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Many congratulations to Divya Deshmukh on winning Women's World Cup championship and also earning her grandmaster title. #chess
Divya Deshmukh wins the Women's World Cup 2025!
She has qualified for the next Women's Candidates Tournament, earned the GM title, and will take home $50,000!
Runner-up GM Koneru Humpy was beaten in the final tiebreaks, but has also secured a spot in the next Women's Candidates Tournament!
Replay the games on Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-womens-world-cup-2025--finals/OX9co2G6
Congrats RejectedQuadratic on winning our Game of the Month June 2025 contest!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/padu3rAuTXE
The game on Lichess: https://lichess.org/C9M1TNXo
The first game of the FIDE Women's World Cup finals between IM Divya Deshmukh and GM Koneru Humpy ended in a draw. Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for the second game with our hosts WIM Jesse February and WCM Katharina Reinecke!
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQlBR1HbAWA
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lichessdotorg
Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-womens-world-cup-2025--finals/OX9co2G6
Congratulations to GM Ediz Gürel for winning our Bullet Titled Arena, ahead of GM Andrew Tang, GM Sergei Zhigalko, IM Artem Uskov, and GM FeegLood!
Magnus Carlsen beat ChatGPT so badly in chess that the AI lost all its pawns and resigned. ChatGPT's response: "Well played!" A week later, Carlsen lost to a teenager. Moral: There's always a bigger fish... or a younger grandmaster!
Why is the rook considered so much more valuable in chess than knights and bishops?
I always find rooks way more difficult to manouver and thus less valuable. Can someone help me learn what makes rooks so good?
Our July 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 17:00 UTC!
You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena.
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for the first game of the FIDE Women's World Cup finals with our hosts WIM Jesse February and WIM Ellen Nilssen!
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afd5zg4Rzx4
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lichessdotorg
Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-womens-world-cup-2025--finals/OX9co2G6
Congratulations to team K2N_chess for winning the sixth ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers GM José Martínez Alcántara, IM Reza Mahdavi, doughnut42, GM Mitrabha Guha and many others!
Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,452 registered players!
Koneru Humpy's decisive tiebreak win over Lei Tingjie
Lei was in a must-win situation, after losing the first game of the blitz tiebreaks, and went all in with moves like 26. Nxh6+
Koneru Humpy joins Divya Deshmukh in the 2025 Women's World Cup Final and secured her spot in the next Women's Candidates!
She beat Lei Tingjie in the blitz section of the semi-final tiebreaks after an 8-game match!
Replay the games: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-womens-world-cup-2025--semifinals/D8vMwkm8
Follow the FIDE Women's World Cup semi-final tiebreaks between GMs Koneru Humpy and Lei Tingjie now with our hosts WIM Jesse February and WCM Niusha Afshar!
The winner will face IM Divya Deshmukh in the final, who defeated former Women's World Champion Tan Zhongyi yesterday.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwThjVdCtNA
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lichessdotorg
Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-womens-world-cup-2025--semifinals/D8vMwkm8
Ohh...there is a new Hnefatafll by a gent named David Campbell ( @dlc ) Hnefatafl is basically #viking #chess, but the rules are far simpler. He developed a nice multi-player app in the vein of #go servers. IF anyone wants to play, let me know! You can find out more at https://hnefatafl.org