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10 May 2024
jk_182
Opening novelty rates of the 2024 Candidates
Who played the most novelties in the Candidates?
12 May 2024
SergioGlorias
Connection problems with Lichess! Why?
Have you ever seen a message appear saying "Reconnecting", but your internet does work? Let's check!
1 May 2024
SayChessClassical
Are Online Chess Players Trapped Pigeons?
The Increasing Gamification of Online Chess
10 May 2024
Noobmasterplayer123
Why this blog will never appear on the front page of Lichess
a blog about how pub subs work and why this blog will never make it
1 May 2024
Philmageo
Filtering Bots by ranking
If you are a developper or curious you can easily add features to Lichess.org
19 Apr 2024
revoof
Adapting nnue-pytorch's binary position format for Lichess
Lichess stores lots of chess positions, and (thanks to Stockfish) now more efficiently
7 May 2024
MBurns2020
The Rise of Lichess
From a small and simple site to the best FREE chess website in the world!
27 Apr 2024
Graque
New features for chess count mini-game
The chess-count quiz now has more settings. For instance, you can disable the timer, or you can be q…
19 Apr 2024
jk_182
Calculating the Sharpness of Different Players
How well does the sharpness score agree with the human intuition about sharpness?
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