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Awesome! Looking forward to it. Is it G/60 + 30 or different time control?

It is truly mind-boggling that the world has access to this amazing free chess platform (but please everyone become a patron if you can afford to!). Thank you to everyone who created and continues to …

Yes, you found it! But I'll add some specifics for those who are in this blog only. We've done with Swiss tournaments and Quads (4 players of similar rating). A section is usually 10-16 people, but we…

Thank you for posting this. @datasmith and I run G/60 + 30 tournaments here on lichess. We have an Americas section that plays most games Thursday evenings (Americas time) and a European section that …

This game was short and had no less than 5 viable queen sacrifices for White within 20 moves, and an elegant checkmate. Viable Queen Sac #1 12. Qf2 Bc5 13.Be3 Ng4 14.Bxd4!! Nxf2 15.Bxc5 Ng4 16.dxe6 th…

Thanks for thinking of us David. We are fine, and somehow our house on a steep mountain is fine as well - only about 10% of the homes in our community had tree damage, and we didn't have any landslide…

I am sure this question has been asked before, but I haven't seen it. Is there a tool on lichess or any of its add-ons, or any external tool for that matter, that can a) analyze a game to show sharpne…

Wow - this is awesome, especially now that I found the user manual at https://siderite.dev/blog/lichess-tools---user-manual/ . Thank you for the suggestion and thank you @totalnoob69 !

I have built my opening repertoire in lichess studies. For example, I have a study for the Nimzo Indian as Black, with different chapters for each major White setup against the Nimzo, with a number of…

I hadn't heard of the approach of setting mini challenges for yourself, but I realize I've used this approach. My main one has been to get my pieces as active as possible without trading anything off.…