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Congratulations to FM Hamidreza Tahmasebi for winning our Blitz Titled Arena November 2026, ahead of IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, FM Dinçer Taşdöğen, GM Xue Haowen, and GM Saparmyrat Atabayev!
The Lichess Bundesliga, world's biggest online chess league, celebrates its 700th edition today after over 6 years - starting at !
GM Peter Svidler is now live for the final day of Lichess4545 Season 50! Tune in to Peter Svidler's live commentary on Twitch.
Our November 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, at ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Blitz Titled Arena at .
The final $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier takes place on at and is the last chance for Lichess streamer teams to qualify for the $10,000 Grand Final on . Read our full announcement and register your team now.
"We're a charity, we're a non-profit, so we're not trying to impress sponsors or investors or venture capitalists." — Our Director of Operations, Theo Wait, joined Greg Mustreader to discuss the online chess landscape, how we run Lichess behind the scenes, and much more! Watch the full episode on YouTube.
We've been collecting research publications using Lichess and just crossed 300 entries, with almost 100 from this year alone! We regularly publish data on our open database. Open source and open data are key for research, pushing the boundaries of human knowledge. Thank you to all the researchers!
