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11 Sep 2024, 19.01
Join us on YouTube and Twitch in just one hour at 13:00 UTC for Round 1 of the Olympiad Budapest 2024 with our hosts GM Illia Nyzhnyk and IM Eric Rosen - including live camera feeds!

9 Sep 2024, 21.00
You can now enable the new Stockfish 17 (79MB net) for analysis in the engine settings menu! Stockfish 16 is still available with a smaller 7MB net. Thanks to the Stockfish team for developing and providing their free and open-source engine!

8 Sep 2024, 21.17
Watch our latest interview and analysis with none other than IM Eric Rosen and of course our Lewis Chess Legends stream host IM Irene Sukandar!

7 Sep 2024, 18.45
Lichess had a productive August, with a total of 141 pull requests from 33 contributors, including 9 first-time ones! Check out more details on our updated changelog.

6 Sep 2024, 15.55
Our August 2024 free and open databases are available for download, bringing the total number of games now to over 5.9 billion in standard chess and 119 million across variants!

3 Sep 2024, 21.00
The September 3+0 SuperBlitz Shield Arena, the second of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, starts in 2 hours! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.

2 Sep 2024, 13.00
Check out our series of interviews and analyses on YouTube with famous players such as the former highest rated woman in the world, GM Pia Cramling, and Magnus Carlsen's main second in the 2013 World Championship match, GM Jon Ludvig Hammer - more to come!

1 Sep 2024, 18.50
Our Game of the Month August Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in August 2024 until 5 September! The winner will be announced on 14 September, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

31 Agu 2024, 00.05
We have updated our Masters Database with about 200,000 new games since 2022, now available in the Opening Explorer!

28 Agu 2024, 06.10
Clicking on a player's name in broadcasts now redirects you to a new, mobile-friendly page with more information about the player in the tournament.

25 Agu 2024, 11.38
Congratulations to GM Nihal Sarin for winning our Titled Arena August 2024, tied with GM Daniel Naroditsky, but with a 23-point better performance as the tiebreaker! GM Javohir Sindarov took 3rd place.

24 Agu 2024, 20.00
Our next 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 3 hours at 16:00 UTC! You will have the chance again to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!

20 Agu 2024, 21.30
Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning the Streamers Battle August 2024! Congrats also to runners-up IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS, Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for taking 3rd place and IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,852 registered players!

18 Agu 2024, 21.40
Hovering over player names in broadcast games will now display additional information, including their previous games and opponents, estimated Elo rating change and score! This information is also available in the new Players tab, which you can sort by clicking on one of the column titles.

15 Agu 2024, 20.00
The first of six FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournaments started in Tbilisi, Georgia! Until 24 August, some of the strongest women, including former World Champions Alexandra Kosteniuk and Mariya Muzychuk, GMs R Vaishali, Anna Muzychuk and IM Sara Khadem, will try to earn points for the WGP Series.

15 Agu 2024, 03.25
Congrats @Schmobi on winning the Lichess Game of the Month July 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

13 Agu 2024, 20.10
Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle on 19 August at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!

11 Agu 2024, 04.55
Congratulations to IM @Wafwhij02 for winning our Blitz Titled Arena August 2024! IM Mukhiddin Madaminov finished 2nd with a 97% berserk rate and GM Volodar Murzin was just one point behind in 3rd place.

10 Agu 2024, 21.00
In just 2 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!

9 Agu 2024, 23.50
We have recently added a 4-piece Antichess tablebase! It works like the tablebase you are used to from standard chess and can be enabled via the book icon in analysis. To our knowledge, this is the first Antichess tablebase using Distance-to-Win. Thanks to @tolius for generating and providing it!

7 Agu 2024, 23.27
Over 30 people contributed code to Lichess last month! See what was worked on in the updated Changelog.

6 Agu 2024, 20.10
The Lewis Chess Legends 2024 starts today at 15:00 UTC, featuring GM Jon Ludvig Hammer and IM Eric Rosen among others! Join us and our commentator IM Irene Sukandar on YouTube and Twitch every day until 14 August.

6 Agu 2024, 07.00
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.

5 Agu 2024, 20.00
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.

4 Agu 2024, 22.00
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.

4 Agu 2024, 07.25
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.

3 Agu 2024, 03.00
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.

2 Agu 2024, 18.40
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.

1 Agu 2024, 21.15
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.

31 Jul 2024, 01.00
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!

28 Jul 2024, 04.20
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.

27 Jul 2024, 19.00
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!

26 Jul 2024, 04.22
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.

24 Jul 2024, 07.00
Today, Wednesday 24th July, Lichess will undergo scheduled maintenance between 02:00 and 03:00 UTC. We apologise for any inconvenience.

23 Jul 2024, 21.20
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.

21 Jul 2024, 22.00
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.

20 Jul 2024, 05.00
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!

19 Jul 2024, 19.00
Lichess releases a new Broadcaster App, making it easier to broadcast OTB events to a live Lichess Broadcast. Read all about it here.

19 Jul 2024, 01.17
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.

17 Jul 2024, 03.45
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.

16 Jul 2024, 01.45
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!

15 Jul 2024, 19.00
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!

15 Jul 2024, 05.00
Congrats @MrCrusher on winning the Lichess Game of the Month June 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

15 Jul 2024, 01.55
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.

14 Jul 2024, 09.40
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.

13 Jul 2024, 21.00
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!

10 Jul 2024, 19.45
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.

8 Jul 2024, 21.00
Our July 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, starts in just 2 hours! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.

7 Jul 2024, 01.30
GM Ziaur Rahman died at the age of 50 during his game against GM Enamul Hossain in the Bangladeshi Championship. Our condolences go out to his family, friends and many fans. We encourage easy access to defibrillators and trained medical personnel at chess tournaments.

6 Jul 2024, 09.42
GM Fabiano Caruana won the Superbet Romania Chess Classic 2024 in a four-way rapid tiebreaker, beating GMs Alireza Firouzja, Gukesh D and R Praggnanandhaa. The tiebreaker was needed after GM Anish Giri defeated Caruana in their classical game.

5 Jul 2024, 17.30
Heading into the final round, GM Fabiano Caruana leads the Superbet Romania Classic - where 34 out of 40 games ended in a draw so far. His opponent GM Anish Giri has no chance of winning the tournament anymore, while GMs Gukesh D, R Praggnanandhaa and Alireza Firouzja are just 0.5 points behind.

2 Jul 2024, 20.00
The 2024 World Chess Championship match between defending champion Ding Liren and challenger Gukesh D will be held in Singapore from 20 November to 15 December, FIDE announced on its website.

1 Jul 2024, 20.40
Our Game of the Month June Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in June 2024 until 5 July! The winner will be announced on 14 July, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

1 Jul 2024, 16.30
See what our developers and community contributors have been working on over the past month in our updated changelog. Thanks to Bsmick6 and henrique-barros, you can now enable board coordinates on all squares - including the Coordinates Trainer!

30 Jun 2024, 21.20
At the age of 10 years, 8 months and 16 days, FM Faustino Oro is set to become the youngest International Master in chess history after a draw against IM Fernando Valenzuela Gomez in Round 9 of the Cerrado IM Barcelona! IM Cristian Andres Hernandez took 1st place with better tiebreaks than Oro.

30 Jun 2024, 15.00
10-year-old FM Faustino Oro needs at least a draw with Black against IM Fernando Valenzuela Gomez in the final round of the Cerrado IM Barcelona to achieve his third IM norm and become the youngest International Master ever! Follow the game now in our broadcast.

28 Jun 2024, 18.43
We interviewed the former Women's World Champion and next Women's World Championship challenger GM Tan Zhongyi after her dominant win in this year's Women's Candidates Tournament. Many thanks to WFM Yilin Li for the translation! Read the interview here.

26 Jun 2024, 19.41
The Superbet Romania Chess Classic 2024 has started! Watch GMs Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Gukesh D, Anish Giri and others compete over 9 rounds in our broadcast until 5 July.

24 Jun 2024, 06.00
Enjoy playing with two new piece sets now available: Cooke by fejfar and Monarchy by slither77! Select them from the Piece set option in your account menu.

23 Jun 2024, 03.30
Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Titled Arena June 2024, 35 points ahead of runner-up GM Nihal Sarin! GM Minh Lê took 3rd place.

22 Jun 2024, 21.00
Our next 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 2 hours! You will have the chance again to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!

20 Jun 2024, 18.00
Lichess turns 14 years old today! Thanks to all our users, contributors and supporters. Join the celebration tournament here.

