A new study challenges skill-based matchmaking, finding that equal-skill contests can quietly hurt retention while smarter systems kept players engaged longer in millions of Lichess matches.

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If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, Missouri, home of the World Chess Hall of Fame, the next best thing might be ...

Javokhir Sindarov is on the verge of qualifying for the world championship match against D Gukesh. X/FIDE Javokhir Sindarov is primed to become the challenger to world champion D Gukesh as the Uzbek ...

What is a big-ticket chess event without whispers of a player’s meticulously-concocted preparation being out in the open? On a day the rampaging Javokhir Sindarov ended his round 8 Candidates match ...

Magnus Carlsen’s chess startup Take Take Take is making a bold push into online play and learning — two areas long dominated by Chess.com. Despite being a co-founder and major shareholder, Carlsen won ...

There's "scary kid" and then there's this. In Round 5, I'm paired against a Malaysian 15-year old 1868 Elo who has a performance of 2200 only 4 rounds into the tournament. This, is scary. He beat two ...

With a GitHub account, you can watch this repository (can be set to release announcements only). See the top right corner on this page. Almost all processors will be able to meet the requirement of ~2 ...

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When Theophilus Wait talks about Lichess, the company that he works for, he likes to describe it as something of a “Wikipedia for chess”. Over the past month, some of the world’s top grandmasters have ...