Al-Ain ACMG UAE are the World Rapid Team Champions 2024 with their top performers GMs Dmitry Andreikin, Vladislav Artemiev and Parham Maghsoodloo. The first ever World Blitz Team Championship was won by the WR Chess Team, including GMs Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hou Yifan among others.
Our August 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, starts in 3 hours! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.
The Story of Lichess documentary premieres on YouTube today at 17:00 UTC! Watch to learn about the largest chess charity in the world, get to know our team and much more.
Congratulations to @Ragehunter for winning our 2024 Summer Marathon with a 69% win rate in 867 games, followed by close runner-up @Fritzi_2003 who was in the lead for a long time! Thanks to all 20,000+ registered users who played a total of 465,909 games.
Join our 2024 Summer Marathon, starting at midnight UTC, for 24 hours of 1+0 bullet chess and be part of one of the biggest chess tournaments in history! The winner, top 10, top 50, top 100 and top 500 players will all get a unique trophy.
The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships 2024 have started in Astana, Kazakhstan, featuring GMs Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Ju Wenjun and many more! The World Rapid Team Championship will be played until 4 August, with the Blitz section taking place the next day.
Our Game of the Month July Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in July 2024 until 5 August! The winner will be announced on 14 August, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
The FIDE 100 World Record attempt for the most chess games played worldwide online and offline in one day was successful! Together we contributed 1,117,345 eligible games out of a total of 2,958,024 rated games played on Lichess during the 24 hours!
Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Titled Arena July 2024 in a very close finish, just one point ahead of GM Alireza Firouzja! GM Nihal Sarin came in 3rd, losing his final game against eventual winner Naroditsky.
Our next 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 4 hours! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!
For the third year in a row, GM Liêm Quang Lê has won the Biel Masters, ahead of GMs Haik Martirosyan and R Praggnanandhaa. GM Salem Saleh came out on top of the first ever Biel Challengers tournament.
The last stage of the Biel Masters has started! GMs R Praggnanandhaa, Liêm Quang Lê, Abhimanyu Mishra and Haik Martirosyan are competing in a final round-robin tournament until 25 July, while the winner of the Challengers will be decided between GMs Salem Saleh, Alexander Donchenko and R Vaishali.
This month's week of Variant Shield Arenas starts in just 1 hour with the 3+2 Chess960 Arena! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's arena.
For the next 24 hours, all rated games played on Lichess with a minimum time control of 3 min + 2 sec, or equivalent such as 5+0, and lasting at least 15 moves will count towards the FIDE 100 World Record Attempt for the most chess games played online and offline in one day!
Lichess releases a new Broadcaster App, making it easier to broadcast OTB events to a live Lichess Broadcast. Read all about it here.
Watch the historic New York 1924 Centennial, featuring former U16 World Champion GM Aleksandr Lenderman, speed chess expert GM Andrew Tang and two-time U.S. Women's Champion WGM Jennifer Yu until 21 July in our broadcast and on the Marshall Chess Club Twitch channel with IM Luís Henrique Coelho.
Your donations and support have allowed us to do many awesome things this half-year that we hope you enjoy! We will continue to work hard to give you the best free, libre, and open-source chess experience. Read our half-year update blog to see how we have changed for the better.
Congratulations to IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for winning the Streamers Battle July 2024! Congrats also to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for taking 2nd place, SergeyVoronChess NEW for coming in 3rd place and Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,650 registered players!
Streamers and their communities, get ready for the Streamers Battle July 2024 with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4, starting in 3 hours!
Congrats @MrCrusher on winning the Lichess Game of the Month June 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
GM Fabiano Caruana won the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia, just 9 days after taking 1st place in the Superbet Romania Chess Classic. His strong performance with 7.5/9 in the Rapid section secured him the victory ahead of tied GMs Alireza Firouzja, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Wesley So.
Congratulations to GM Benjamin Bok for winning our Chess960 Titled Arena July 2024! Runner-up IM Vahe Danielyan was only 2 points behind and GM Matthias Blübaum finished in 3rd place.
Our Chess960 3+2 Warm-up Arena starts in just 3 hours! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Chess960 Titled Arena!
GMs Fabiano Caruana, Gukesh D, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Anish Giri and others meet again in the SuperUnited Rapid & Blitz Croatia 2024! The Rapid section will be played from today until 12 July, followed by a Blitz double round-robin the two days after.