19 Jun 2024, 22.00
You can now add a custom flair to your studies, choosing from over 3,000 icons in the study settings, that appears on all study pages.

18 Jun 2024, 23.00
GM Arjun Erigaisi is the clear winner of the 5th Stepan Avagyan Memorial, 1.5 points ahead of a group including GMs Samuel Sevian, Amin Tabatabaei and Bogdan-Daniel Deac. Arjun is now ranked no. 4 in the world with a live rating of 2778 - 17 rating points above his peak!

18 Jun 2024, 05.30
Congratulations to Target_B for winning the Streamers Battle June '24! Congrats also to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for taking 2nd place, SergeyVoronChess NEW for coming in 3rd place and IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 2,096 registered players!

17 Jun 2024, 16.00
Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4, starting in just 6 hours!

15 Jun 2024, 22.00
Due to popular demand, you can now donate to support Lichess in 112 additional currencies.

15 Jun 2024, 00.00
Congrats @Javier1009 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month May 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

14 Jun 2024, 20.40
GM Nodirbek Yakubboev, being the lowest rated participant of the tournament, has won the UzChess Cup 2024 Masters on slightly better tiebreaks than runner-up GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov! GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov is the winner of the Challengers and GM Vitaly Sivuk took 1st place in the Futures section.

14 Jun 2024, 14.15
Watch the final round of the UzChess Cup 2024 now with us and our host IM Irene Sukandar on YouTube and Twitch! GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Nodirbek Yakubboev still share the lead and play with White against the two players 0.5 points behind them, GMs Alexey Sarana and Yu Yangyi respectively.

13 Jun 2024, 19.30
IM, and soon-to-be GM, Kazybek Nogerbek is the World Junior Champion 2024, beating GM Emin Ohanyan on tiebreak criteria, both with 8.5/11 points! IM Divya Deshmukh has won the World Junior Girls Championship undefeated with only 2 draws, closely followed by WIM Mariam Mkrtchyan, half a point behind!

11 Jun 2024, 21.30
Following a complaint by the Ukrainian Chess Federation, Andrey Baryshpolets and Peter Heine Nielsen, the FIDE Ethics Commission has reprimanded FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich and excluded the Russian Chess Federation from membership for 2 years. FIDE and Dvorkovich want to appeal the decision.

10 Jun 2024, 19.45
YouTuber Paralogical has analysed our free and open database of over 5 billion games to find The rarest move in chess in an entertaining and informative video! The open source code behind the analysis is available on GitHub.

9 Jun 2024, 17.15
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 4 of the UzChess Cup 2024, hosted by IM Irene Sukandar and featuring player camera feeds from the playing hall! GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Nodirbek Yakubboev and Yu Yangyi are currently sharing the lead with 2 out of 3 points.

9 Jun 2024, 04.38
Congratulations to GM Dmitry Andreikin for winning our Blitz Titled Arena June '24 with a 13-point lead! GM Akshat Chandra berserked all of his games to take 2nd place and IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher finished 3rd.

8 Jun 2024, 21.00
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!

8 Jun 2024, 08.30
GM Magnus Carlsen took 1st place in Norway Chess 2024! Runner-up GM Hikaru Nakamura managed to climb back above 2800 in the live ratings and is now ranked 2nd in the world. GM Ju Wenjun won the women's section ahead of GM Anna Muzychuk, both undefeated in all 10 classical games of the tournament.

7 Jun 2024, 22.20
The final round of Norway Chess has started! Leader GM Magnus Carlsen plays GM Fabiano Caruana, while 2nd placed GM Hikaru Nakamura faces GM R Praggnanandhaa. In the women's section, reigning World Champion GM Ju Wenjun must not lose to her 2023 challenger GM Lei Tingjie to win the tournament.

7 Jun 2024, 02.15
After 1.5 years of active development by our mobile developer, @veloce, we are releasing the new Lichess mobile app in public beta. Read about it and download from our blog.

6 Jun 2024, 21.50
Thank you to the 41 contributors who helped write code for Lichess last month! We improved the accessibility for our lobby user interface and much more, see what we've been working on in the updated changelog.

5 Jun 2024, 16.47
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the Uzchess Cup 2024 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, featuring a prize pool of over $160,000! Join us for live coverage on our Twitch and YouTube channels, with commentary by IM Irene Sukandar including live cameras from the playing hall! Don't miss out on the action!

4 Jun 2024, 21.20
GM Roberto García Pantoja is the 2024 Americas Continental Champion! He finished a clear point ahead of a group of ten players, including 10-year-old FM Faustino Oro, who beat 2607-rated GM Georg Meier in the final round.

3 Jun 2024, 22.20
GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, currently ranked 1st and 2nd respectively, meet again in Round 7 of Norway Chess! World Champion Ding Liren, still in last place, will try to bounce back from his defeat to Carlsen yesterday - missing mate in two with over 30 minutes on the clock.

3 Jun 2024, 21.00
Our 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, starts in 2 hours! The winner gets a unique trophy and will keep it until next month's tournament.

2 Jun 2024, 22.17
10-year-old FM Faustino Oro has achieved his second IM norm in the Americas Continental Championship! Oro already holds the record for being the youngest player ever to achieve an IM norm. He is now just one norm and a 2400 rating away from the title. Follow the games of the final round, with GM Pantoja in the lead.

1 Jun 2024, 19.00
Our Game of the Month May Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in May 2024 until 5 June! The winner will be announced on 14 June, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

30 Mei 2024, 22.10
GM R Praggnanandhaa beat world number one Magnus Carlsen yesterday to take the lead in Norway Chess and plays GM Hikaru Nakamura today! In the Women's tournament we see a rematch from the last World Championship between GMs Lei Tingjie and Ju Wenjun, follow these and more games in our broadcasts.

28 Mei 2024, 22.03
Watch our Norway Chess 2024 broadcasts now as GMs Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura face off in Round 2, and reigning Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun takes on GM Anna Muzychuk in the Women's tournament.

28 Mei 2024, 00.40
Congratulations to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for winning the Streamers Battle May '24! Congrats also to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 2nd place, SergeyVoronChess NEW taking 3rd place and IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club finishing 4th. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,915 registered players!

27 Mei 2024, 21.30
We now have Stockfish 16.1 (70MB net) available on web! Enable it in the engine settings menu. Stockfish 16 is also available with a smaller 7MB net, and all our engines are computing faster than before, thanks to a recent update!

26 Mei 2024, 03.20
Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning the Titled Arena May 2024, just 2 points ahead of runner-up GM Ediz Gürel, who was on a 6-game winning streak! 3rd place went to GM Matthias Blübaum.

25 Mei 2024, 21.00
This month's 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 2 hours! You'll have the chance again to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!

25 Mei 2024, 04.20
The Sharjah Masters was our first stream with live player camera feeds! Many thanks to our stream host Irene Sukandar, @TotalNoob69 for developing a necessary browser extension tool on short notice and to the whole team who made this stream possible!

22 Mei 2024, 23.20
GM Bardiya Daneshvar is the close winner of the Sharjah Masters on tiebreak criteria - tied with GMs Volodar Murzin, Sam Shankland and Shamsiddin Vokhidov. Congratulations to our successful Lichess online qualifier IM Mahdi Gholami Orimi for achieving his final GM norm and a live rating of 2500!

22 Mei 2024, 18.05
Watch the final round of the Sharjah Masters now on YouTube and Twitch, hosted by IM Irene Sukandar! GMs Bardiya Daneshvar, Volodar Murzin and Sam Shankland share the lead and 7 other players, including top seeded GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Parham Maghsoodloo, are still in contention for 1st place.

21 Mei 2024, 18.06
With just two rounds to play, GMs Bardiya Daneshvar and Sam Shankland have taken the joint lead in the Sharjah Masters and face each other today in Round 8! Watch with us now on YouTube and Twitch, hosted by IM Irene Sukandar.

20 Mei 2024, 18.10
GM Aravindh Chithambaram still leads the Sharjah Masters. In Round 7 we see games between GMs Hans Moke Niemann and Sam Shankland, Arjun Erigaisi and Parham Maghsoodloo, Salem Saleh and Yu Yangyi and more. Join us now on YouTube and Twitch, hosted by IM Irene Sukandar, with cameras on top boards!

20 Mei 2024, 04.50
Former World Champion Magnus Carlsen has won the Casablanca Chess 2024 undefeated with 4.5/6, ahead of GMs Hikaru Nakamura (3.5), Viswanathan Anand (3) and Bassem Amin (1).

