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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! 🔥

Well done Wisconsin! Not perfect but a good step in the right direction.

Tani has reached the 2400 rating requirement for the IM title, and he already has the norms under his belt!

He needs 7/9 to earn a grandmaster norm.
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Photo of Ju Wenjun - Credits: Frans Peeters - https://www.flickr.com/photos/suspeeters/53461827304/, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=162201678

As the 2025 FIDE Women’s World #Chess Championship is set to begin, we profile the defending champion: GM Ju Wenjun.

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📷 by Frans Peeters

One on one talk with Alexandra Botez. It is 40+ minute long and we touched on many topics rarely discussed.

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#RebelQueen

My dear colleague Sophia wrote an inspiring piece about IM Andras Toth for the @chessable.com blog.

A must-read for #chesspunks and everyone who needs a reminder that finding your calling sometimes takes unexpected turns.

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Because of the pay gap, women have lost out on more than $60 trillion in wages since 1967.

Yes, trillion.

On an hourly basis, women were paid 18.0% less on average than men in 2024.

We must ensure fair wages for all.

This is why I’ve left Twitter.

TakeTakeTake's CEO sees the future of chess as a spectator sport—could he be right? A new way to follow chess, or the same errors we've seen before?

“The question is, are the organizational owners of chess ready for this? Are they going to take full ownership and make the most of this situation that you have the esports world’s eyes on you?” dotesports.com/chess/news/t...

The Crucial Moment: When to END Your Calculation in Chess! 😍

You'll learn:
- The perfect moment to end your variation
- How many moves should your calculation be
- The power of intuition
- Calculating a sacrifice
and more!

Link in first comment!

Enjoy! 😀
#chess #chesspunks 🦁🔥

I responded with firing their social media manager haha. Which I think is necessary. The things they post are really quite useless. You’d think they’d recognize this.

Regardless of the intent
it’s not funny. Jokes are supposed to be funny and interesting and at times even thought provoking. How does asking users to rename a piece offer any laughs? They need better social media management.

They think they have their finger in the pulse but they are far off!

Chess.com Joke About Renaming The Bishop Generates Viral Internet Firestorm What was intended to be a harmless joke turned into a firestorm, racking up over 50 million views and becoming Chess.com's most viral post ever.

What was intended to be a harmless joke turned into a firestorm, racking up over 50 million views and becoming Chess.com's most viral post ever.
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My Top Play Like a Champion Moments For Women's History Month, I present eight of my favorite chess puzzles from Play Like a Champion

Eight Top Play Like a Champion Moments: the most beautiful puzzles from my chess tactics book. jennifershahade.com/stack/my-top...

This is going to be exciting!

HUGE REMINDER!!!!! 👀

The Women's World Chess Championship match between Tan Zhongyi (!!) and the four-time reigning defending World Champion Ju Wenjun (!!) is happening in exactly two weeks! 😱

#chess #womeninchess