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title: It's Championship Season... for 3 Check!?
description: You heard right! BOTH major platforms lichess and chess com are hosting their own 3 check variant championships. Each with their own spin!
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Tis the season for 3 check players!

**Lichess Three Check World Championship (TCWC) 24'-25':**

TCWC season typically occurs from August ([registration](https://lichess.org/team/3-world-championship)) to late February (or this year, early March).

Right now we are awaiting the grand finals matchup between FM Vasilios Kasioumis @UnholyCrusade and challenger GM **Miroslav Miljković @MiroMiljkovic** to be scheduled shortly.

In the meantime, check out the [bracket](https://challonge.com/es/9llty178) and [exclusive coverage](https://youtu.be/Hj48pvPjZ04) of this event!

**3 Check Championship on Chess com**

As a part of the 2025 Chess.com Community Championships they have put up a $2500 prize pool for [their event](https://www.chess.com/news/view/announcing-chesscom-3-check-chess-championship-2025)!

With 8 qualifiers this past Thursday and an 8 person knockout bracket the following day, this tournament was absolutely action packed.

[Playing in 2 of the qualifiers myself](https://youtu.be/vbA_XQVeUUY), I finished 22nd and 24th out of roughly 1,000 entries.

https://youtu.be/vbA\_XQVeUUY

That was good for about 97th percentile (i.e. better than 97% of total players)!

Streaming 11 total hours doing live commentary and playing, the action seemed almost nonstop for two days. That was a good two days!

The results spoke for themselves as two of the lichess 3 check leaderboard favorites FM Matfey Rogov @statham and FM Vasilios Kasioumis @unholycrusade battled for first place in a [stunning finish](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2394376576). Big thanks guest host @daslurpyninja for joining me on the live broadcast for this one!

Maybe YOU will be next year's 3 Check champion!