20 Mei 2024, 01.14
Watch Day 2 of the Casablanca Chess from position variant tournament now on YouTube and Twitch, hosted by IM Irene Sukandar, with live player cameras! GM Magnus Carlsen leads after Day 1, followed by GM Hikaru Nakamura in 2nd place, GMs Viswanathan Anand and Bassem Amin tied for 3rd.

19 Mei 2024, 22.00
This month's week of Variant Shield Arenas starts in 1 hour with the 3+2 Chess960 Arena! The winner gets a unique trophy and will keep it until the next tournament.

19 Mei 2024, 18.14
GM Aravindh Chithambaram has taken the sole lead in the Sharjah Masters and plays GM Sam Shankland in Round 6 today! Join us on YouTube and Twitch, hosted by IM Irene Sukandar, with player cameras on top boards for GMs Salem Saleh vs Amin Tabatabaei and Daniil Yuffa vs Arjun Erigaisi among others.

19 Mei 2024, 04.03
Congratulations to GM Oleksandr Bortnyk for winning the Blitz Titled Arena May '24! 2nd place went to GM Alireza Firouzja, who berserked all his games, and GM David Paravyan finished 3rd.

18 Mei 2024, 22.12
Watch Day 1 of the special Casablanca Chess event featuring GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Viswanathan Anand and Bassem Amin on YouTube and Twitch, hosted again by IM Irene Sukandar and with live player cameras from the venue.

18 Mei 2024, 21.00
In just 3 hours, you'll have another chance to play against some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!

18 Mei 2024, 18.06
Watch Round 5 of the Sharjah Masters with commentary by our host IM Irene Sukandar and player cameras on YouTube and Twitch as three players - GMs Hans Moke Niemann, Aravindh Chithambaram and Salem Saleh - are still tied for the lead after drawing their games yesterday.

17 Mei 2024, 23.00
Our Yearly Classical Arena starts in 1 hour! Join us and thousands of players for 10 hours of 20+10 classical chess.

17 Mei 2024, 18.07
Join our host IM Irene Sukandar for Round 4 of the Sharjah Masters! Co-leaders GM Salem Saleh and GM Hans Moke Niemann face off, while the only other player on 3 points, GM Aravindh Chithambaram, takes on GM Amin Tabatabaei. Watch now on YouTube and Twitch, with player cameras on top boards!

17 Mei 2024, 13.45
Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle on the 27th at 15:00 UTC with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!

16 Mei 2024, 18.10
Watch Round 3 of the Sharjah Masters 2024 with us and our host IM Irene Sukandar now on YouTube and Twitch! Top seed GM Arjun Erigaisi will try to bounce back with a win over GM Nikolozi Kachavara after his surprising loss to GM Nikolas Theodorou yesterday, who plays GM Hans Moke Niemann this round.

16 Mei 2024, 16.05
Enable the keyboard input option and play by typing moves in standard algebraic notation. This now works not only in games and puzzles, but also in analysis and studies!

15 Mei 2024, 18.05
Round 2 of the Sharjah Masters 2024 is about to start, with GM Vasyl Ivanchuk taking on GM M. Amin Tabatabaei among others! Join us and our host IM Irene Sukandar for commentary on YouTube and Twitch.

15 Mei 2024, 15.00
Our April 2024 free and open databases are available for download, bringing the total number of games now to over 5.5 billion in standard chess and 114 million across variants!

14 Mei 2024, 03.30
The Sharjah Masters 2024 kicks off tomorrow with GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Parham Maghsoodloo, Yu Yangyi and others. We will be streaming the event with commentary by our host IM Irene Sukandar on Twitch and YouTube from 13:00 UTC tomorrow and 11:00 UTC the following days until 22 May!

14 Mei 2024, 02.00
Congrats @PrydunAndrii2004 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month April 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

13 Mei 2024, 03.50
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2024 Superbet Poland, overtaking and beating GM Wei Yi on the final day of blitz! World Championship challenger GM Gukesh D finished in last place.

12 Mei 2024, 07.35
Congratulations to @Gakolchess765 for finishing 1st in our 2024 Spring Marathon, winning 69% of the total 336 games with a berserk rate of 99%, followed by runner-up @Ragehunter and @Fritzi_2003 in 3rd place! Thanks to all 22,000+ players who participated.

11 Mei 2024, 21.30
@EricRosen has streamed the entire 2024 Spring Marathon so far on Twitch! Make sure to join one of our classic events for the remaining 10 hours - together with over 16,000 players already!

11 Mei 2024, 02.30
Join our 2024 Spring Marathon for 24 hours of 5+0 blitz chess and be part of the biggest chess tournament in history, starting at midnight UTC! The winner, top 10, top 50, top 100 and top 500 players will all get a unique trophy.

11 Mei 2024, 00.05
GM Wei Yi leads the 2024 Superbet Poland after the rapid section, ahead of GMs Magnus Carlsen and Praggnanandhaa R. The winner of the event, which also features World Championship challenger GM Gukesh D, will be decided in blitz games over the next two days, starting at 11:05 UTC.

7 Mei 2024, 00.15
You can now adjust the hue, brightness and opacity of your board! Customise to your liking in the board settings of your account menu.

6 Mei 2024, 06.30
Congratulations to GM David Navara, who annotated 4 games of the 2023 World Championship on Lichess, for winning the Czech Championship for a record 13th time! After an early loss in round 3, he came back with a queen sacrifice in the next round and went on to win all 6 remaining games.

3 Mei 2024, 23.25
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov has won the TePe Sigeman & Co 2024 in a 3-player tiebreak against GMs Peter Svidler and Arjun Erigaisi.

2 Mei 2024, 23.00
Thank you to the 30 contributors who helped write code for Lichess last month! See what we've been working on in the updated changelog.

2 Mei 2024, 20.45
The tied leaders of the TePe Sigeman & Co 2024, GMs Arjun Erigaisi and Peter Svidler, are playing against each other right now, ahead of tomorrow's final round! Follow all the games of Round 6 in our broadcast.

1 Mei 2024, 10.10
Our Game of the Month April Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in April 2024 until 5 May! The winner will be announced one week after the deadline, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

30 Apr 2024, 01.00
IM Ulviyya Fataliyeva has won the European Women's Chess Championship 2024! A draw in the final round against GM Nino Batsiashvili was enough to secure the title undefeated with 8.5/10. IMs Nataliya Buksa and Lela Javakhishvili finished 2nd and 3rd respectively with 7.5 points on tiebreak criteria.

29 Apr 2024, 15.00
Vote for the People's Choice Excellence on Boards Award by the ECU Women's Commision for the next 7 hours! Take a look at the 27 selected games in this study and submit your two favourites in the Google Form. Watch the final round of the European Women's Chess Championship 2024 play out on Lichess.

28 Apr 2024, 05.00
Congratulations to GM Alireza Firouzja for winning the Titled Arena April '24! Runner-up GM Daniel Naroditsky was just 4 points behind and third place went to GM Andrew Tang, who finished the tournament with 7 berserked wins in a row!

27 Apr 2024, 22.00
In 2 hours, you will have the chance again to face some of the titled players in our 1+0 Bullet Warm-up Arena before they enter the Titled Arena!

26 Apr 2024, 22.20
Want to learn and practise chessboard coordinates intuitively? We have the perfect solution: Voice recognition in our Coordinates Trainer! Select "Name square" and click the voice recognition button at the bottom to get started.

23 Apr 2024, 19.36
Hear all about Lichess from our Director of Operations, Theo Wait, in ChessBase India's recent interview!

22 Apr 2024, 07.58
Gukesh has won the 2024 Candidates in a dramatic finale, and is officially the new World Championship Challenger! More updates to come in our blog.

22 Apr 2024, 05.18
Tan Zhongyi has won the 2024 Women's Candidates and will challenge Ju Wenjun for the Women's World Championship!

22 Apr 2024, 01.51
Join us and our hosts IMs Irene Sukandar, Laura Unuk and Eric Rosen for Round 14 of the Candidates now on Twitch and YouTube! With 17-year-old Gukesh in the lead of the Open, 4 players still in contention to win and all of them playing each other, today could be historic!

21 Apr 2024, 01.47
Watch Round 13 of the Candidates with us and our hosts IMs Irene Sukandar and Laura Unuk now on Twitch and YouTube! Get ready for a pivotal game in the three-way tied Open between leaders Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura & Tan Zhongyi vs Aleksandra Goryachkina in the Women's section among others.

20 Apr 2024, 20.15
The final rest day of the Open and Women's Candidates is over: Check out our Round 12 recap blog with annotations from GM Brandon Jacobson and IM / WGM Padmini Rout ahead of the penultimate round, which starts at 18:45 UTC today.

