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Lichess Game of the Month: April 24
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7th Sharjah Masters: Daneshvar Wins on Tiebreaks
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Tournament winners
More »Open tournaments
More »Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 426 | |
≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 521 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 517 | |
≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 301 | |
≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 189 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 76 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 271 | |
Hourly Racing Kings | 57m | 50 | |
≤1300 Bullet | 27m | 41 | |
Hourly Crazyhouse | 27m | 23 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 145 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 43 |
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GM R Praggnanandhaa beat world number one Magnus Carlsen yesterday to take the lead in Norway Chess and plays GM Hikaru Nakamura today! In the Women's tournament we see a rematch from the last World Championship between GMs Lei Tingjie and Ju Wenjun, follow these and more games in our broadcasts.
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Watch our Norway Chess 2024 broadcasts now as GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura face off in Round 2, and reigning Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun takes on GM Anna Muzychuk in the Women's tournament.
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Congratulations to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for winning the Streamers Battle May '24! Congrats also to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 2nd place, SergeyVoronChess NEW taking 3rd place and IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club finishing 4th. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,915 registered players!
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We now have Stockfish 16.1 (70MB net) available on web! Enable it in the engine settings menu. Stockfish 16 is also available with a smaller 7MB net, and all our engines are computing faster than before, thanks to a recent update!
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Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning the Titled Arena May 2024, just 2 points ahead of runner-up GM Ediz Gürel, who was on a 6-game winning streak! 3rd place went to GM Matthias Blübaum.
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This month's 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 2 hours! You'll have the chance again to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!
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The Sharjah Masters was our first stream with live player camera feeds! Many thanks to our stream host Irene Sukandar, @TotalNoob69 for developing a necessary browser extension tool on short notice and to the whole team who made this stream possible!