Vaaa pues en #chess nuestro equipo de #Barcelona segundo del europeo de ciudades y tercero en el mundial. 
No hemos podido revalidar el trofeo europeo de 2023 y 2024 pero... 💪🥈♟️
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2,102 Halloween Gambits were played on Lichess last Halloween, according to our free and open database! 🎃
👻 Check out the Halloween Gambit: https://lichess.org/opening/Four_Knights_Game_Halloween_Gambit/e4_e5_Nf3_Nc6_Nc3_Nf6_Nxe5
➡️ All rated games are available for download in our free and open database: https://database.lichess.org/
We have a curated set of positions to practice checkmates, common tactical patterns, and endgames! All for free, of course.
Check out Lichess Practice ➡️ https://lichess.org/practice
Congratulations to the new FIDE World Junior Girls Chess Champion WIM Anna Shukhman! 🏆
She secured the title with 5 straight wins in the last rounds! 😮
The games: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-world-junior-chess-championship-2025--girls/bjU4HJBP
Happy International Women's Day! 🥳
Let's celebrate together in our thematic Women's Day Arena today at 14:00 UTC, with all games starting from a position of Judit Polgár's famous win against Vishy Anand in 1999.
Ju Wenjun bounces back with a win over Tan Zhongyi in Game 3 of the FIDE Women's World #Chess Championship 2025!
GM Zhu Jiner is the overall winner of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 and, together with runner-up GM Aleksandra Goryachkina, secured a spot in the next Women's Candidates Tournament! 🎉
While GM Anna Muzychuk won the final event in Großlobming, Austria, she couldn't overtake Goryachkina in the overall standings to qualify for the Candidates.
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-womens-grand-prix-202425--austria/0eZnPsBD
📷 Abhilash / FIDE & Niki Riga / FIDE
Ju Wenjun won her fourth game in a row with her victory over Tan Zhongyi in Game 8 of the Women's World Championship! Now she only needs to draw one of the remaining four games to become a five-time World Champion.
Read our recap blog and replay the game with annotations by WGM Petra Papp.
🇦🇹♟OTB #Chess in the Austrian capital Vienna - learn more about the TU Vienna Chess Festival 2025 (Blitz, Rapid & Bughouse) https://lichess.org/@/jeffforever/blog/tu-vienna-chess-festival-2025-blitz-rapid--bughouse/XFmZxOAr
Congratulations to GM José Martínez Alcántara for winning our Blitz Titled Arena July 2025! 🏆
IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher took 2nd place, ahead of IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján in 3rd place.
➡️ https://lichess.org/tournament/jul25bta
By request, some #Chess accounts to follow:
➡️ @lichess - Free open source chess server
➡️ @schachjugend - German Youth Chess Federation (in German)
➡️ @Chess_Olympus - Notable chess people & moments
➡️ @deepgreen - Indie Apple Newton chess app now for iPhone/iPad
➡️ @gmmds - Chess Grandmaster, author, chess commentary
➡️ @votechess - Collaborative chess games on the Fediverse, vote on next move
➡️ @ChessPuzzleBot - Interactive bot posting chess puzzles, DM "help" for lots more options
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Today, 20 July, is World Chess Day
Episode 2 of the Alasdair Gray Archive’s UNLIKELY OBJECTS MOSTLY looks at Alasdair’s chessboard & the part chess played in his practice, uncovering the game’s pivotal role in the making of his Hillhead Subway mural & the novel POOR THINGS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vbB7OeYkeo
#Scottish #literature #AlasdairGray #PoorThings #mural #murals #publicart #Glasgow #Chess #WorldChessDay