Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and GM Toms Kantāns for Game 4 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!
GM Ju Wenjun bounced back after the first rest day with a win over GM Tan Zhongyi to level the score! We summarised what happened in our recap blog, again with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea.
Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with our commentators WIM Jesse February, GM Toms Kantāns, and GM Srinath Narayanan for Game 3 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!
Congratulations to GM Jose Martínez Alcántara for winning our Chess960 Titled Arena! GM Vugar Rasulov took 2nd place, ahead of GM Frederik Svane in 3rd place.
Our Chess960 3+2 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 Chess960 Titled Arena!
GM Tan Zhongyi defeated reigning champion GM Ju Wenjun in Game 2 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025 to take the lead before the first rest day! Find out what happened in our recap blog, again with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea.
Tune in now on YouTube or Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and GM Toms Kantāns for Game 2 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!
Game 1 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025 ended in a draw. Read our recap blog and replay the game with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea.
Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and GM Toms Kantāns for Game 1 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025 between defending champion GM Ju Wenjun and challenger GM Tan Zhongyi!
GM Ju Wenjun will defend her Women's World Championship title against challenger GM Tan Zhongyi starting on April 3rd. Read our final preview blog and make sure to tune in on Twitch or YouTube with our hosts GM Toms Kantāns and WIM Jesse February, joined by a rotating panel of guests.
Our new Flipping Board feature is now available! Press Shift+F to flip the board, unleash the beast, and enjoy knowing that you totally would have won the game. Happy board flipping!
Learn more about the defending champion of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025, GM Ju Wenjun, in our second preview blog! We will stream every round from 3 to 20 April on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and GM Toms Kantāns - more details coming soon.
GM Matthias Blübaum is the new European Chess Champion and now the only player to have won the title twice! He finished with 8.5/11 points, just like GM Frederik Svane in 2nd place and GM Maxim Rodhstein in 3rd place, but had the better tiebreak scores. The top 20 players who weren't already qualified have secured a spot in the FIDE World Cup.
Find out more about the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025 challenger, GM Tan Zhongyi, in our first preview blog! We will stream every round of the Women's World Championship from 3 to 20 April on our Twitch and YouTube channels - more details coming soon.
GM Anna Muzychuk won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Nicosia on better tiebreaks than GM Zhu Jiner! Both players drew their games in the final round. IM Olga Badelka could have changed the outcome in favor of GM Zhu Jiner with a win over IM Stavroula Tsolakidou, but missed her chance in a complicated endgame.
Tune in now on YouTube and Twitch and watch Round 12 of the German Bundesliga, the strongest chess league in the world, with us and our host WCM Katharina Reinecke!
Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Titled Arena March! GM Brandon Jacobson took 2nd place, ahead of GM Christopher Yoo in 3rd place.
Join us now on Twitch and YouTube for Round 11 of the German Bundesliga with our host WCM Katharina Reinecke! Follow the games of GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Anish Giri, Vincent Keymer and many more.
Our March 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.
Enter the World of Solving Magic with six-time World Chess Solving Champion GM Kacper Piorun! The Lichess study introduces composed problems used in chess solving competitions. The course is aimed at advanced players.
Congratulations to team Moon Club by @MoonWarrior1 for also winning the second ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers IM Jakub Půlpán, @BetterCollSoul, @DrMystic, IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, @Aghapourchess100 and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and players!
GM Anna Muzychuk leads the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Nicosia on the first rest day with 4/5 points, ahead of GMs Zhu Jiner and Aleksandra Goryachkina. Watch more high-level chess now in the European Championship 2025, where GM Daniil Yuffa is the only player to have won every game after 5 rounds!