Pursuit of Brilliance
A chance for everyone to shine!
The Pursuit of Brilliance Tournament is an online event that gives any chess player the chance of glory! Here is how the tournament will work:
Lichess Official Blog
Interview with the World #1 Crazyhouse Player
A player profile and Q&A with JannLee
Those of you who have only recently acquainted yourselves with the crazyhouse scene will recognize the name 'JannLee' as the player whose meteoric rise shortly after crazyhouse rolled out on lichess firmly established him as the best player on the site. Those of you who regularly haunt channel 24 on FICS—the crazyhouse & bughouse channel on the Free Internet Chess Server—will perhaps know him better as the guy who has dominated the FICS crazyhouse scene for over a decade: tantheman.
Wesley So action with Chess at Three
Your chance to play a super GM!
Swag time
Great chess deserves great T-shirts.
The lichess.org shop is open! Kudos to Clarkey & Eddie O'Bryan for the amazing designs!
Not only will they look gorgeous on you, we hope they also help paying for lichess servers. A T-shirt is $3 in lichess donation funds; a hoodie, $5. We've been buying new servers this month, to cope with the outstanding lichess growth. Help us keep going!
Opening Explorer
A powerful new feature is out on Lichess!
Over the past month the lichess devs have been hard at work on a powerful new feature. Today we are proud to reveal the Lichess Opening Explorer! Not only does it let you search through over 12 million Lichess games (and counting!) with more than 390 million unique positions, but it also features a specially curated database of 2 million master games from thousands of over-the-board tournaments since 1952! That's right, a fully featured opening explorer is now a part of lichess.org and it's all completely free!
Wesley So action with Chess at Three
Your chance to play a super GM!
Crazyhouse, an overview
Strategic concepts, tactical patterns, openings, and other resources
Note: this article was posted on reddit first.
OMG Crazyhouse!
The epic chess variant is landing on lichess
Racing Kings & the Second ChessWhiz Cup
Ringing in the New Year with Racing Kings and the second ChessWhiz Cup!
Happy New Year from the Lichess team, who wishes all you virtual wood-pushers out there a splendid start to 2016! Hopefully everybody's recovered from their vacations, obligatory family bonding, and the carbohydrate-induced lethargy so prevalent around the holidays. The Lichess super-coders are already back to work and extra-inspired; given their progress, it seemed time for a blog post. On the docket are two items: the new variant Racing Kings and a new prize tournament, the Second ChessWhiz Cup!
Winter Marathon Tournament
Are you ready to experience something different?
TL;DR: What? 24h 3+2 tournament. When? Monday the 28th of December, 12:00AM (GMT). Where? lichess.org/tournament/winter15
As 2015 slowly draws to its close and the new year lazily approaches, many folks are beginning to wind down and relax over the holiday period for some well earned peace and quiet. Not lichess though, for us the end of the year means only one thing: the ultimate test of chess endurance otherwise known as the 24-hour Winter Marathon Tournament.