45th Chess OlympiadGM Illia NyzhnykPlaying right nowOlympiad 2024 | OpenRound 3 • Playing right nowWeekly Classical Arena65 players • 
Lichess2024 Budapest Olympiad Round 2: Canada Draws Norway, Women’s Upset-Less
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Open tournaments
More »| Hourly Blitz | 57m | 320 | |
| Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 317 | |
| Daily Bullet | 1h | 474 | |
| ≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 139 | |
| Hourly Atomic | 27m | 63 | |
| ≤1300 Bullet | 27m | 32 | |
| Hourly King of the Hill | 57m | 40 | |
| ≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 271 | |
| Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 396 | |
| Hourly Horde | 57m | 26 | |
| ≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 173 | |
| Hourly HyperBullet | 27m | 74 | |
| Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | ||
| Weekly Classical | 5h | 65 |
GM Magnus Carlsen's absence was felt in Round 2 of the Olympiad as Norway drew Canada, while individual upsets in the women's section failed to turn the tide on overall match scores: Read our Round 2 recap blog and join us again at 13:00 UTC on YouTube and Twitch for Round 3 with our host GM Illia Nyzhnyk!
The favourites prevailed, but some big individual upsets occurred along the way: Read our Olympiad Budapest 2024 Round 1 recap blog and join us again at 13:00 UTC on YouTube and Twitch for Round 2 with our host GM Illia Nyzhnyk and live camera feeds!
Join us on YouTube and Twitch in just one hour at 13:00 UTC for Round 1 of the Olympiad Budapest 2024 with our hosts GM Illia Nyzhnyk and IM Eric Rosen - including live camera feeds!
You can now enable the new Stockfish 17 (79MB net) for analysis in the engine settings menu! Stockfish 16 is still available with a smaller 7MB net. Thanks to the Stockfish team for developing and providing their free and open-source engine!
Watch our latest interview and analysis with none other than IM Eric Rosen and of course our Lewis Chess Legends stream host IM Irene Sukandar!
Lichess had a productive August, with a total of 141 pull requests from 33 contributors, including 9 first-time ones! Check out more details on our updated changelog.
