Breaking the Silence (lichess.org)
Breaking the Silence - Lichess will no longer cooperate with the US Chess Federation and the Saint Louis Chess Club (lichess.org)
Lichess has redesigned its broadcast pages (lichess.org)
What do you all think?
Magnus Carlsen will play the "Chess party with DJ Assios" tournament (600$ in prizes, titled players only) while DJing in a chess rave in Oslo! (lichess.org)
Pleasing puzzle from Lichess (lichess.org)
The Complete Checkmate Patterns List (with examples) (lichess.org)
Discover 37 important checkmating patterns, each explained with a practical example.
Chess Newbie here :) Please help me understand this puzzle :) (lichess.org)
I'm a new chess player and do not understand why the solution to this puzzle is Qc2+ instead of something like Rb8, Qf5, g4 I don't really understand what black could do here to save the Queen?
link post test (lichess.org)
Caro-Kann Defense: Accelerated Panov Attack, Pseudo-Scandinavian: The worst opening ever? (lichess.org)
e4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5, blundering the queen on move 3. The Lichess database features 747 games with this opening, and only 82% of them continue with 4. cxd5
LPT: Not a fan of going to Twitch to watch you favorite lichess streamer? Lichess has a hidden built in function to view the stream from Lichess. Just append /{name} at the end of this URL. (lichess.org)
If they’re a twitch streamer, it will still use the twitch plugin to view the stream. Instead of ads you will get pauses, but beware, sometimes the pauses are long.
Daily g5# (lichess.org)
Ratings Are Broken (lichess.org)
How to Lichess Voice (lichess.org)
Exploring how Lichess' players spend their playing time, Part 1 of 2 (lichess.org)
Experiences With Online Harassment As A Female Chess Player: Breaking The Silence Online (lichess.org)
Women in chess in general have been subjected to sexual harassment and abuse, sometimes to the point where they give up chess entirely. Sometimes, no doubt, to the point where law enforcement agencies have become involved. WFM Alexandra Botez said in an interview with “The Insider” in 2020 that the movue "‘The Queen’s...
#28: The 14 Rules of Hedgehog Club (lichess.org)
Weak Squares in Chess: Everything you need to know! (lichess.org)
How long is an opening? (lichess.org)
Ju Wenjun is Womens World Champion (lichess.org)
Women's World Chess Championship: Half way done (lichess.org)
Andreikin wins the Uralsk Qualifier! (lichess.org)
Andreikin, along with Galaktionov, Sviridov, Sevgi, will play in the second stage of the Kazakhstan Cup, expenses covered!
The Art of Trading Pieces in Chess (lichess.org)
I checkmated someone using long castle (lichess.org)
I enjoyed it, so I thought I’d share 🙂