Congrats @WiNDim on winning the Lichess Game of the Month September 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of Google DeepMind that created AlphaZero, has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry!
Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Blitz Titled Arena October, 29 points ahead of runner-up GM Jakhongir Vakhidov, followed by GM Mitrabha Guha in 3rd place!
In just 3 hours, you'll have the chance to play against some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!
Follow the Global Chess League final between the teams of PBG Alaskan Knights with GM Anish Giri and Triveni Continental Knights with GM Alireza Firouzja in our broadcast starting at 13:45 UTC.
We now rotate the featured blogs on our homepage, giving you more variety and more authors the chance to have their blogs read by a wider audience.
Check out our new broadcast calendar! Sortable by year and month, you can find all our broadcasts much easier than before.
Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle on 21 October at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!
To better understand which moves led to three- and fivefold repetition draws, we now highlight them in the analysis, as in this game for example.
Thank you to the more than 38 contributors who made September one of our highest activity months! See what we've been working on in the updated changelog.
Join the 2nd Chess Day USA Arena, organised by the Connecticut State Chess Association, starting 5 October at 17:00 UTC - for 2 hours of 3+0 Blitz with a total prize fund of $600!
Together, we have now played over 6 billion rated standard games - and counting! All available for download in our free and open database.
Our Game of the Month September Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in September 2024 until 5 October! The winner will be announced on 14 October, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
Congratulations to GM Nihal Sarin for winning our Titled Arena September 2024! GM Andrew Tang took 2nd place and GM Daniel Naroditsky came in 3rd.
Our September 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 2 hours at 16:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!
The new season of the German Bundesliga has started, with GMs Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh D, Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi and many more expected to play in the coming rounds. Follow each round in our broadcast.
The FIDE General Assembly voted against lifting sanctions on the Russian and Belarusian federations. Instead, it voted to consider lifting sanctions only on players with disabilities and children under 12. Yolander Persaud is the new chairperson of FIDE's Ethics & Disciplinary Commission after a chaotic election, as reported on Chessdom.
Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning the Streamers Battle September 2024! Congrats also to runner-up Полина Янученко1, to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for taking 3rd place, and to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 2,019 registered players!
India has won both the Open and Women's events of the 45th Chess Olympiad! Watch our interview on Instagram with gold medallist and new world number 3, GM Arjun Erigaisi, after the final round.
Watch the final Round 11 of the Olympiad now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts FM Gauri Shankar and IM Eric Rosen, and read our Round 10 recap blog to find out what happened and who is leading!
India continues to lead the Open section of the Olympiad as Kazakhstan took sole 1st place in the Women's: Read our Round 9 recap blog and watch Round 10 now on YouTube and Twitch with us and our host FM Gauri Shankar!
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 9 of the Olympiad with our host GM Illia Nyzhnyk and read what happened yesterday in our Round 8 recap blog!
India continues to lead both sections of the Olympiad, while GM Gukesh D is now the 5th highest rated player in the world: Find out what happened yesterday in our Round 7 recap blog, and tune in now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 8 with our host GM Illia Nyzhnyk!
Join us now for Round 7 of the Olympiad on YouTube and Twitch with our host GM Illia Nyzhnyk and live camera feeds!
Rest day after six rounds in the Olympiad: India is in the sole lead of the Open and Women's tournaments, having not lost a single match so far! Read more in our recap blog.