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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]
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 ...
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.
These Live ratings are based on the previously published FIDE ratings, so a player's Live rating is intended to correspond to what the FIDE rating would be if FIDE were to issue a new list that day. Although Live ratings are unofficial, interest arose in Live ratings in August/September 2008 when five different players took the "Live" No. 1 ...
The fewest moves required to deliver checkmate in chess is two, in what is known as the fool's mate (1.g4 e5 2.f3?? Qh4# and variants thereof). This happens in amateur play.
2009 World Chess960 champion Hikaru Nakamura at Mainz. The World Chess960 Championship is a match or tournament held to determine a world champion in Chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess), a popular chess variant in which the positions of pieces on the players' home ranks are randomized with certain constraints.
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]
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