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7th Sharjah Masters 2024: Preview
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5 Boosters to Speed Up Your Chess Growth
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Fun stats about the Lichess 2024 Spring Marathon
Leaderboard
More »GM RebeccaHarris | 3225 | |
GM cutemouse83 | 2987 | |
jumpingknight20![]() | 2819 | |
IM PlemSovhoz![]() | 2618 | |
GM penguingim1![]() | 2623 | |
NM Jasugi99 | 2815 | |
GM Zhigalko_Sergei | 2747 | |
GM Zhigalko_Sergei | 2633 | |
GM Zhigalko_Sergei | 2624 | |
neverplayfastanti![]() | 2480 | |
chrisrapid![]() | 2456 | |
RayHolt | 2701 | |
FM bijiy | 2478 |
Tournament winners
More »Open tournaments
More »Daily Horde | 1h | ||
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 149 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 69 | |
Hourly Racing Kings | 57m | ||
Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 61 | |
≤1300 Blitz | 57m | 43 | |
Hourly Atomic | 27m | 10 | |
Hourly HyperBullet | 27m | 18 | |
≤2000 Rapid | 57m | 69 | |
≤1700 Bullet | 27m | 33 | |
≤1500 SuperBlitz | 57m | 34 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 51 | |
Hourly Crazyhouse | 57m |
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Round 2 of the Sharjah Masters 2024 is about to start, with GM Vasyl Ivanchuk taking on GM M. Amin Tabatabaei among others! Join us and our host IM Irene Sukandar for commentary on YouTube and Twitch.
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Our April 2024 free and open databases are available for download, bringing the total number of games now to over 5.5 billion in standard chess and 114 million across variants!
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The Sharjah Masters 2024 kicks off tomorrow with GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Parham Maghsoodloo, Yu Yangyi and others. We will be streaming the event with commentary by our host IM Irene Sukandar on Twitch and YouTube from 13:00 UTC tomorrow and 11:00 UTC the following days until 22 May!
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Congrats @PrydunAndrii2004 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month April 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
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GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2024 Superbet Poland, overtaking and beating GM Wei Yi on the final day of blitz! World Championship challenger GM Gukesh D finished in last place.
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Congratulations to @Gakolchess765 for finishing 1st in our 2024 Spring Marathon, winning 69% of the total 336 games with a berserk rate of 99%, followed by runner-up @Ragehunter and @Fritzi_2003 in 3rd place! Thanks to all 22,000+ players who participated.
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@EricRosen has streamed the entire 2024 Spring Marathon so far on Twitch! Make sure to join one of our classic events for the remaining 10 hours - together with over 16,000 players already!