19 Apr 2024, 18.58
The European Women Chess Championship kicks off in less than 5 minutes in Rhodes, Greece, with 182 players from 35 countries participating! You can follow the games here.

19 Apr 2024, 01.52
Watch Round 12 of the Candidates with us and our hosts IM Irene Sukandar, IM Laura Unuk and GM Felix Blohberger on Twitch and YouTube. Current Open leader Nepomniachtchi takes on Praggnanandhaa and Women's leader Tan tries to defend her 1st place with Black against Salimova.

19 Apr 2024, 00.15
With just 3 rounds to go, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Tan Zhongyi are back in the sole lead of the Open and Women's Candidates, respectively. Find out what happened in Round 11 of the Candidates in our recap blog.

19 Apr 2024, 00.00
Our Yearly Rapid Arena has started! Join us and thousands of players for 8 hours of 10+0 rapid chess.

18 Apr 2024, 01.15
Join us for Round 11 of the Open and Women's Candidates with our hosts IM Irene Sukandar, IM Laura Unuk and GM Felix Blohberger on Twitch and YouTube!

16 Apr 2024, 23.50
Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana bounced back, while Lei Tingjie now shares first place with Tan Zhongyi: Read what happened in Round 10 of the Candidates in our recap blog.

16 Apr 2024, 01.40
Join us now for Round 10 of the 2024 Candidates with our hosts IMs Irene Sukandar and Laura Unuk on Twitch and YouTube!

15 Apr 2024, 22.42
Vidit Gujrathi's second win over Hikaru Nakamura in the Open Candidates and Tan Zhongyi is back in the sole lead of the Women's Candidates: Find out what happened in Round 9 in our recap blog.

14 Apr 2024, 13.30
Gukesh D defeated Vidit Gujrathi to tie for 1st place again, Hikaru Nakamura beat Fabiano Caruana and clear leader Tan Zhongyi lost to Lei Tingjie: Read what happened in Round 8 of the Open and Women's Candidates in our recap blog with annotations from GM Brandon Jacobson and IM / WGM Padmini Rout.

14 Apr 2024, 08.40
Congratulations to GM Nihal Sarin for winning the Blitz Titled Arena April '24 with an outstanding lead of 39 points over runner-up GM Jose Martinez Alcantara, followed by IM Renato Alfredo Terry Lujan in third place!

13 Apr 2024, 23.59
We have two very special guests for our Candidates streams today and tomorrow: Super GM Pentala Harikrishna, 7x Indian Olympian with a peak rating of 2770, and Austrian Champion GM Felix Blohberger will join our hosts IMs Irene Sukandar and Laura Unuk on YouTube and Twitch from 18:30 UTC!

13 Apr 2024, 23.28
Happy Birthday, Garry Kasparov! The World Champion from 1985 to 2000 and undoubtedly one of the best chess players in history turned 61 today.

13 Apr 2024, 22.00
In just 3 hours, you'll have another chance to play against some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!

13 Apr 2024, 01.45
Congrats @bayamin on winning the Lichess Game of the Month March 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

12 Apr 2024, 22.33
Halfway through the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates, we have two clear leaders on the second rest day: Ian Nepomniachtchi and Tan Zhongyi respectively. Read our recap blog to find out what happened in Round 7.

12 Apr 2024, 14.15
Our March 2024 Standard and Variants databases are available for download: Over 6 million rated King of the Hill games have now been played on Lichess!

12 Apr 2024, 01.27
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 7 of the 2024 Candidates with our hosts Eric Rosen, Irene Sukandar and Laura Unuk!

11 Apr 2024, 21.40
Two decisive results in the Open Candidates and all decisive games in the Women's Candidates: We have summarised the action in our Round 6 recap blog.

11 Apr 2024, 01.24
Watch Round 6 of the 2024 Candidates now with us and our hosts IM Irene Sukandar and IM Laura Unuk on YouTube and Twitch! Among others, Nepomniachtchi faces Caruana, Gukesh plays against Nakamura and the sole women's section leader Tan takes on Muzychuk.

10 Apr 2024, 19.55
Gukesh D, who is now tied for 1st place with Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Hikaru Nakamura won their games in Round 5 of the 2024 Candidates, while all 4 games in the Women's Candidates were drawn. Read our recap of Round 5 with annotations from GM Brandon Jacobson and IM / WGM Padmini Rout.

10 Apr 2024, 01.22
The first rest day is over: Join us and our hosts IM Irene Sukandar and IM Laura Unuk for Round 5 of the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates now on YouTube and Twitch!

8 Apr 2024, 22.10
On the first rest day, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Tan Zhongyi are the sole leaders of the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates respectively. Find out what happened in Round 4 in our recap blog.

8 Apr 2024, 01.20
Tune in to our live streams on YouTube and Twitch for coverage of Round 4 of the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates, the last round before tomorrow's first rest day, with instructive commentary from IM Irene Sukandar on her birthday and GM Matthew Sadler!

7 Apr 2024, 11.33
The third round of the 2024 Candidates was peaceful compared to yesterday's spectacle, find out what happened in our blog. As usual, we're providing annotations on some of the games from GM Brandon Jacobson and IM / WGM Padmini Rout.

7 Apr 2024, 06.30
The first brother-sister duo to ever qualify for the Candidates, Praggnanandhaa and Vaishali, both bounced back from their defeats yesterday and scored the only wins in Round 3 of the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates!

7 Apr 2024, 01.35
Watch Round 3 of the 2024 Candidates now with us and our hosts Irene Sukandar and Eric Rosen on Twitch and YouTube! Follow the games in our Open and Women's broadcasts. Issues with the broadcast mobile layout have been fixed in the meantime.

6 Apr 2024, 12.45
Read our recap of an exciting Round 2 in the Candidates, GM Brandon Jacobson and IM / WGM Padmini Rout annotated some of the most interesting games.

6 Apr 2024, 08.40
All 4 games in Round 2 of the 2024 Candidates Open were decisive! Nepomniachtchi beat Firouzja and Nakamura lost his first classical game since the 2022 Candidates against Vidit. In the Women's Candidates, Tan took another win to have 2/2 and Goryachkina defeated World Cup third-placed A. Muzychuk.

6 Apr 2024, 01.14
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for our live stream coverage of Round 2 of the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates! Among others, Ian Nepomniachtchi will play against Alireza Firouzja and Aleksandra Goryachkina will face Anna Muzychuk.

5 Apr 2024, 21.45
Check out our recap of Round 1 of the 2024 FIDE Candidates including annotations for selected games by IM Lasse Løvik!

5 Apr 2024, 08.55
Day 1 of the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates ended with 7 draws: The only decisive result of the first round was Zhongyi Tan's victory with the black pieces over 2022-23 Women's Candidates winner and Women's World Championship runner-up Tingjie Lei.

4 Apr 2024, 09.00
The 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates to determine the challengers for the next World Championships start at 18:30 UTC in Toronto, Canada! Lichess will stream all 14 rounds on YouTube and Twitch, hosted by IM Irene Sukandar with co-hosts GM Matthew Sadler, IM Eric Rosen, IM Laura Unuk, and many other guests!

4 Apr 2024, 05.28
Broadcast improvements continued to be a main focus of our development efforts over the past month. See what else our developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog.

3 Apr 2024, 23.15
Are you ready for the Women's Candidates? Check out this great preview blog by @OnTheQueenside.

3 Apr 2024, 03.35
Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş achieved his third GM norm in the GRENKE Chess Open and is now the youngest GM in the world and the fourth youngest GM ever at the age of 12 years, 9 months and 29 days! Hans Niemann was the clear winner of the Open, beating Velimir Ivić in the final round and scoring 8/9 points.

2 Apr 2024, 13.00
Congratulations to IM Mahdi Gholami Orimi for winning the Sharjah Chess Masters online qualifier series, $400 and an invitation to the Sharjah Chess Masters 2024 from 13 to 24 May, with accommodation and full board covered, after defeating GM Boris Savchenko in the Knockouts final!

2 Apr 2024, 02.15
Magnus Carlsen is the winner of the GRENKE Chess Classic 2024, holding runner-up Richard Rapport to a draw in the final playoff game! Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took 3rd place against Vincent Keymer in the tiebreak, and world champion Ding Liren finished 5th with a 1.5-0.5 victory over Daniel Fridman.

