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