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Lichess was founded in 2010 by French programmer Thibault Duplessis. [8] [9] The software running Lichess and the design are mostly open source under the AGPL license [10] and other free and non-free licenses. [11] The name Lichess is a "combination of live/light/libre and chess". [12]
Ding Liren became World Chess Champion in April 2023, after defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 2023 championship match; [3] Ding had finished second to Nepomniachtchi in the Candidates Tournament 2022, but when reigning champion Magnus Carlsen chose not to defend his title, Ding replaced Carlsen in the 2023 match.
He plays on Chess.com under the handle DanielNaroditsky, [16] and on Lichess.org under the handle RebeccaHarris. [17] He frequently ranks at the top of both websites' leaderboards in Blitz and Bullet. His peak bullet rating on Chess.com is 3553, and peak bullet rating on lichess is 3326. [18] [19]
A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation.
He won the 2nd Levitov Chess Week, in September with a score of 12.5 points. [ 52 ] During round 11 of the World Blitz Chess Championship 2023 , controversy arose after Nepomniachtchi faced off against fellow compatriot Daniil Dubov , with both players agreeing to a 13-move draw after playing a series of knight moves.
Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost ...
Data assembled by Lichess using the Stockfish chess engine estimated that of the 1,034 world chess championship games dating back to 1888, game seven was the most accurate game ever played in world chess championship history, while games three and ten were tied for the second-most accurate; on the other hand, Nepomniachtchi's blunder in game ...
Mark Glickman created the Glicko rating system in 1995 as an improvement on the Elo rating system. [1]Both the Glicko and Glicko-2 rating systems are under public domain and have been implemented on game servers online like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, [2] Dota 2, [3] Guild Wars 2, [4] Splatoon 2, [5] Online-go.com, [6] Lichess and Chess.com.