When Levon Aronian made a quick draw against co-leader Dommaraju Gukesh in the final round of the WR Chess Masters, it seemed like an uncharacteristically timid move for the Armenian grandmaster, who’s long been known as one of the most creative and aggressive players on the tour. But it was all part of his strategy: …
Shohreh Bayat had not been planning to take a stand, but sometimes it happens anyway. She was working as the Chief Arbiter for the 2020 Women’s World Championship held in China when the President of the Chess Federation from her native Iran sent a message that got under her skin. “The president of the chess …
Like that, 2022 is over! Is it just us, or does it feel like it has flown by? 2022 has been an unprecedentedly eventful year for chess, and it’s been no exception for us at Lichess. Thank you to everyone who makes it possible – to all those who volunteer, to all those who share …
For the first few millennia, life on this planet made a certain degree of sense. Creatures would eat, reproduce and subsequently die followed by their offspring doing roughly the same. Over time, this process led to various mutations which, once in a great while, helped with either the eating or reproducing. Then, not much more …
The November Titled Arena 960 does a 360 with Bortnyk first, Carlsen seventh Read More »
PHOTO: FIDE/Timur Sattarov Four players, two games, two draws, the first day of Women’s Candidate’s Pool B was concluded. The event is taking place from 29 November to 11 December, and the winner qualifies to the Candidates finals, facing Pool A winner, Lei Tingjie, for the right to participate in the Women’s World Championship Match …
Women Candidates Pool B Kicks Off in Khiva, Uzbekistan Read More »
In July of 2021 we reported that legal proceedings had begun between the developers of Stockfish, the world’s strongest chess engine, and Chessbase GmbH, developers of various popular chess software. After more than a year of wrangling, that lawsuit has now come to an end with the parties agreeing to a settlement. Per the agreement, …
The anonymous Grandmaster “Kontrajako” edged out mutdpro (GM Minh Le Tuan) in last Saturday’s Titled Arena with MatthewG-p4p (IM Matvey Galchenko) coming in third (an auspicious result for the young Russian International Master). The top two places were decided in the final minute when kontraJako prevailed against MahammadMuradli2003 whilst mutdpro lost to fourth-place finisher Zhigalko_Sergei. …
KontraJako narrowly wins TA Arena ahead of mutdpro, MatthewG-p4p Read More »
Because of our community’s generosity, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve hired a full-time mobile developer to work on the Lichess mobile applications available on iOS and Android, starting from 1 November 2022. The number of users who access Lichess via the mobile app has only increased year on year for several years, and we …
Last month, we published a blog about Lichess’s charity nonprofit status. In this post, we want to dive deeper into Lichess’s history, how we’re currently set up, and our plans for the future. Between 2010 and 2016, virtually all of Lichess’s costs were covered by Lichess’s founder and main developer Thibault Duplessis. Lichess at the …
In a month full of surprises and controversy in the world of chess, yet another bombshell failed to occur when National Master John Chernoff (ZugAddict on lichess.org) was at no point a significant factor in yesterday’s Titled Arena, finishing 141st out of 366 participants. When asked by absolutely no one to explain his unremarkable performance, …
Bortnyk victorious after NM ZugAddict somehow fails to win October TA Read More »
