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Lichess (/ ˈ l iː tʃ ɛ s /; LEE-ches) [3] [4] is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play rated games .
In Unicode 11.0, an emojified representation of the character U+265F ♟ BLACK CHESS PAWN was added. [4] As of Unicode 15.1, only this character has an emoji version. In 2024, a proposal was submitted to include emoji versions of the other standard chess symbols.
The chess variants listed below are derived from chess by changing one or more of the many rules of the game. The rules can be grouped into categories, from the most innocuous (starting position) to the most dramatic (adding chance/randomness to the gameplay after the initial piece placement).
Chess.com saw more than twice as many account registrations in November as it had in previous months, and the number of games played monthly on Lichess doubled as well. [10] There was also a demographic shift in players, with female registration on Chess.com shifting from 22% of new players to 27% of new players.
This list of top-ranked chess grandmasters is ordered by their peak Elo rating.The cut-off value is 2700 for men (players with a rating at or above this value are colloquially known as super grandmasters) and 2500 for women.
For most moves the SAN consists of the letter abbreviation for the piece, an x if there is a capture, and the two-character algebraic name of the final square the piece moved to. The letter abbreviations are K ( king ), Q ( queen ), R ( rook ), B ( bishop ), and N ( knight ).
In terms of ratings I play mostly on chess.com and have a 1800+ rapid rating, 1700+ blitz rating and 1750+ bullet rating, although o sometimes play on lichess for blitz and bullet time controls and I am around 1900 for bullet and 2100 for Blitz.
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