In Round 1 of the Sharjah Masters, GM S. P. Sethuraman had the advantage against top seed GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, but let his chances slip and the game ended in a draw. A minor upset happened on board 5, where home favourite GM Salem Saleh lost to GM Dai Changren. He will try to bounce back in Round 2, starting at 11:00 UTC.
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 1 of the Sharjah Masters 2025 with our commentators GM Toms Kantāns and IM Irene Sukandar, featuring live camera feeds!
We will stream the Sharjah Masters 2025 every day from 17 to 25 May! Read our preview blog and join us daily on Twitch and YouTube with our hosts GM Toms Kantāns, IM Irene Sukandar and WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea! The first round starts tomorrow at 12:00 UTC, while all other rounds will begin at 11:00 UTC.
The FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 ended after six tournaments: GM Zhu Jiner is the overall winner and, together with runner-up GM Aleksandra Goryachkina, secured a spot in the Women's Candidates Tournament! While GM Anna Muzychuk won the final event in Großlobming, Austria, she couldn't overtake Goryachkina to qualify for the Candidates.
Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning our Streamers Battle May 2025! Congrats also to K2N_chess for taking 2nd place, to Moon Club for 3rd place, and to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,546 registered players!
GM Bardiya Daneshvar is the new Asian Chess Champion and IM Song Yuxin is the new Asian Women's Chess Champion! The top ten players of the Open and the top two players of the Women's tournament have qualified for the upcoming FIDE World Cup and FIDE Women's World Cup, respectively.
The fourth ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th May at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.
Congratulations to GM Andrew Tang for winning our Blitz Titled Arena May! GM Brandon Jacobson took 2nd place, ahead of IM Arash Tahbaz in 3rd place.
Join us now on Twitch for the final day of our MSF Charity Campaign with host @Toadofsky and play in the MSF Charity Finale arena! Thanks to everyone who donates and supports the fundraising campaign for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
Our May 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.
See what our developers and community contributors have been working on over the past month in our updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum topic.
The final FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournament has started in Großlobming, Austria! Follow all the games in our broadcast until 15 May, as GMs Tan Zhongyi, Anna Muzychuk, Zhu Jiner and others try to collect their last points for the WGP Series.
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 12 May at 15:00 UTC and 9 June at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, see here.
Our May 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, starts at 16:00 UTC! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.
Join us in celebrating 43 successful Lichess4545 seasons in the faster 15+15 kick-off arena on 4 May at 11:00 UTC! Lichess4545 has over 700 active members and hundreds of games played on a weekly basis. Cheers and here's to a fantastic Season 44!
Happy International Workers' Day! Great things are possible without exploiting workers, we just have to work together. Thank you to all our contributors and check out our contributing page, if you want to get involved. Whatever you do, fight for your rights!
Our Game of the Month April Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in April 2025 until 12 May! The winner will be announced on 24 May, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland with only 1 loss in 27 games, ahead of GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and R Praggnanandhaa.
We support and encourage charitable donations to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Our MSF Charity Campaign starts with an arena on 3 May at 18:00 UTC. Several hosts will be streaming on our Twitch channel until 11 May to raise funds for MSF. If you would like to host a fundraising stream yourself, see here.
Tune in now on YouTube and Twitch for the final round of the German Bundesliga and German Women's Bundesliga with our host WCM Katharina Reinecke!
Congrats FM @Ragehunter on winning our 2025 Spring Marathon - their 4th Marathon victory in a row - with a 58% win rate in 382 games, 16 points ahead of runner-up @cbev378! Thanks to all 21,169 registered users who played a total of 189,867 games and 13,482,523 moves! The next Marathon will take place on 2 August.
Watch Round 14 of the German Bundesliga and Round 10 of the German Women's Bundesliga now with us and our host WCM Katharina Reinecke on YouTube and Twitch!
Our 2025 Spring Marathon starts at midnight UTC! Join us and thousands of players for 24 hours of 5+0 Blitz and be part of one of the biggest chess tournaments in history. The top 500, top 100, top 50, top 10 and the winner will all get a unique trophy.
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 13 of the German Bundesliga and Round 9 of the German Women's Bundesliga with our host WCM Katharina Reinecke! Follow the games of GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Vincent Keymer, Anish Giri, Alexandra Kosteniuk and many more.
Congrats GM @delta_horsey on winning the Lichess Game of the Month March 2025! Thank you all for your submissions!