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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Our Yearly Classical Arena starts in 1 hour! Join us and thousands of players for 10 hours of 20+10 classical chess.
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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
Congrats @PrydunAndrii2004 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month April 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
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.
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.