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[April Fools] Lichess.org is sold to ChessCube

Cynosure (Ophi Seurat) Teasing

ChessCube (Pty) Ltd buys lichess.org for $752,000; Thibault retires to Bahamas

[EDIT] This post was an April fools joke. Lichess.org will never be sold. Lichess.org will always be free for everybody, without any ads. It's a promise.

Today, Thibault Duplessis confirmed and formalised the contractual agreements which give ChessCube (Pty) Ltd all rights over the site, including intellectual property, domain, legal and equitable rights for a cash sum of $752,000.

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Exciting times

Thibault Duplessis Announcements

Lichess keeps on improving. Can you keep up with the pace?

At lichess we have one goal: never stop to amaze you.

With this idea in mind, we came up with a number of new features and improvements in the last couple weeks. Let's review them briefly.

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T-Shirts 2: Electric Boogaloo

James 'Clarkey' Clarke Announcements

New shirts are on the way, but what will the design be?

It has been a long time since our last run of T-shirts, and we really wanted to do another run of awesome lichess shirts -- but we couldn't think of what we should put on them. We're web designers, not T-shirt designers. So we got thinking, who do we know that's really good at coming up with trendy T-shirt designs? The answer is you, lichess player!

So without further ado, the lichess staff is proud to announce the lichess shirt design competition!

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Mobile app: iOS edition

Thibault Duplessis Announcements

Lichess mobile is now available on iPhone, iPod, and iPad!

The mobile team is very proud to give you the iOS mobile app!

It works like a charm on all your devices: iPod Touch, iPhone,and iPad.

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The Mobile App is ready!

Thibault Duplessis Announcements

Get lichess.org official mobile app for Android now!

[EDIT] iOS version is out!

The mobile development team has been working hard, and we think you'll agree that the result is worth it.

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Atomic Chess! And more

Thibault Duplessis Announcements

Let's start 2015 the right way: with three new features!

2015 has barely started, and amazing new features have already landed.

Do the developers even sleep?

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Fifty million games

Thibault Duplessis Announcements

The numbers are telling us that lichess is growing very fast!

On the 1st January 2015 lichess registered its 50 000 000th completed game (excluding aborted games).

Let's together review a few mind-blowing numbers about lichess!

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December awesomeness

Thibault Duplessis and James 'Clarkey' Clarke Announcements

This month: Correspondence chess, Antichess, Simuls, and more.

Fellow chess players, we are thrilled to announce that lichess.org is growing fast! Let's review the new features that were added in December 2014:

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November new features

Thibault Duplessis Announcements

lichess.org is getting better so fast, you won't believe it.

New features, yay! For free, hurray! Your beloved lichess team has been working hard to create top notch tools just for you. Here's a quick summary of what's new on your favorite chess site:

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