1 Apr 2024, 08.37
Our Game of the Month March Contest has started: Share your best Lichess standard game played in March 2024 until 5 April! The winner will be announced one week after the deadline, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

31 Mar 2024, 21.42
Stage 3 of the Sharjah Chess Masters online qualifier series is underway! 8 players are competing for a prize fund of $1,100 - and an invitation to Sharjah Chess Masters 2024, with accommodation covered. You can follow all the chess action here.

30 Mar 2024, 21.38
The 10-game knight odds exhibition match between @LeelaKnightOdds and GM David Navara is taking place on Lichess right now! You can watch it in our broadcast and tune in to GM Matthew Sadler's live commentary on YouTube. Update: GM David Navara has won the match 7 to 3.

30 Mar 2024, 07.00
Stage 2 of the Sharjah Chess Masters online qualifier series, a 5+2 Swiss tournament, will start on Saturday, 30 March at 14:00 UTC. It is open to all titled players and the qualified untitled players from the Stage 1 arenas, with the top 8 advancing to the final Knockout Stage the following day!

29 Mar 2024, 07.53
Learn how to develop middlegame and endgame plans in two new instructive studies by @NoseKnowsAll: Particularly in the 1500-2000 Lichess rating range, you can learn to Talk to your pieces in Part 1. Players with a Lichess rating between 1900-2400 will get to know that Pawns aren't people in Part 2.

27 Mar 2024, 23.00
GM David Navara, the 12-time Czech Chess Champion and current number 65 in the FIDE rankings, will play a 10-game exhibition match on Lichess against the open source neural network based chess engine Leela Chess Zero with knight odds on Saturday, 30 March at 14:00 UTC!

26 Mar 2024, 21.25
The GRENKE Chess Classic 2024 has just started in Karlsruhe, Germany and features former and current world champions Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren among others competing in a rapid 45+10 double round-robin format until 1 April.

25 Mar 2024, 23.00
With many countries on holiday, there is plenty of chess to watch: The prestigious Fagernes Chess International is underway, a new Danish champion will be crowned, the final rounds of the Menchik Memorial and the Magistral Osasco are approaching, and the Mar del Plata Open is also taking place.

25 Mar 2024, 04.40
If your internet connection to Lichess seems unreasonably bad, try our new CDN routing network setting, which can improve reliability for some regions and ISPs.

24 Mar 2024, 04.50
Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning the Titled Arena March '24! GM Oleksandr Bortnyk came in second, just 4 points behind, and GM Emin Ohanyan took third place.

23 Mar 2024, 22.00
In 2 hours, you'll have the chance again to face some of the titled players in our 1+0 Bullet Warm-up Arena before they enter the Titled Arena!

23 Mar 2024, 00.25
GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac has emerged as the clear winner of the Reykjavik Open 2024, defeating GM Alisher Suleymenov with the black pieces after 118 moves in the final round.

22 Mar 2024, 01.00
The first Sharjah Chess Masters qualifier will start on Friday, 22 March at 06:00 UTC. The top 10 untitled players will advance to Stage 2, titled players are directly qualified. The second Stage 1 arena will start on Saturday, 23 March at 22:00 UTC and the third one on Sunday, 24 March at 15:00 UTC.

21 Mar 2024, 14.45
Registration for Season 39 of the Lichess4545 League is now open! Join us to celebrate 38 successful seasons of weekly classical 45+45 games with over 400 active players in the faster 15+15 Season 39 Kick-Off Arena starting on Saturday, 23 March at 23:00 UTC.

20 Mar 2024, 23.30
The 2024 African Chess Championships are over: WIM Jesse February won the Women's Championship with 7.5/9 points ahead of WIM Lina Nassr and WGM Shahenda Wafa. GM Bassem Amin clinched the Open Championship title undefeated with 8.5/9 points, followed by GM Bilel Bellahcene and IM Chitumbo Mwali.

20 Mar 2024, 07.30
GM Bassem Amin has topped the record four gold medals at the 13th African Games earlier this month by winning the African Open Championship with one more round to play! WIM Jesse Nikki February is leading the African Women's Championship after round 8 of 9, on her way to her second title after 2021.

19 Mar 2024, 01.30
Congratulations Koosha Jaferian Fan Club for winning the Streamers Battle March '24 and $500 once again! Congrats also to Saqochess & friends and fan club for 2nd place ($300), IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS (3rd, $150) and IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club (4th, $100). Thanks to all 2868 registered players!

18 Mar 2024, 21.00
Our 3+2 Crazyhouse Shield Arena, the second of eight Variant Shield Arenas this month, starts in 2 hours! All the rules and conventions of standard chess apply, but captured pieces can be dropped back on the board. The winner gets a unique trophy and will keep it until next month's tournament.

17 Mar 2024, 22.30
Did you know that desktop users can explore studies and analysis without looking at the move list by enabling variation arrows in the hamburger menu? Press , , or shift by itself to cycle the next move in a branch. Press shift and shift to quickly navigate to nearby variations.

16 Mar 2024, 22.00
Find your favourite OTB players on our new FIDE players page! Search by name and FIDE ID or click on a player name in a broadcast game and see all broadcast tournaments they played in. Federations are sorted by the top 10 players' average rating and the federation profile lists all of their players.

16 Mar 2024, 05.00
After the G.O.A.T. Challenge a month ago, Magnus Carlsen and Jan Henric Buettner launch the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour, consisting of five Chess960 tournaments per year, each held on a different continent. The first tournament will take place in India in November with a prize fund of $500,000.

15 Mar 2024, 23.00
The Yearly King of the Hill Arena starts in 1 hour! You win by moving your king to the center of the board, but otherwise standard chess rules apply, so checkmate is also possible.

15 Mar 2024, 19.55
Have a powerful computer that's always online? Want to contribute to Lichess? Now is a great time to request your fishnet key! As you may know, fishnet is the distributed program that powers the free server analysis on Lichess.

14 Mar 2024, 20.00
We have redesigned the broadcast interface: A new game list shows the engine evaluation and live clocks, navigation buttons replace the old tabs, the schedule is integrated into a new round dropdown, flags are displayed for each player and much more. Check it out in one of our broadcasts!

13 Mar 2024, 20.00
Our Yearly Blitz Arena starts in 4 hours! Join us and thousands of players for 6 hours of 5+0 blitz chess.

13 Mar 2024, 03.47
From 22 to 31 March, you have the chance to qualify for the Sharjah Chess Masters in a series of online tournaments held on Lichess with a prize fund of $1,000! The first of three Stage 1 qualifier arenas will start on Friday, 22 March at 06:00 UTC.

12 Mar 2024, 23.56
Congrats @Dgaleano on winning the Lichess Game of the Month February 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

11 Mar 2024, 22.20
ChessCam now allows you to play live games on Lichess with just a regular chessboard and a camera, as if it were an e-Board! To try and test it, simply follow the instructions by its developer @BlindfoldBlunderer. ChessCam is free and open-source.

10 Mar 2024, 22.52
Ever wanted to ask the Lichess Team anything? You can do so today in our Lichess Team AMA on r/chess! We will try to answer (almost) all your questions from 19:00 to 21:00 UTC. Feel free to get your questions in early!

10 Mar 2024, 05.45
Congratulations to GM Alireza Firouzja for winning the Chess960 Titled Arena March '24 with a berserk rate of 90%! GM Jose Martinez Alcantara finished in second place, 8 points behind.

9 Mar 2024, 22.15
Join the Chess960 Warm-up Arena for a chance to face some of the titled players before they enter the Chess960 Titled Arena! Last month saw the most rated Chess960 games played on Lichess since September 2022, available for download in our free and open database along with all the other rated games.

9 Mar 2024, 19.20
"I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves." — Robert James "Bobby" Fischer, 11th World Chess Champion and one of the most influential chess players of all time, was born on this day in 1943.

8 Mar 2024, 20.03
Happy International Women's Day! Join us for our 3-hour Thematic Women's Day Arena to celebrate this important day.

8 Mar 2024, 02.00
The Prague Chess Festival is over: GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the Masters 1.5 points ahead of a group led by GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen and is the new number 4 in the live ratings! The Challengers section was won by 15-year-old IM (and soon-to-be GM) Ediz Gürel, who achieved his 3rd and final GM norm.

7 Mar 2024, 23.00
The Lichess Bundesliga, world's largest online chess league, celebrates 2 million registrations after almost 4 years since its first edition! Join the next Lichess Bundesliga edition starting in 3 hours and celebrate together.

7 Mar 2024, 11.00
Final round of the Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024 in 2 hours: GMs Bu Xiangzhi, Yu Yangyi and Arjun Erigaisi are currently tied for first place with 4/6 points! Top seed GM Anish Giri hopes for a good result against Yu Yangyi to not finish last after a disappointing tournament performance.

