Lichess Chess 960 TEAM
Tournament points: 7,067
Team leader: AnDmotherthIHIA_Wast
Best players
- Evrika
- SilishGeroiSssr
- DGTU
- OhanyanEminChess_OEC
- EleGraAMagetto91
- DrawDenied_Twitch
- You-Tube
- AnDmotherthIHIA_Wast
- TV
- Dr_Soltomans
Recent members
Welcome to the official Lichess Chess960 Team!
We are the home of Chess960 fans across Lichess. Join the team for tournaments and other community-driven Chess960 events. Everyone is welcome to join!
VOTE here for the time control you would like to see more for Chess960 Tournaments
Resources:
• Detailed Guide to Chess960 with history, strategy and opening tips as well as further resources.
• Table of all 960 starting positions (PDF)
• Castling Rules
Tournaments Schedule:
Time Day Event Time Control
Every hour* Every day Hourly Chess960 Various
19:00 UTC Wednesdays Weekly Chess960 Blitz Arena 3+0
11:00 UTC Saturdays Weekly Chess960 Team Battle 3+0
*Every hour, when there is no hourly created by Lichess itself, there will be tournament created by this official team
Links to these regular tournaments can be found below , if you scroll down a bit or here.
Additionally, if you are fan of team battles, you can find Daily Chess960 Team Battles hosted by Fischer Random Chess Center
Community:
• Share and discuss your games here
• Feel free to create a topic in the forum if you have questions, want to give feedback, or make suggestion for tournament ideas, events, format or any kind of thing.
• Lichess Arena Ranking
• Chess960 versions for other variants, such as Crazyhouse960 and Atomic960 can be played on Pychess. Every 2nd Monday of the month, Crazyhouse960 Shield takes place here
Lichess official variant teams
Lichess Chess960 • Lichess King of the Hill • Lichess Three-check • Lichess Antichess • Lichess Atomic • Lichess Horde • Lichess Racing Kings • Lichess Crazyhouse
Location: Lichess
Forum (14)
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nice games! NM visualdennis its good visualdennis NM!
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Again blacks main problem was wasting too much time in the opening without gaining anything (see position after 9th move), spent too much time on q-side instead of developing e8 knight and 0-0 etc, ha
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https://lichess.org/xjnDLzWH got a few critical tempos on the queen here.
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Well played. You developed your pieces effectively and exploited black's lack of development (black wasted time with useless moves like a6 Nd6 and Nb5) effectively by 0-0-0, Ne5, dxe5 opening the line
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https://lichess.org/6Z6woh0Y#practice The queen sac was unnecessary but I just had to do it :)
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Feel free to share your Chess960 games of which you are proud of, find cool in some way, or there has been an interesting tactic or strategical motif, or maybe simply something you'd like to analyse,
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@Patrizsche Agreed, Rapid Time Controls for Chess960 have been missing, especially 10+0 and 10+2. Also the current results of the on-going survey about TCs confirm that there is a clear demand for slo
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I think that a great way to help spread 960 tournaments would be to do exactly what the official Lichess Swiss Team does and just set up swiss tournaments that start every 6? hours for 1+0, 3+0, 5+0,
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I think what's truly missing for chess960 is 10+0
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You should send a team message linking to the poll, doubt many people will see this thread