Congratulations to VEER SHAH & FRIENDS for winning our Streamers Battle March 2025! Congrats also to Moon Club for taking 2nd place, to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 3rd place, and to Полина Янученко1 for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 2,026 registered players!
Congrats @jan6363 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month February 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
The European Championship, featuring GMs Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Alexey Sarana, David Navara and more, as well as the 4th FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournament in Nicosia, with GMs Aleksandra Goryachkina, Anna Muzychuk, and Zhu Jiner among others, are both about to start at 13:00 UTC! Follow all the games in our broadcasts.
The second ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th March at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register now until 17th March.
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 17th March at 16:00 UTC and 14th April at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!
Happy International Women's Day! Let's celebrate together in our thematic Women's Day Arena today at 14:00 UTC, with all games starting from a position of GM Judit Polgár's famous win against GM Vishy Anand in 1999.
The FIDE World Junior Chess Championships 2025 ended after 11 rounds in Petrovac, Montenegro: GM Pranav V is the new World Junior Chess Champion and WIM Anna Shukhman, who was on an impressive 5-game winning streak in the last rounds, is the new World Junior Girls Chess Champion!
GM Aravindh Chithambaram won the Prague Festival Masters 2025 undefeated with 6/9 ahead of tied GMs Anish Giri, Wei Yi and R Praggnanandhaa one point behind. The Challengers section was decided in a tiebreak match, which GM Nodirbek Yakubboev won 1.5 to 0.5 against GM Jonas Buhl Bjerre.
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.
Three more rounds to play in the FIDE World Junior Championships: Sole leader GM Pranav V faces second-placed IM Aswath S in the Open, while tied leaders WFM Mariya Yakimova and WIM Yelyzaveta Hrebenshchykova meet in the Girls section. Follow all the games in our broadcasts, starting at 14:15 UTC!
Our March 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, is starting soon at 16:00 UTC! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.
Congratulations to GM Andrew Tang for winning our Blitz Titled Arena March in the final seconds! He finished just one point ahead of GM Brandon Jacobson in 2nd place, who was closely followed by GM @legendreturns in 3rd place.
Our Game of the Month February Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in February 2025 until 5 March! The winner will be announced on 14 March, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
The March 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.
Our team will be answering questions on Reddit tomorrow from 15:00-17:00 UTC. You can start asking questions now!
Boris Spassky, the legend and 10th World Chess Champion, passed away today at the age of 88.
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Monaco with 5.5/9 on better tiebreaks than the tied GM Koneru Humpy and undefeated IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul!
The Prague International Chess Festival Masters 2025 starts at 14:00 UTC - featuring the recent Tata Steel winner GM R Praggnanandhaa and GMs Vincent Keymer, Wei Yi, David Navara, Anish Giri and Ediz Gürel among others. Watch all the games in our broadcast until 7 March.
Use our curated set of training positions to practice checkmates, common tactical patterns, and endgames!
Congratulations to team Moon Club by @MoonWarrior1 for winning the first ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with the help of their top scorers IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, @BetterCollSoul, GM Andrew Tang, IM Erick Zhao, GM Mitrabha Guha and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and players!
The third of six FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournaments starts at 14:00 UTC in Monaco! Follow all the games in our broadcast until 27 February, as GMs Tan Zhongyi, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Koneru Humpy and others try to collect more points for the WGP Series.
Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning our Streamers Battle February 2025! Congrats also to Полина Янученко1 for taking 2nd place, to Moon Club for 3rd place, and to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 2,002 registered players!
The final of the Antichess World Championship 2024 just started on Lichess! Watch the games between @TheUnknownGuyReborn and @Pinni7 in our broadcast, with live commentary by @firebatprime and others on YouTube.
This month's week of variant Shield Arenas starts soon at 16:00 UTC with the 3+2 Chess960 Arena! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until the next tournament.