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We're not going anywhere. Free chess, for everyone, forever.

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@MagnusCarlsen @chesscom sup

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For every 10 likes this gets, I will ask ChatGPT to make this pawn a little stronger.

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Among all games played on Lichess, this is the game where the mated player had the biggest material advantage 👀

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Been away from chess for a couple of days, did we miss anything exciting?

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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. Lichess is a charity and will never be sold. Free chess, for everyone, forever!

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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!

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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.

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free

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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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@mitch_chess @ChessifyMe because free is only cheese in the mousetrap

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You can download all rated games (4 billion standard games!) played on Lichess from our database. Use them for research, commercial purpose, publication, anything you like. You can download, modify and redistribute them, without asking for permission.

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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. You might not see us in your "for you" tab, as Twitter isn't planning to promote those who don't pay.

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Twitter Blue is now available globally! Sign up today to get your blue checkmark, prioritized ranking in conversations, half ads, long Tweets, Bookmark Folders, custom navigation, Edit Tweet, Undo Tweet, and more. Sign up here:

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Magnus Carlsen just logged on and won 10 Bullet games in a row against the 3rd highest rated player 🐐

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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

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What are your NYE plans? 🤣 What else? 🤔 #chess

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3 years

Nice

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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

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What are your Valentine’s Day plans? We are there for you 🥰🤣 #chess #chessmeme

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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

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Congratulations to @GMHikaru for winning the Agadmator Christmas Arena! 🎉

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Magnus Carlsen just set a new Blitz record on Lichess, with a rating of 3221 🤯 He's currently rated 200 points higher than #2 !

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3 years

We recently crossed 1 million accounts active in a 24 hour period!

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Thibault on his reaction to Magnus joining Lichess:

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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:

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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 👇

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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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Hey @anishgiri , do you mean something like this? 😉

Anish Giri

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Can someone run a centipawn loss analysis (or a better metric if there is one) on all the recent WCh matches to compare the quality of the games?

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Your turn on the Chessmas tree! White to Mate in 2 - how?

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Happy #Pride month! Lichess is for everyone, chess is for everyone! 🏳️‍🌈

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why do i hear boss music?

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You can download all rated games (4.6 billion standard games!) from our database. Use them for research, commercial purpose, publication, anything you like. You can download, modify and redistribute them, without asking for permission. Always free.

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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 🐐

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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!

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Want to get into the festive spirit? Try a few games with the holiday horsey piece set!

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The development of the NEW app is progressing!

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We just broke into the top 1,000 websites on Alexa for the first time ever!🎉🎉🎉

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We just passed 100,000 followers! 🎉🎉🎉 A big thanks to all of you! 🎉🎉🎉 Free chess for everyone forever! 🎉🎉🎉

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Daily player peak on Lichess since August. The X marks the release of The Queen’s Gambit 📈

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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!

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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).

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3 years

Today, we passed 3 billion games played. That's 3,000,000,000. Thanks for playing 🙏

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Playing chess while the rest of the internet burns.

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Magnus has clearly been preparing some new openings for this event.

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1 year

White to move and Mate in 1 ! Only one correct solution - can you find it? #chesspuzzle #chesstactic

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pawn has promoted to a higher consciousness

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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 🤯

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Your turn! White to move and ... ? #chesspuzzle

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You can now filter Lichess puzzles by opening.

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1 year

Here's an update on the impact of the Football World Cup on our player numbers 👀

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The /r/AnarchyChess set is now live on Lichess! Give it a try!

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We turn 13 today! We've had 13 great chess years together - thank you all, you rock! Celebrate with us in our Anniversary Arena:

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Our monitoring graph of tournament pairings from yesterday. You will notice a small spike around 19:00 UTC.

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What is your favorite chess phase and why? 🤣

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We just crossed 4 billion games. Thanks, everyone!

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Congrats to @MagnusCarlsen for winning today’s Titled Arena! He streamed the whole thing and also donated the $500 prize back to us 🤩

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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.

