Happy birthday to the four-time women's World Champion Hou Yifan! 🥳
Her greatest chess achievement is probably the 2012 Gibraltar Open, where she shared 1st place with Short, winning against Shirov and drawing against Adams and Mamedyarov!
We have continued to make lots of changes to our broadcasts, including support for team events and the integration of a FIDE player database to automatically add the correct player names, ratings & titles.
See all of it in action in the 9th round of Bundesliga!
David Bronstein was born #onthisday in 1924, 100 years ago!
He is one of the strongest players without the world championship title (best result: 12-12 against Botvinnik, 1951).
Here's a puzzle from a 1962 game against Korchnoi, white to move and win:
Vera Menchik, 1st Women World Champion, was born #onthisday in 1906.
Strong players who lost to her were said to be "members" of a "club". Notable members are Euwe, Reshevsky and Colle, while among "candidates" (who drew) there are Najdorf and her trainer Maroczy.
11 first-time contributors helped write code for Lichess in January! 🛠️
See what they and others worked on in this month's changelog: https://lichess.org/changelog
Très content de ce tableau de mat obtenu en 12 coups dans un gambit roi, version "gambit des trois pions" en blitz sur #Lichess. La dame et le fou qui contribuent au mat depuis leur case de départ, le cavalier qui fait mat dans le coin, tout me plaît #Chess
Share your best Lichess game of January 2024 (only from January 2024 - only standard games (no variant games) and only one game per player - additional games will be ignored!) until February 5th by a comment of this post! The winner will be mentioned in a forums post on February 12th, followed by a Lichess blog post with a Lichess commentary of the game at a later point in February. Good luck!
Happy 87th birthday to the 1969 World Champion Boris Spassky! 🥳
His adaptable "universal style" was a distinct trait of his play that helped him against many top players of that era such as the tactical Tal and the positional Petrosian.
Sprint finish at #TataSteelChess ! Vidit, Giri, Gukesh, Abdu & Wei Yi are currently tied for 1st place, with Firouzja & Pragg just 0.5 points behind! Will we see tiebreaks?
Catching up with the chess after having family here for the past couple weeks.
What a tournament Wijk aan Zee is turning out to be this year. With one round left, five players are equal first, and two just a half point behind. It's going to be an amazing finish today. I'll catch up looking at some games today.
Nepo's revenge! #TataSteelChess
It only took two games to get his first victory against Ding Liren since the World Championship (the first one, in the #SuperbetChessClassic, ended in a draw).