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The 2024 World Chess Championship match between defending champion Ding Liren and challenger Gukesh D will be held in Singapore from 20 November to 15 December, FIDE announced on its website.
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Our Game of the Month June Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in June 2024 until 5 July! The winner will be announced on 14 July, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
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See what our developers and community contributors have been working on over the past month in our updated changelog. Thanks to Bsmick6 and henrique-barros, you can now enable board coordinates on all squares - including the Coordinates Trainer!
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At the age of 10 years, 8 months and 16 days, FM Faustino Oro is set to become the youngest International Master in chess history after a draw against IM Fernando Valenzuela Gomez in Round 9 of the Cerrado IM Barcelona! IM Cristian Andres Hernandez took 1st place with better tiebreaks than Oro.
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10-year-old FM Faustino Oro needs at least a draw with Black against IM Fernando Valenzuela Gomez in the final round of the Cerrado IM Barcelona to achieve his third IM norm and become the youngest International Master ever! Follow the game now in our broadcast.
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We interviewed the former Women's World Champion and next Women's World Championship challenger GM Tan Zhongyi after her dominant win in this year's Women's Candidates Tournament. Many thanks to WFM Yilin Li for the translation! Read the interview here.
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The Superbet Romania Chess Classic 2024 has started! Watch GMs Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Gukesh D, Anish Giri and others compete over 9 rounds in our broadcast until 5 July.
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Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Titled Arena June 2024, 35 points ahead of runner-up GM Nihal Sarin! GM Minh Lê took 3rd place.
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Our next 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 2 hours! You will have the chance again to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!
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Lichess turns 14 years old today! Thanks to all our users, contributors and supporters. Join the celebration tournament here.
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You can now add a custom flair to your studies, choosing from over 3,000 icons in the study settings, that appears on all study pages.
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GM Arjun Erigaisi is the clear winner of the 5th Stepan Avagyan Memorial, 1.5 points ahead of a group including GMs Samuel Sevian, Amin Tabatabaei and Bogdan-Daniel Deac. Arjun is now ranked no. 4 in the world with a live rating of 2778 - 17 rating points above his peak!
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Congratulations to Target_B for winning the Streamers Battle June '24! Congrats also to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for taking 2nd place, SergeyVoronChess NEW for coming in 3rd place and IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 2,096 registered players!
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Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4, starting in just 6 hours!
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Due to popular demand, you can now donate to support Lichess in 112 additional currencies.
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Congrats @Javier1009 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month May 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
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GM Nodirbek Yakubboev, being the lowest rated participant of the tournament, has won the UzChess Cup 2024 Masters on slightly better tiebreaks than runner-up GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov! GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov is the winner of the Challengers and GM Vitaly Sivuk took 1st place in the Futures section.
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Watch the final round of the UzChess Cup 2024 now with us and our host IM Irene Sukandar on YouTube and Twitch! GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Nodirbek Yakubboev still share the lead and play with White against the two players 0.5 points behind them, GMs Alexey Sarana and Yu Yangyi respectively.
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IM, and soon-to-be GM, Kazybek Nogerbek is the World Junior Champion 2024, beating GM Emin Ohanyan on tiebreak criteria, both with 8.5/11 points! IM Divya Deshmukh has won the World Junior Girls Championship undefeated with only 2 draws, closely followed by WIM Mariam Mkrtchyan, half a point behind!
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Following a complaint by the Ukrainian Chess Federation, Andrey Baryshpolets and Peter Heine Nielsen, the FIDE Ethics Commission has reprimanded FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich and excluded the Russian Chess Federation from membership for 2 years. FIDE and Dvorkovich want to appeal the decision.
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YouTuber Paralogical has analysed our free and open database of over 5 billion games to find The rarest move in chess in an entertaining and informative video! The open source code behind the analysis is available on GitHub.
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Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 4 of the UzChess Cup 2024, hosted by IM Irene Sukandar and featuring player camera feeds from the playing hall! GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Nodirbek Yakubboev and Yu Yangyi are currently sharing the lead with 2 out of 3 points.
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Congratulations to GM Dmitry Andreikin for winning our Blitz Titled Arena June '24 with a 13-point lead! GM Akshat Chandra berserked all of his games to take 2nd place and IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher finished 3rd.
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In just 3 hours, you'll have the chance to play against some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!