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We're dedicated to improving your chess game with free, top-tier features. On Lichess, you get unlimited free puzzles, and a Puzzle Dashboard to identify your strengths and weaknesses. Check out your dashboard at

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We just crossed 100,000 online users on Lichess for the first time! An amazing moment for Lichess, and therefore the world.

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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

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@DavidHowellGM Yep, you found our 300-move limit 😅

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Your turn! White to move and ... ? Stalemate? 🤔 #chesspuzzle

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This exact position has appeared in 32 games on Lichess, and White missed the winning blow in all of them! Can you find it? ➡️

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3 years

Magnus Carlsen donated his Titled Arena prize back to the next Titled Arena's prize pool! Thanks, champ 🏆

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Congratulations to the first >3300-rated player in Lichess history, Magnus Carlsen.

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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

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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

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Do you agree? D Expectation vs. reality #chessmeme

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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!

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Best picture of 2022? 💯🐐 Lionel Messi and @Cristiano Ronaldo (Photo by Annie Liebovitz) - do you recognize the #chess position?

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. @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!

The Wall Street Journal

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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

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Your turn - Black to move and win! Can you find the solution of our daily #chesspuzzle ?

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We're happy to welcome Stockfish 14 NNUE to all of our live analysis boards!

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10 years ago 👀

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How many games did you play already?😅 #chessmeme

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Outpost Chess

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♟Let’s take a second to remember this awesome pros and cons list by chess meme queen @tsakkia_chess @lichess

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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!) Check out all our features, 100% free to everyone: no paywalls, no ads, 100% for love of chess

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Half a million games played for Lichess user german11, incredible! 🎊

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Did you know that Lichess is completely free and open-source? We're committed to creating an accessible platform for chess players of all levels.

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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.

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FIDE's statement on sexist remarks

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Will Nodirbek Abdusattorov become the new No. 1 in #chess , what do you think? #chessmeme

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🔥🖥️🔥 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:

Fire Has Destroyed OVH’s Strasbourg Data Center (SBG2)

No OVH, firefighting, or local government services staff members were injured, the company said. Restart of surviving data centers on campus not anticipated until Monday.

www.datacenterknowledge.com

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Actually, the best player on lichess is exactly at Magnus Carlsen level

Moner Adlby

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@lichess well the best player in lichess not even near to Magnus Carlsen level I love lichess and I use it a lot but that the truth

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Magnus Carlsen just adopted GM Alexey Sarana in Blitz 🤯 Watch the games ➡️

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2 years

Some technical difficulties, we'll be back with a new link for the event as soon as possible 🙏

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GM Andrew Tang reported an anonymous account once because it seemed too strong! Turned out to just be Magnus 😅

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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.

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@FranklyAkash No.

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How it started: How it's going:

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Announcing the Lichess World Championship!

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Lichess is down right now, apologies for the inconvenience. We're working on resolving the issue and should be back soon.

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It looks like a massive network failure in our data center. At least it's not burning down 😅 Let's hope we'll be back very soon!

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The opening explorer is fully restored, happy browsing!

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Anand stumbles into a brutal tactic during round 8 of #NorwayChess Black to play and win.

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How do you study chess every day? 😅 #chessmeme #chessmemes

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We apologise for our issues broadcasting #NorwayChess 2023. As in previous years, the organisers are only providing moves and clock times to some third parties, and not Lichess. Despite being denied access, we're trying our best to still provide a broadcast despite this.

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Congrats @FIDE_chess for joining the free open source software (FOSS) community! Some of Lichess's GPL code is now officially used by the international chess organisation 🎉 Surely the start of a long, productive, and cooperative relationship between FIDE and the #FOSS world!

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Following the new allegations, Lichess has decided to stop cooperating with STLCC and US Chess due to serious concerns about their accountability. We will not provide them with support, and we will not advertise their events until concrete improvements are made.

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It's official! Round 3 of the @FIDE_chess World Championship between @MagnusCarlsen and @lachesisq was the most accurate game played in World Championship history - preview of the data below; more details, graphs and data coming soon 1/2

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