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Praggnanandhaa wins the Tata Steel Masters 2025! 🏆 He defeated World Champion Gukesh in the Blitz tiebreak, after both players lost their Classical games in an exciting final round! Congrats! 🎉
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Lichess is now on @kaggle! Use our puzzles, openings, and engine evaluation datasets directly in your kaggle notebooks: kaggle.com/organizations/lic… ♟️
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Congratulations to GM José Martínez Alcántara for winning our Blitz Titled Arena February! 🎉 GM ARMJoker took 2nd place, ahead of IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján in 3rd place: lichess.org/tournament/feb25…
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Our February 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena: lichess.org/tournament/feb25… 🏆
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The 5th Kasparov Chess Foundation University Cup will be played on Lichess between 1 & 2 February. Teams can still register until 24 hours before the start. The winners will receive an online training session with the former World Champion @Kasparov63! kcfuniversitycup.org/uc/regi…
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Last rest day of Tata Steel Chess 2025: World Champion Gukesh is in the sole lead with 7.5/10, followed by Abdusattorov with 7 points and Praggnanandhaa with 6.5 points. Read our recap and watch the final three rounds in our broadcast, continuing tomorrow: lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/t…
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Super-GM @FabianoCaruana warmed up for his Tata Steel Masters game by playing a few Blitz games vs LeelaKnightOdds! Check out all 9 games via (lichess.org/@/Bombegranate/s…). Challenge our bots via lichess.org/player/bots What are your thoughts on this? #chess #caruana #leela
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GM Gukesh D won his game against GM Leon Luke Mendonca to top the standings as GM Vladimir Fedoseev and GM Anish Giri won their games against GM Pentala Harikrishna and GM Praggnanandhaa R. Learn more: lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/t… #chess #tatasteel
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Your turn! 🤔 White to move and win. Can you find the solution to our Daily Lichess Puzzle? 🧩 lichess.org/training/daily #chess #chesspuzzle #chesstactics
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Get to know the "Adhiban Gambit" founder (current Elo: 2555, highest Elo: 2701 in April 2019) lichess.org/@/jeffforever/bl… #chess #interview #Adhiban #Baskaran
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The 8-game knight odds match between GM Joel Benjamin and Leela, played with a classical time control, just started! Follow it in our broadcast until 27 January: lichess.org/broadcast/leela-…
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Replay all our broadcast games now without spoilers! Turn off the "Results" toggle on a broadcast tournament page and the results of the games will be hidden - including the moves until you make them on the board. Try it now with the Tata Steel Masters: lichess.org/broadcast/tata-s…
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First rest day of Tata Steel Chess 2025: GMs R Praggnanandhaa and Nodirbek Abdusattorov share the lead in the Masters, while GM Erwin l'Ami is in sole first place in the Challengers section. Read our recap of Round 5: lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/t…
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You can now pin up to three of your favourite blog posts to your profile page by enabling the new "Sticky post" option in the blog settings. Many thanks to Yet Another Fred (github.com/yafred) for implementing this feature!
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Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing #Chess (lichess.org/team/ronaldo-pla…) for winning our Streamers Battle January 2025 (lichess.org/tournament/jan25…)! Congrats also to Moon Club for taking 2nd place, to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 3rd place, and to Sadistic Minions for 4th place.
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