7 Mar 2024, 01.43
Find out what's new on Lichess and see what our developers and community contributors have been working on over the past month in our updated changelog.

6 Mar 2024, 17.08
Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle on the 18th - again with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! It will start four hours earlier than usual to give users in different time zones better chances.

5 Mar 2024, 22.00
Our 3+0 SuperBlitz Shield Arena, the second of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, begins in 1 hour! The winner gets a unique trophy and will keep it until next month's tournament.

4 Mar 2024, 19.00
The pairings for the FIDE Open and Women's Candidates 2024 have been announced! However, with the tournaments only one month away, it is uncertain whether they can be held in Toronto: More than 40 people, including players and coaches, are reportedly still waiting for their visas to be approved.

3 Mar 2024, 19.20
Rest day in the Prague Chess Festival Masters: GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov leads undefeated with 4/5 points and a performance rating of over 2900, making him the new world number 5 in the live ratings! He will face GM Praggnanandhaa in round 6 tomorrow, while the Open section continues today.

2 Mar 2024, 18.00
Are you a chess teacher? You can use Lichess Class to create accounts, monitor progress, post homework, and message your students - all from a single hub!

1 Mar 2024, 23.00
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.

1 Mar 2024, 19.20
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.

29 Feb 2024, 21.30
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.

27 Feb 2024, 22.33
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!

27 Feb 2024, 21.19
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.

27 Feb 2024, 03.47
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.

26 Feb 2024, 05.45
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!

25 Feb 2024, 04.48
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!

24 Feb 2024, 18.00
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!

23 Feb 2024, 16.25
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!

22 Feb 2024, 23.55
GM Felix Blohberger provides a retrospective of the World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2023 and annotated some of his favourite games for us!

21 Feb 2024, 23.00
"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.

21 Feb 2024, 05.59
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.

20 Feb 2024, 04.21
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!

19 Feb 2024, 17.05
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.

18 Feb 2024, 19.00
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.

17 Feb 2024, 22.35
We recently indirectly contributed to the research of Google DeepMind: Learn more about it in our latest video on YouTube!

16 Feb 2024, 23.07
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.

16 Feb 2024, 21.00
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.

15 Feb 2024, 20.00
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.

15 Feb 2024, 01.42
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.

13 Feb 2024, 23.05
We want your thoughts on the home page! It stays between us and you don't need an account. Just follow this link and drag the choices into your preferred order. On mobile, press and hold to drag. Then hit Submit. EDIT: Poll is over for now, thanks for participating!

13 Feb 2024, 18.00
Our Yearly SuperBlitz Arena starts in 6 hours! Join us and thousands of players for 5 hours of 3+0 blitz chess.

13 Feb 2024, 03.10
Congrats @najvazniji on winning the Lichess Game of the Month January 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

12 Feb 2024, 18.15
Opening an ongoing broadcast automatically takes you to the Games tab now.

11 Feb 2024, 22.53
We have a brand new Content Management System powering our content pages.
This change will largely be invisible to end users, but in the future you may see some content translated into your favourite language.

11 Feb 2024, 19.15
The G.O.A.T Challenge Knockout Stage has started: Current World Champion Ding Liren surprisingly finished the Play-Off Stage in last place with only 0.5/7 points and has to face GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, while former World Champion Magnus Carlsen plays against GM Alireza Firouzja.

11 Feb 2024, 05.30
Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning the February Blitz Titled Arena ahead of GMs David Paravyan and Oleksandr Bortnyk!

10 Feb 2024, 19.00
In 6 hours, you'll have the chance again to compete with some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!

9 Feb 2024, 19.30
What is likely to be this year's strongest Chess960 event is underway: You can follow the 8-player tournament broadcast on Lichess, where Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren and 6 other top GMs will face off against each other. The G.O.A.T. Challenge is played in Germany from the 9th to the 16th.

8 Feb 2024, 19.25
We have updated the layout of our broadcast page: It is now more compact, features title images, and shows the number of viewers for ongoing tournaments. This is part of an overhaul that has already resulted in the addition of the multi-board Stockfish analysis and the subscription button to our broadcasts.

7 Feb 2024, 18.15
Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle on the 19th - again with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!

6 Feb 2024, 17.30
The legendary chess player Sultan Khan was awarded an honorary GM title by FIDE. His career only lasted about five years from 1929 to 1933, but he was considered to be among the top 10 players of that period and even managed to beat Capablanca.

5 Feb 2024, 21.00
We will start the first week of February Shield Arenas with the 1+0 Bullet Arena in two hours! The winner gets a unique trophy and must defend it in next month's tournament.

5 Feb 2024, 04.00
11 first-time contributors helped write code for Lichess in January! See what they and others worked on in this month's changelog.

4 Feb 2024, 22.25
Second day of the Kasparov Chess Foundation University Cup held on Lichess: Watch former World Champion Garry Kasparov himself commentating the games live! (Twitch)

4 Feb 2024, 19.10
A new Lichess API integration will show you how many Chess Opening Stamps you have collected. The code is open source and available on Github from community member khgiddon. Use our API to develop your own fun chess app!

4 Feb 2024, 02.35
Our January Standard and Variants databases are now available for download, containing over 100 million games combined this month, with Atomic and Horde reaching the milestones of 20 million and 5 million rated games in total!

3 Feb 2024, 05.45
GM Hans Niemann has been banned by the Saint Louis Chess Club from participating in any of their invitational events this year. In its official statement, the club cited his "inappropriate behavior including damaging private property, rude comments, and an uncooperative attitude". Niemann responded and described the club's statement as "completely inaccurate".

2 Feb 2024, 00.10
Our Game of the Month January Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in January 2024 until February 5th! The winner will be announced one week after the deadline, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

1 Feb 2024, 00.40
12-year-old IM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus won the 1st Jeddah Festival Young Masters with 6.5/9 points and earned his second GM norm! The 4th placed IM Andy Woodward even achieved his final GM norm and is set to become the youngest currently active Grandmaster at the age of 13.

31 Jan 2024, 01.00
The final of the Antichess World Championship will begin in 30 minutes! Who is going to be the new champion: @TheUnknownGuyReborn or @llIVIll? Watch the games live with commentary by @firebatprime.

30 Jan 2024, 14.00
The announced qualification paths for the FIDE Candidates 2026: There will be 3 spots from the World Cup, 2 from the Grand Swiss, 2 from the Circuit and 1 for the highest rated player, which will be determined by the 6-month average instead of the current rating to avoid situations like in December.

30 Jan 2024, 00.50
You can now subscribe to broadcasts! Simply enable the toggle on the tournament page and you will be notified when the next round starts.

29 Jan 2024, 01.40
The Tata Steel 2024 is over: GM Wei Yi has won the Masters in a 4-player tiebreak and is now ranked #9 in the world! GM Leon Luke Mendonca is the Challengers winner and will play in the Masters next year, while IM Arthur Pijpers advances to the Challengers 2025 as the winner of the Amateurs section.

28 Jan 2024, 18.25
The final round of the Tata Steel Masters is underway, but we might see more games today: GMs Vidit, Giri, Gukesh, Abdusattorov & Wei Yi are currently tied for 1st place, and if two or more players are still tied for 1st place after the round, the winner will be determined in blitz tiebreaker games.

28 Jan 2024, 04.25
Congratulations to @RebeccaHarris for winning the January Titled Arena with 141 points and a 50% berserk rate, just ahead of @junglebook1 in 2nd place and @mutdpro finishing 3rd!

27 Jan 2024, 21.00
Join our Titled Arena Warm-up starting in 3 hours and get the chance to face some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena.

27 Jan 2024, 00.55
Broadcast multi-board evaluation bars can now be easily turned on and off by toggling the new checkbox.

25 Jan 2024, 23.30
Final rest day of the Tata Steel Masters: With 3 rounds and possible tie-breaks to play, GMs Abdusattorov & Gukesh are in 1st place, 0.5 points ahead of GMs Giri & Praggnanandhaa. In the Challengers section, GM Maurizzi is on a 3-game winning streak and the sole leader, 1 point ahead of GM Mendonca.

25 Jan 2024, 01.05
GM Ian Nepomniachtchi wins against GM Ding Liren in round 10 of the Tata Steel Masters and gets his revenge for the World Championship match in their second classical game since then. Their first game in the Superbet Chess Classic ended in a draw.

