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Lichess Game of the Month: February '25

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2025 Women's World Chess Championship Game 5: Tan’s Opening Surprise Backfires

Ju WenjunNM Chess-Network

Game 1: Ju Wenjun vs Tan Zhongyi, FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025

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Avoid the Biggest Chess Pain

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This D&D Retreat Costs 10x a Chess Tournament

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Stockfish 17.1 is here + quick survey

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The Funny Side of Chess

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2025 Women's World Chess Championship Game 4: Neck and Neck

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Quantifying the Control over Squares

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Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February & GM Toms Kantāns, and today's guest GM Felix Blohberger, for Game 5 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!

Today, we reached the milestone of 5,000,000 puzzles! It took more than 100 years of CPU time to generate them from games played on Lichess. You can download all our puzzles for free and use them in your own projects without asking for permission.

Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and GM Toms Kantāns for Game 4 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!

GM Ju Wenjun bounced back after the first rest day with a win over GM Tan Zhongyi to level the score! We summarised what happened in our recap blog, again with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea.

Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with our commentators WIM Jesse February, GM Toms Kantāns, and GM Srinath Narayanan for Game 3 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!

Congratulations to GM Jose Martínez Alcántara for winning our Chess960 Titled Arena! GM Vugar Rasulov took 2nd place, ahead of GM Frederik Svane in 3rd place.

Our Chess960 3+2 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 Chess960 Titled Arena!