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The Block of the Century This Bobby Fischer game is exactly like last night's Eagles game

Fischer's famous 1963 win against Pal Benko, and last night's Eagles game.

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Orange book cover for Thinking Sideways: How to Think Like a Chess Player and Win at Life

Blue Book Cover for Thinking Sideways, UK Edition (Hodder Books)

Thinking Sideways Cover Reveal ‼️

Chessplayers are known for thinking really far ahead. But great players THINK SIDEWAYS: chess is the art of the possible.

It's been a lifelong dream of mine to write this book, and I can't wait to share it with all of you!

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YouTube video by StarTalk Plus “Science in Health, Wealth, & War” A Social Media Op-Ed by Neil deGrasse Tyson

In case anybody needs reminding...

"Science in Health, Wealth, and War"
A Social Media OpEd. [Video: 7m 30s]

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LIVE calling the monthly Hippodrome event! www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVOi...

YouTube video by Chesslovers: Thomas Engqvist & Björn Knöppel The 3 Chess Books That Will Transform Your Game | A Position-Based Training Method

I was always wondering if it is possible to create or extract the most important chess positions. IM Thomas Engqvist did that 🧠👏

1) 300 Most Important Chess Positions
2) 300 Most Important Tactical Chess Positions
3) 300 Most Important Chess Exercises

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Ju Wenjun Defeats Hou Yifan For WSCC Title Second Year In A Row Ju Wenjun defeated Hou Yifan with a score of 11.5-9.5 to lift the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship title for the second year in a row.

Reigning Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun defeated Women's number-one GM Hou Yifan with a combined score of 11.5-9.5 in the all-Chinese Final of the 2025 Women's #SpeedChess Championship to claim the title for the second year in a row.
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2025 Sinquefield Cup Round 5: Caruana Leads After 5 Draws Before Rest Day GM Fabiano Caruana continues to lead the 2025 Sinquefield Cup after, for the first time this year, a round of all draws.

Fabiano Caruana continues to lead the 2025 #GrandChessTour Sinquefield Cup after, for the first time this year, a round of all draws.
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You can now follow players to be notified whenever they are live in one of our broadcasts. Just head over to their FIDE player page on Lichess and toggle the follow button. Never miss your favourite player's games again!

Never miss your favourite player's games again!

You can now follow players to be notified whenever they are live in one of our broadcasts.

Just head over to their FIDE player page on Lichess and toggle the follow button.

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2025 Sinquefield Cup Round 4: Caruana Takes Sole Lead After 2nd Win GM Fabiano Caruana won a second game in a row, this time with Black against GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, to take the sole lead of the 2025 Sinquefield Cup with 3/4.

Fabiano Caruana won a second game in a row to take the sole lead of the #GrandChessTour Sinquefield Cup!
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Ju Wenjun Wins With Record Breaking Margin World Women Champion GM Ju Wenjun defeated IM Polina Shuvalova with a score of 17-5 in the semifinal of the 2025 Women's Speed Chess Championship.

Five-time Women's World Champion GM Ju Wenjun defeated IM Polina Shuvalova with a score of 17-5 in what turned out to be a one-sided semifinal of the 2025 Women's #SpeedChess Championship.
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Accelerated Chess Improvement (ACI) - 7 Cycles Method A chess course for the busy adults who want to improve at chess quickly.

Check out my new #chess Program Accelerated Chess Improvement - 7 Cycles Method

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Chennai GM Round 6: Awonder Hits 2700, Catches Arjun GM Awonder Liang beat GM Pranav Venkatesh in round six of the Quantbox Chennai Grand Masters 2025 to enter the 2700 club and catch GM Arjun Erigaisi in second place.

22-year-old Awonder Liang has entered the 2700 club, just in time to face Chennai Grand Masters leader Vincent Keymer in Round 7!

Our friends over at @yasqueenchessclub.bsky.social have organised an event with the amazing @jenshahade.bsky.social!

If you haven't already got Jen's book, it's a great insight into women in chess.

#chess #chesspunks #ajedrez #xadrez #santraç #szachy #schaak #scacchi #schach #escacs #echecs

Mate in None: Lessons from Large Language Models Playing Chess A tournament showdown and a tense battle against the brand new ChatGPT 5

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From failing to see smothered mates in one to confabulating in confusing scenarios, when the LLMs miss things, there's often a lesson we can learn from it.

This is awesome. When will we be allowed to add games to studies from the mobile app?

More Than a Half-Year Update 2025 Internal improvements, mobile updates, site updates, events, and more!

Your donations and support have allowed us to do many awesome things this half-year! ❤️

We will continue to work hard to give you the best free, libre, and open-source chess experience.

Read our half-year update blog to see how we have changed for the better: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...

Made some great progress on my upcoming @chessable.com course. Finished the Introduction and Opening Sections. So exciting! #chess #chesspunks

Congratulations Dan. Keep up the great work.

Mindset: How Important Is It? Hint: It's Very Important - At Least For Me

Check out my latest blog post.

How important is Mindset?

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Caro Kahn

Where are the Benoni players at? #chess

Oh my! Thank you so much @jenshahade.bsky.social

Grandmaster Chess Therapy How to get beyond winning and losing while still winning more than losing 🙃

“In a world that can seem shallow, chess meets a longing for depth. In a world that can feel lonely and confusing, chess offers the experience of shared meaning and mattering. In a world of shrill whataboutery, chess offers rule-bound intellectual clarity.”

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“An Ambulance is expensive but you only have one head.” ~my wife

Haha 😂

I’ll be at the Hales Corners Challenge this weekend in Brookfield, WI. Come say hi if you’re around. See you there. ‼️♥️🔥

2025 Women’s World Chess Championship Game 8: Ju Nears 5th Title After GM Ju Wenjun's win in game 8, GM Tan Zhongyi has to win her next four games just to tie the match.

Ju won her fourth game in a row with her victory over Tan in Game 8 of the Women's World Championship! Now she only needs to draw one of the remaining four games to become a 5-time World Champion.

Read our recap blog & replay the game with annotations by WGM Petra Papp.

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2025 Women's World Chess Championship Game 1: A Quiet Appetizer Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi enter the match well-prepared, in an expectedly safe game, leaving lots to be expected in the upcoming games.

Game 1 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025 ended in a draw. Read our recap blog and replay the game with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea.

GM Ju Wenjun on deciding between Be7 or Bg3 on move 14 in Game 1 of the Women's World #Chess Championship 2025 - asked and translated by Lichess' Yilin Li! 🔥