chess players dream of electric fish?
Dec 2, 2021
Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi: FIDE World Championship Round 5
The 5th of 14 clashes between Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi
Dec 1, 2021
Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi: FIDE World Championship Round 4
The 4th/14 clash between Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi
Nov 30, 2021
Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi: FIDE World Championship Round 3
The 3rd/14 clash between Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi
Nov 29, 2021
Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi: FIDE World Championship Round 2
The 2nd/14 clash between Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi
Nov 28, 2021
Carlsen versus Nepomniachtchi: FIDE World Championship Round 1
The first clash of 14 between Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi
Nov 27, 2021
World Championship 2021 Officially Opens in Dubai
Insight, thoughts and predictions as the Chess World Championship officially opens
Nov 25, 2021
GM Oleksandr Bortnyk wins November Bullet Titled Arena
Nov 22, 2021
FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Riga Recap - Rounds 7 to 11, and the Tal Memorial Blitz
The Grand Swiss in Riga continued after the rest day, which saw players visit a national park just outside the capital.
Nov 14, 2021
GM Bortnyk wins Titled Arena
Nov 7, 2021
Controversial Grand Swiss Underway in Riga: Rounds 1 - 6 Recap
The most prestigious Swiss event in the world is well underway - but at what cost?
Nov 3, 2021
How long does it take to "get good"?
An investigation of the Lichess database
Oct 27, 2021
Announcing the Personal Opening Explorer
Indexing RandomMoverBot ...
Oct 23, 2021
FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Will Proceed Despite Lockdown in Latvia
Oct 22, 2021
IM Minh Le Wins October Bullet Titled Arena
Oct 18, 2021
Anonymous IM Wins Titled Arena in Climactic Final Game
Oct 4, 2021
FIDE Picks Breast Implants as a Sponsor for Women's Chess
Sep 30, 2021
Sparrow Chess Catches Streamers Team Battle Victory
Sep 22, 2021
Nihal Sarin Wins Titled Arena
Sep 19, 2021
Norway Chess Kicks Off Despite Nepomniachtchi Niggle
The 9th edition of Norway Chess kicks off - despite Nepomniachtchi missing his flight
Sep 8, 2021
Anonymous GM wins Titled Arena, again. (...and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov!)
Sep 6, 2021
Titled Arena Announcement(s)
Announcing our schedule for upcoming Titled Arenas!
Aug 28, 2021
European Women Championship - Elina Danielian Wins, Upcoming Players Impress
Aug 24, 2021
Titled Arena won by Penguins and Hot Tubs
Aug 22, 2021
Penguin Takes Time out From the Marathon to win the Titled Arena.
Aug 9, 2021
FIDE World Cup - Delight for Duda as Carlsen crushes Fedoseev
Duda wins the World Cup, as Karjakin comes second and Carlsen wins the play-off for third
Aug 8, 2021
FIDE World Cup - Carlsen out of Final as Kosteniuk Wins Women’s
Women's winner is known as Carlsen is knocked out of the Open final
Aug 4, 2021
FIDE World Cup - Karjakin Circumvents Shankland; Vidit Vexed by Duda
Semifinalists and finalists known as tournament approaches end
Aug 2, 2021
FIDE World Cup - Round 5 Report: 6 of 8 Games go to Tense Tiebreaks
Excitement in the tiebreaks as Carlsen narrowly holds on
Jul 28, 2021
FIDE World Cup - Round 4 Report: Dubov, Andreikin, and Artemiev Whittled Down
Jul 25, 2021
FIDE World Cup - Round 3 Report: Caruana, Mamedyarov, Giri Out
Round 3 of the FIDE World Cup finished yesterday with a series of surprises, upsets and interesting games.
Jul 22, 2021
Fat Fritz is not the Only Ripoff and now ChessBase is Getting Sued
Jul 20, 2021
Andrew Tang wins Titled Arena
With a 50 points lead!
Jul 19, 2021
World Cup Wobbles after Covid-19 scare as Aronian and others withdraw; Concerns for Caruana
Round 2 of the World Cup continues, as the first impact of Covid-19 is felt.
Jul 18, 2021
World Cup Kicks Off in Sochi
Jul 14, 2021
Magnus Loses 2 Chess Games in 3 hours (and Wins a Titled Arena)
Jul 6, 2021
Stockfish 14 has arrived!
Jul 4, 2021
Vladislav Artemiev wins Katara 2021
Jun 25, 2021
Katara Qualifiers Advance to Face Magnus, and a Weekend of Bullet Chess on Lichess
Jun 21, 2021
Announcing the Katara Bullet Championship 2021 with World Champion Magnus Carlsen
The world's best bullet players gather to see who comes out on top.
Jun 12, 2021
You Don't Get to Know Who Won the Titled Arena, Sorry.
Jun 6, 2021
Naroditsky Wins Third Titled Arena
May 24, 2021
Aleksei Sarana Wins His First Titled Arena.
May 10, 2021
Candidates over as the Candidate is found: Round 13 report
Apr 26, 2021
Titled Arena Announcement(s)
Announcing our schedule for upcoming Titled Arenas!
Apr 25, 2021
Nepo one step closer to victory: Candidates Round 12 Report
Apr 24, 2021
Giri wins again: Round 11 Report.
Apr 23, 2021
Why Lichess will always be free.
Apr 22, 2021
Nepo extends his lead: Candidates Round 10 report
Apr 21, 2021
Anish Ascendant: Round 9 Candidates Report
Apr 20, 2021
The Candidates Resumes One Year Later.
Apr 20, 2021
"I used to win these tournaments without too much sweat, not anymore"
Apr 18, 2021
Bortnyk Reigns Supreme
With a few of the usual favourites distracted by their streams...
Apr 4, 2021
Lichess OTB Mode (not really)
Back to basics?
Apr 1, 2021
Andrew Tang holds off Magnus, wins March Bullet Titled Arena.
Mar 22, 2021
New feature: Puzzle Racer
Competitive Puzzle Storm is here, see you on the race-track!
Mar 19, 2021
First Russian-only Titled Arena won by Vladimir Fedoseev
Mar 7, 2021
Alireza wins a 13th Titled Arena.
Another dominant victory.
Feb 23, 2021
Stockfish 13 NNUE on Lichess
The latest release of the strong open source engine is now available in your browser!
Feb 22, 2021
Fat Fritz 2 is a rip-off
An important message from open source chess organizations.
Feb 18, 2021
Shamsiddin Wins Variant Titled Arena.
Not Chess, not exactly, but close.
Feb 7, 2021
Puzzlers on the Storm
More puzzling, more faster
Jan 27, 2021
Some Puzzling Analysis
A quick look at how the new puzzle system is going!
Jan 18, 2021
Daniel Naroditsky wins the first Bullet TA of the year
...and for (surprisingly) only his second time!
Jan 17, 2021
Introducing Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine
A guest post from the Maia Team
Jan 16, 2021
Return of the GMs
Jan 3, 2021
Reconnecting