Lichess Chess960
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)
Tournaments Schedule:
Time | Day | Event | Time Control |
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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.
• 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
Tournaments
Hourly Chess960 Arena5+3 • Chess960 • Rated • 55m | Inner team Playing right now | 9 | |
Hourly Chess960 Arena2+0 • Chess960 • Rated • 55m | Inner team | 1 | |
Hourly Chess960 Arena3+2 • Chess960 • Rated • 55m | Inner team | 0 | |
Hourly Chess960 Arena5+3 • Chess960 • Rated • 55m | Inner team | 0 | |
Hourly Chess960 Arena3+0 • Chess960 • Rated • 55m | Inner team | 0 |
Forum
I second that, slower time control are much better for improvment, and currently we only see 1+0 or 3+0. I've seen a 3+2 but that still very fast for positional play.
yes it is
More time is required. Look what happened to these chess960 tourneys happening at the same time: Lichess official hourly chess960 arena 3+0 time control 0 players (2 players paused) https://lichess.or…
Yes I agree. One needs more time to analyze the different starting position.
Voting is a good idea, but just putting on a few regular ten minute tourneys would be much better.
If you were wondering like me, this is the link from the team page that allows to vote for time control: https://forms.gle/iwdeyZwLTzkVar64A
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