lichess<p>GM Aditya Mittal wins the Almaty Region Open 2025! 🏆</p><p>Aditya qualified through our Lichess online tournament series, held in collaboration with the Kazakhstan Chess Federation. He now takes home $18,000 for 1st place, finishing ahead of GMs Aleksey Grebnev & Bassem Amin! 🎉</p><p>Replay the games on Lichess: <a href="https://lichess.org/broadcast/almaty-region-open-qonaev-cup-2025--masters/Tgj5txdT" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lichess.org/broadcast/almaty-r</span><span class="invisible">egion-open-qonaev-cup-2025--masters/Tgj5txdT</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/chess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/lichess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lichess</span></a></p>
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#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics A lovely lecture and blitz evening at Charlton Chess Club with the ambitious title “Visualising the future” 
Thanks to Alan Hanreck for organising and to all the participants (including some kids Natasha and I had met at the British Junior Championships last week ) for their enthusiasm and warmth!
#chess #siliconroad #reengineeringtheclassics A lovely lecture and blitz evening at Charlton Chess Club with the ambitious title “Visualising the future” Thanks to Alan Hanreck for organising and to all the participants (including some kids Natasha and I had met at the British Junior Championships last week ) for their enthusiasm and warmth!
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for the final round of the Almaty Open 2025 with our hosts GM Felix Blohberger and WIM Jesse February!
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zreAzg1pRuU
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lichessdotorg
Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/almaty-region-open-qonaev-cup-2025--masters/Tgj5txdT
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for the final round of the Almaty Open 2025 with our hosts GM Felix Blohberger and WIM Jesse February!
https://lichess.org/feed#DEWkNKWatch Round 8 of the Almaty Open 2025 now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts GM Mitrabha Guha and WIM Jesse February!
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct3ibEa1_9M
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lichessdotorg
Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/almaty-region-open-qonaev-cup-2025--masters/Tgj5txdT
A replica of #BenFranklin's #Chess set. (French provincial style.) The #NPS ranger on sight says that there is a broad online society that accuses the museum of misidentifying the queen.
Franklin was a lifelong lover of chess. In "The Morals of Chess" (1786), Franklin wrote: "For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it."
https://franklinpapers.org/framedVolumes.jsp?vol=29&page=750a
Franklin was a lifelong lover of chess. In "The Morals of Chess" (1786), Franklin wrote: "For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it."
https://franklinpapers.org/framedVolumes.jsp?vol=29&page=750a
Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Blitz Titled Arena, ahead of GM GrraindTime, GM Amin Tabatabaei, GM Shant Sargsyan, and GM Vugar Rasulov! 
All games & full standings on Lichess: https://lichess.org/tournament/aug25bta
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 7 of the Almaty Open 2025 with our hosts GM Mitrabha Guha and WIM Jesse February!
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmvJhbetDiU
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lichessdotorg
Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/almaty-region-open-qonaev-cup-2025--masters/Tgj5txdT
I played a chess tournament today in the Northern Tasmanian town of Latrobe. Latrobe was having it's annual Winter Festival, The Chocolate Festival!
I won the tournament, and the Chocolate Chess Set and Board that was the prize. But as I'm not a greedy bastard, I shared my prize with the other players 
Our August 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC: https://lichess.org/tournament/aug25bua
Play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena: https://lichess.org/tournament/aug25bta
Our August 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.
https://lichess.org/feed#OQzYX7lichess.orgBlitz Warm-up Arena August '25: Standard 3+0 rated #aug25bua581 players compete in the Aug 9, 2025 Blitz Warm-up Arena August '25. 3+0 rated games are played during 55 minutes. Winner is not yet decided.
#chess #siliconroad The next instalment of my analysis of the spectacular tactics in a French defence between Stockfish and Torch! https://matthewsadler.me.uk/attack/explaining-complex-tactics-part-4/
Matthew Sadler · Explaining complex tactics - Part 4 » Matthew SadlerIn this blog post, having settled the end position, we start a little further back within the game and work our way forwards, trying to understand the In this blog post, having settled the end position, we start a little further back within the game and work our way forwards, trying to understand the course of the middlegame. We’ll get as far as one branch from move 17 and then we’ll finish off the rest in a subsequent post. Let’s go!
Watch Round 6 of the Almaty Open 2025 now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts IM Piotr Nguyen and WIM Jesse February! The joint leaders, GM Bassem Amin and GM Aditya Mittal, face each other on the top board.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LIB9bp83-M
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lichessdotorg
Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/almaty-region-open-qonaev-cup-2025--masters/Tgj5txdT
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My older brother, now almost 70 years old, is the smarter one of us two—a valedictorian and National Merit Scholar who attended Rice University and later earned his doctorate. In high school, he participated on the chess team and won the city championship. Bobby Fischer once put on an exhibition match in San Antonio where he played against 10-12 opponents simultaneously, each on a different chess board. My brother was one of the contestants. He said Fischer quickly sized up his opponents, offered draws (i.e., ties) to a few good players including my brother, and then focused on defeating all the weaker ones. So my brother has a draw against Bobby Fischer and his autograph.
A son of the founder of Church’s Chicken restaurants in San Antonio, Bill Church, was apparently a chess fan and sent the city’s top high school players to compete in a national tournament each year. I remember my brother losing his return airline ticket at one such tournament in Chicago. After high school he continued to play chess, sometimes traveling to Las Vegas to compete in a tournament there, and attaining a ranking of Master at his highest level. He was never one of the top finishers at national competitions, but he did occasionally defeat or earn draws against higher-ranked opponents.
Tomorrow my brother is playing again in a small chess tournament in San Antonio. It will be the first time he has competed in about 15 years. He hopes to win at least one match. I hope he does. I look forward to hearing how it goes for him.
We're thrilled to announce the official public release of our new mobile app! Read about it on our blog: https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/mobile-app-official-release/wiwu6goO
lichess.orgMobile App: Official Release!Now available on both Google Play and the App Store.