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Our Game of the Month February Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in February 2024 until March 5th! The winner will be announced one week after the deadline, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
The new FIDE rating regulations announced in January are now in effect: Most notably, players rated below 2000 had their ratings increased by 40% of the difference between their old rating and 2000, and the rating floor was raised from 1000 to 1400.
Follow more super GM action until March 7 in the 8-player round-robin Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024 with world number 5 Anish Giri, Arjun Erigaisi and Daniil Dubov.
Based on your feedback following the loss of chess24 as a platform to watch live chess events, our team has been working on major changes to Lichess broadcasts. We have summarised the changes in our Broadcast Updates blog!
Round 1 of this year's Prague Chess Festival has started, featuring super GMs such as Praggnanandhaa, Abdusattorov and Keymer in the Masters and GMs Korobov, l’Ami and Mishra among others in the Challengers section. The festival runs until March 7.
The FIDE World Corporate Chess Championship 2024 online qualifiers and knockout stages will be played on Lichess between March 16 and April 20. The top 8 teams will advance to the finals held in New York City from June 15 to 17. Corporations wishing to register their team can do so now.
One of the most requested features for our mobile app, the broadcasts, will finally be available in the upcoming new app, as our developer @veloce confirmed on YouTube!
Congratulations to GM Andrew Tang for winning the Titled Arena February '24 with GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk and Daniel Naroditsky in close second and third places!
Join us in 6 hours for our 1+0 Bullet Warm-up Arena and get the chance to play against some of the titled players before the Titled Arena!
We have continued to make lots of changes to our broadcasts, including support for team events, tournament sections and the integration of a FIDE player database to automatically add the correct player names, ratings & titles. See all of it in action in the final round of the Mitropa Cup!
GM Felix Blohberger provides a retrospective of the World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2023 and annotated some of his favourite games for us!
"The blunders are all there on the board, waiting to be made." — Savielly Tartakower, founder of the hypermodern school and inventor of the now widespread Catalan Opening, was born on this day in 1887.
Did you know that you can remove all visible ratings from Lichess? Games can still be rated, and ratings are used for all the same purposes, but you will never see them.
Congratulations Koosha Jaferian Fan Club for winning the Streamers Battle February '24 and the first prize of $500! Congrats also to IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 2nd place ($300), PAPASIonates (3rd, $150) and IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS (4th, $100). Thanks to all 2797 registered players for participating!
Ashwath Kaushik is reportedly the youngest player ever to win against a GM in classical chess after beating Jacek Stopa in the Burgdorfer Stadthaus-Open at the age of 8 years, 6 months & 11 days. The previous record was apparently set in January by Leonid Ivanovic, who was about 5 months older.
It's time again for our week of Variant Shield Arenas, starting in 4 hours with the Chess960 Arena! The winner will have to defend the unique trophy in next month's tournament.
We recently indirectly contributed to the research of Google DeepMind: Learn more about it in our latest video on YouTube!
Magnus Carlsen won the Chess960 G.O.A.T Challenge, drawing the first game of the final and winning the second against runner-up Fabiano Caruana. Levon Aronian took third place, defeating Nodirbek Abdusattorov. World Champion Ding Liren finished last without winning a single game in the tournament.
Vera Menchik, the first and longest-reigning Women's World Champion, was born on this day in 1906. Players who lost to her were said to have joined the Vera Menchik Club, whose members included Euwe, Reshevsky and Colle; she also drew with Najdorf and her trainer Maroczy.
The Yearly Crazyhouse Arena starts in 4 hours! Prepare for exciting tactical blitz games in the variant that lets you drop captured pieces back on the board.
World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and GM Fabiano Caruana eliminated GM Levon Aronian in an Armageddon tiebreak game to advance to the Chess960 G.O.A.T. Challenge Final beginning tomorrow.
Our Yearly SuperBlitz Arena starts in 6 hours! Join us and thousands of players for 5 hours of 3+0 blitz chess.
Congrats @najvazniji on winning the Lichess Game of the Month January 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!