24 Jan 2024, 00.25
Congratulations to @papasi and the PAPASIonates team for winning the first ever Streamers Battle with prizes!

22 Jan 2024, 23.35
Second rest day of the Tata Steel Masters: GMs Gukesh D, Anish Giri & Alireza Firouzja are tied for 1st place with 5 points after 8 of 13 rounds played. The Challengers section is led by GM Marc'Andria Maurizzi with 5.5/8 points. No rest day, however, in the Amateurs section led by IM Pijpers.

22 Jan 2024, 00.45
The January week of Variant Shield Arenas has started with the Chess960 Arena! The winner keeps the unique trophy for one month and must defend it in the next tournament.

20 Jan 2024, 22.30
The third and final set of the Crazyhouse World Cup Grand Final between NM blitzbullet, who leads 21-19, and FM calcu_later will start in 30 minutes. Tune in for live commentary and find out who will win! (Twitch)

20 Jan 2024, 16.00
Did you know that desktop users can press the ? key on pages with a board to show all available keyboard shortcuts?

20 Jan 2024, 04.00
IM Eline Roebers achieved her next high rated win in the Tata Steel Challengers against number 2 seeded GM Mustafa Yilmaz, following her victory over top seeded GM Hans Niemann yesterday! The Tata Steel Masters is still led by GM Anish Giri with 4.5 points after 6 of 13 rounds played.

19 Jan 2024, 05.00
GM Ju Wenjun defeated GM Alireza Firouzja in round 5 of the Tata Steels Masters, while IM Eline Roebers beat GM Hans Niemann in the Challengers section. Both players achieved the highest rated wins of their careers today!

19 Jan 2024, 00.15
On the 22nd, the next Streamers Battle will be held, where streamers and their communities will compete against each other in a 5+0 team arena! For the first time ever, there will be prizes!

18 Jan 2024, 00.05
Rest day in the Tata Steel Masters: 4 rounds have been played and GM Giri is leading with 3.5 points. Yesterday we saw GM Praggnanandhaa defeat reigning World Champion Ding Liren, overtaking GM Anand as India's highest ranked player in the live ratings! The event continues tomorrow with round 5.

17 Jan 2024, 21.00
The Yearly Chess960 Arena starts in 3 hours! Get ready for 5 hours of 3+0 with randomized starting positions.

16 Jan 2024, 10.00
Our December Standard and Variants databases are available for download, containing more than 98 million games combined. This brings the total number of games available for 2023 to 1,197,099,646!

15 Jan 2024, 23.00
Join us and thousands of players in our 4 hours long Yearly Bullet Arena, starting in one hour!

15 Jan 2024, 04.55
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk is the winner of both the European Women's Blitz and Rapid Championships, defeating GM Anna Ushenina in the final and deciding game for the Rapid title.

14 Jan 2024, 21.50
We had an incredible 2023 together! All the great innovations and successes of the past year are summarised in our end of year review blog.

14 Jan 2024, 05.20
Lichess has been the target of several DDoS attacks within the past hour. We apologize for any connection issues and problems that may have affected our players. We are working on minimizing the impact.

14 Jan 2024, 02.10
GM Magnus Carlsen has officially withdrawn from the 2024 Candidates Tournament. His spot goes to GM Nijat Abasov, who joins GMs Nepomniachtchi, Praggnanandhaa, Caruana, Vidit, Nakamura, Gukesh and Firouzja.

13 Jan 2024, 20.50
World Champion Ding Liren makes his comeback to classical chess at the Tata Steel Masters, facing top players like Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun, GM Anish Giri and GM Gukesh D. Follow the tournament with our new multiboard view Stockfish analysis! Press "L" to enable it. (Mastodon)

12 Jan 2024, 20.20
The European Women's Rapid & Blitz Championships have started! Former World Champions like GM Alexandra Kosteniuk and other well-known players such as GM Pia Cramling are competing for the titles of European Rapid and Blitz Champions, so don’t miss out on the action.

12 Jan 2024, 10.07
Congratulations @ChessStrawberry2020 for winning the Game of the Month December contest!

11 Jan 2024, 07.15
Have you ever tried the 404 game aka Chess Pursuit? Keep your king moving forward without stepping into check.

11 Jan 2024, 01.00
4 hours left in the Blitz Shield Arena! The winner gets a unique trophy and must defend it next month.

8 Jan 2024, 00.30
All our charts are now powered by Chart.js, a charting library that's open source (like Lichess). It is used on rating charts, analysis graphs, the lag gauge, and more. Previously, we were reluctantly using a closed source library. Many thanks to @ItsGam3Tyme for this great contribution!

7 Jan 2024, 22.48
NM @blitzbullet leads 12-8 against FM @calcu_later in the Crazyhouse World Cup Grand Final! The second of three sets has just started and is streamed live right now!

7 Jan 2024, 08.15
Just one week before his much anticipated return to classical OTB chess at the Tata Steel Masters 2024, reigning World Champion GM Ding Liren is currently playing in the first China Chess King rapid tournament and needs to defeat GM Wang Hao to advance to the final.

7 Jan 2024, 04.45
For those missing the blindfold mode setting: It has been moved to the board menu on game and puzzle pages.

6 Jan 2024, 23.10
Check out our updated changelog to see what the developers and many community contributors have been working on over the past month!

5 Jan 2024, 16.00
We recently added 28 new background themes to customize your experience! Access them from the gallery by clicking on your username in the top right corner -> Background -> Picture.

4 Jan 2024, 19.30
The Lichess4545 League celebrates 37 successful seasons of weekly classical 45+45 games with over 400 active players, in the faster-paced 15+15 Season 38 Kick-Off Arena on January 6th.

3 Jan 2024, 17.20
With the new year comes new FIDE title regulations. The previously announced FIDE rating changes now have a confirmed effective date of March 1st and will apply to Standard, Rapid and Blitz ratings. The rating changes aim to compress FIDE ratings. This incudes changing the rating floor from 1000 to 1400 and a one time adjustment of players rated under 2000.

1 Jan 2024, 23.10
Our Game of the Month December Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in December 2023 until January 5th!

1 Jan 2024, 02.45
FIDE confirmed that GM Alireza Firouzja and GM Koneru Humpy take the final rating spots for the Candidates 2024 and Women's Candidates 2024 respectively. GM Gukesh D joins the field as the runner-up in the FIDE Circuit, since top-ranked GM Fabiano Caruana had already qualified via the World Cup.

30 Des 2023, 21.50
GM Magnus Carlsen is the FIDE World Blitz Champion 2023, clinching both the World Rapid & Blitz titles as he did last year! GM Valentina Gunina won the Women's World Blitz Championship for the second time after 2012, half a point ahead of GM Alexandra Kosteniuk.

30 Des 2023, 19.00
Congratulations to @Ragehunter for winning the 2023 Winter Marathon and thanks to all 25,000+ players who participated!

29 Des 2023, 19.45
Following GM Alireza Firouzja's 7/7 victory in the Open de Rouen, with notable wins over GM Li Min Peng and GM Gata Kamsky, he has overtaken GM Wesley So in the live ratings for the Candidates rating spot, whether FIDE decides to rate the games of his Race to Candidates Matches or not.

29 Des 2023, 17.20
The FIDE World Blitz Championships 2023 have begun! GM Magnus Carlsen is aiming for the double after his victory in the World Rapid Championship yesterday. IM Bibisara Assaubayeva has the chance to make history by becoming the Women's World Blitz Champion for the third time in a row!

29 Des 2023, 06.00
Join the 2023 Winter Marathon for 24 hours of 3+0 Blitz and be part of the biggest chess tournament in history! The top 500 players will get a unique trophy!

28 Des 2023, 23.08
GM Magnus Carlsen has won the FIDE World Rapid Championship 2023 for a record fifth time, undefeated with 10/13 points! The FIDE Women's World Rapid Championship 2023 was decided in the 4th tie-break game: IM Anastasia Bodnaruk defeated former champion GM Humpy Koneru and became the first non-GM to win the title!

27 Des 2023, 22.11
Get ready, variant players! The Antichess Great Christmas Arena, organized by the antichess.org team, with a €190 prize fund & the chance to win one of 30 Patron Wing gifts, starts at 17:00 UTC. Crazyhouse fans can still register for the 1st Annual Crazyhouse Grand Swiss by @h8kurei until January 1st.

26 Des 2023, 22.25
In the final days of 2023, GM Alireza Firouzja continues his race to overtake GM Wesley So for the Candidates rating spot at the Open de Rouen. Meanwhile, FIDE has approved changes to the tournament registration procedure, stating that tournaments involving 2700+ rated players must be registered 30 days in advance.

