Just like that 2022 is over, and it’s time to review how the year went for us in The House and the Variant World...
- Our lichess team continued to grow, and we broke the magical barrier of 10,000 members in November. Thank you everyone for being part of the team! <3
- We extended our victorious march in the Lichess Bundesliga (“BL”). After winning 2020 and 2021 seasons, we managed to complete the hat-trick and took home the 2022 trophy. The hunt for the 2023 cup has already begun as season’s first BL round was played yesterday.
- In the OTB chess scene, both @gsvc and @davidb2 clinched the norms and rating and became proud owners of Grandmaster titles.
- Lichess created the official variant teams which helped to boost the activity of the variant scenes. Various variant championships were organized: Atomic World Championship (AWC), Horde World Championship (HWC), Crazyhouse World Championship (CWC), Racing Kings World Championship (RKWC), and Bughouse World Championship (BWC) all finished during last year. Antichess World Championship (ACWC) and Three-Check (TCWC) are still going on.
- Numerous other variant tournaments were played, such as the Racing Kings Olympiad, Atomic960 tournament, Crazyhouse960 tournament, House fishrandom.io tournament, variant team battles, and 24-hour revolution variant marathons.
- In the software section, Fairy-Stockfish team improved numerous neural networks releasing the strongest crazyhouse, atomic and racing kings nets thus far. Pychess (www.pychess.org) continued to host plenty of exotic variant tournaments and added the latest trending variant, Duck Chess, to their collection.
Happy New Year and may 2023 be even better!
- Our lichess team continued to grow, and we broke the magical barrier of 10,000 members in November. Thank you everyone for being part of the team! <3
- We extended our victorious march in the Lichess Bundesliga (“BL”). After winning 2020 and 2021 seasons, we managed to complete the hat-trick and took home the 2022 trophy. The hunt for the 2023 cup has already begun as season’s first BL round was played yesterday.
- In the OTB chess scene, both @gsvc and @davidb2 clinched the norms and rating and became proud owners of Grandmaster titles.
- Lichess created the official variant teams which helped to boost the activity of the variant scenes. Various variant championships were organized: Atomic World Championship (AWC), Horde World Championship (HWC), Crazyhouse World Championship (CWC), Racing Kings World Championship (RKWC), and Bughouse World Championship (BWC) all finished during last year. Antichess World Championship (ACWC) and Three-Check (TCWC) are still going on.
- Numerous other variant tournaments were played, such as the Racing Kings Olympiad, Atomic960 tournament, Crazyhouse960 tournament, House fishrandom.io tournament, variant team battles, and 24-hour revolution variant marathons.
- In the software section, Fairy-Stockfish team improved numerous neural networks releasing the strongest crazyhouse, atomic and racing kings nets thus far. Pychess (www.pychess.org) continued to host plenty of exotic variant tournaments and added the latest trending variant, Duck Chess, to their collection.
Happy New Year and may 2023 be even better!