26 Des 2023, 18.22
The 2023 FIDE World Rapid Championships have started! Reigning champion GM Magnus Carlsen tries to win the title for the fifth time, while GM Tan Zhongyi wants to defend hers in the women's section.

25 Des 2023, 17.00
A successful month for women in chess: IM Carissa Yip earned her first GM norm as the new North American Junior U20 Open champion & 8-year-old WCM Bodhana Sivanandan made history by winning the women's prize at the European Blitz Championship, defeating IM D'Costa and drawing with GM Nevednichy.

24 Des 2023, 17.00
The 400th edition of the Lichess Bundesliga starts tonight: Let's celebrate together!

23 Des 2023, 21.15
Join the Christmas Arena by @agadmator with prizes worth more than $20,000 starting today at 17:00 UTC.

23 Des 2023, 01.05
GM Alireza Firouzja has drawn his last game with GM Sergey Fedorchuk and is now 1.3 rating points behind GM Wesley So for the final Candidates spot.

22 Des 2023, 22.23
The Stafford Gambit is (in)famously packed with traps. Check out @Avetik_ChessMood's instructive blog and learn how to refute them.

22 Des 2023, 02.51
With a victory over GM Fedorchuk, GM Alireza Firouzja moves past GM Wesley So on the live rating lists and also into the last qualification spot for the 2024 Candidates Tournament.

22 Des 2023, 00.25
Chess24 announced that they will shut down their website and apps on January 31, 2024.

21 Des 2023, 19.30
Gukesh has won the Chennai Grand Masters and is now ahead of Giri on the FIDE Circuit path to the 2024 Candidates Tournament. The next stages, i.e. the World Rapid & Blitz Championships, will be decisive.

21 Des 2023, 02.30
FIDE's General Assembly has agreed to remove the presidential two-term limit, allowing current FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich to run for a third term in 2026. Dvorkovich had introduced the two-term limit as part of promised reforms after his first election in 2018.

20 Des 2023, 17.30
Our cloud evaluations of over 14 million chess positions are now available for download!

19 Des 2023, 21.35
FIDE has announced an investigation into Firouzja's Race to Candidates mini-match series, clarifying that they "reserve the right not to rate a specific tournament" and will address similar occurrences.

19 Des 2023, 18.45
Our Puzzle Database is featured in a preprint about supervising stronger LLMs with weaker ones, authored by OpenAI's Ilya Sutskever and his team.

19 Des 2023, 00.30
We have removed CLOUD evals for all variants to make way for positions analyzed by the new Fairy-Stockfish browser engine. Thanks to the Fairy-Stockfish contributors, dedicated NNUEs are available for all Lichess variants.

18 Des 2023, 19.30
Leinier Domínguez Perez has withdrawn from Sunway Sitges (and the Candidates race) after 5 rounds and a 4.7 Elo loss. The tournament leader is Dominik Horvath with an impressive 5/5, half a point ahead of a group of 6 players.

18 Des 2023, 14.45
The chat messages of broadcast hosts are now highlighted.

18 Des 2023, 14.05
Congratulations to David Navara on winning the European Blitz Championship! It was a pleasure to have him annotate 4 games of the 2023 World Championship Match, and it is an even greater pleasure to see him win such a prestigious tournament.

18 Des 2023, 07.00
Magnus Carlsen withdrew from last year's Sinquefield Cup following his defeat to Hans Niemann. He has now been cleared by FIDE, but is fined €10,000 for "withdrawing from a tournament without a valid reason or informing the tournament arbiter".

17 Des 2023, 03.00
We have played 5,000,000,000 rated games! You can download them all from the public database.
Thanks to everyone for playing with us!

16 Des 2023, 02.10
India's strongest classical chess tournament in history has started! Gukesh, Erigaisi and Maghsoodloo are playing for spots in the FIDE Candidates 2024 and we will broadcast all rounds, every day until December 21st.

14 Des 2023, 23.15
After Magnus Carlsen withdrew from last year's Sinquefield Cup following his defeat to Hans Niemann, he has been cleared by the FIDE Ethics & Disciplinary Commission of three charges, but fined €10,000 for "withdrawing from a tournament without a valid reason or informing the tournament arbiter".

14 Des 2023, 19.50
Players such as David Navara, Vasyl Ivanchuk and Baadur Jobava will be competing today and tomorrow in the European Rapid Championship 2023.

14 Des 2023, 19.50
16-year-old FM Shubh Jayesh Laddha with a minor upset in Round 2 of the London Chess Classic! He managed to comfortably draw against GM Leinier Domínguez, who is now 4.6 Elo points behind Wesley So on the rating path to the Candidates 2024.

14 Des 2023, 00.35
We are looking for volunteers to join the Lichess Broadcast Team! This is the team that creates and maintains the live broadcast pages for OTB events. If you're interested, please send a PM to @NoJoke. Learn more about what the Broadcast Team does here and head over to our Contribute page for many more ways you can help Lichess.

13 Des 2023, 22.00
Check out these useful Livestream Scoreboards by @SergioGlorias if you're a streamer and tired of manually entering your on-screen Win/Draw/Loss scores!

13 Des 2023, 22.00
Round 1 of the Sunway Sitges is over and Leinier Domínguez is now only 0.4 Elo points behind Wesley So! Will we see another win for Domínguez today or an upset by 16-year-old FM Shubh Jayesh Laddha? Find out in our broadcast!

12 Des 2023, 21.55
The Sunway Sitges Festival 2023 starts today! Top seed Leinier Domínguez is fighting for a place in the FIDE Candidates 2024 and needs to gain at least 1.2 Elo points to catch Wesley So in the live ratings.

12 Des 2023, 02.50
After 9 rounds of Rapid and 18 rounds of Blitz, Vidit has won the Vugar Gashimov Memorial 2023 by just half a point!

12 Des 2023, 02.50
Congrats to @FC7PLAY for winning the Lichess Game of the Month November 2023! @FC7PLAY courageously sacrificed a knight in the opening and went on to set a fire on board! A blog post with an analysis by our team will follow soon.

11 Des 2023, 21.10
First of countless Indian players to achieve the Grandmaster title, first and sole Indian player to become World Chess Champion: Happy Birthday, Vishy Anand!

11 Des 2023, 21.10
Michael Adams has won the 2023 London Chess Classic with 6/9 points and a performance rating of 2770! Play continues today in the 9th ProBiz Cup side event.

10 Des 2023, 21.00
With undefeated Michael Adams still leading in the London Chess Classic, only England's youngest International Master, Shreyas Royal, can stop him today.

10 Des 2023, 20.00
Congratulations to @BenjaminBokTwitch for winning yesterday's Chess960 Titled Arena in a very close finish!

10 Des 2023, 19.00
We will keep you up to date with everything happening on Lichess and in the chess world. Stay tuned for a lot more, very soon!

9 Des 2023, 21.10
On February 3rd and 4th 2024, the Kasparov Chess Foundation University Cup will take place on Lichess for the fourth year running! The winning team will receive online training with Garry Kasparov, see here for registration and more information.

9 Des 2023, 21.10
Two rounds to go in the London Chess Classic and 52-year old Michael Adams, who hasn't lost a single game against players like Gukesh and Niemann, is still in first place with a performance rating of 2835!

8 Des 2023, 22.50
Day 1 of the Gashimov Memorial is over and Nijat Abasov takes the lead with two wins and one draw. Watch the next 3 rounds of rapid chess tomorrow in our live broadcast.

8 Des 2023, 22.50
Our changelog has been updated for December, thanks @ttrv!

8 Des 2023, 22.50
With the help of 15 first-time contributors, we saw a record 167 GitHub pull requests last month. Thanks to everyone who is helping to make Lichess even better!

8 Des 2023, 22.50
The tooltip country flags when hovering over a username are back.

8 Des 2023, 22.50
You can now customise the appearance of your team by selecting a flair in the team settings.

8 Des 2023, 22.50
Check out this instructive Caro-Kann study by @NoseKnowsAll, explaining 6 key variations, aimed at players rated below 2000 on Lichess.

7 Des 2023, 18.30
We have updated the analysis engine to the latest version: Stockfish 16! In the new engine settings menu you can choose between the 40MB, the lighter 7MB and legacy versions. Thanks to the Stockfish team!

7 Des 2023, 18.30
We have added Lichess Flairs! Choose one of over 3000 emojis & other images and set it as your flair! Visible on your profile, in the forums, spectator chats and more places. If you don't like this new customization feature, you can turn it off.