The 10th and final ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th November at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.

Researchers at Google DeepMind used our free puzzle database and reinforcement learning to train a model to generate creative chess puzzles. Read more on this in the blog by Tom Zahavy from the DeepMind discovery team and try to solve the puzzles yourself in the Lichess study!

GM Frederik Svane eliminated World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in Round 3 of the FIDE World Cup 2025, as GM Anish Giri and GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov are also out of the tournament. Read our recap, check out our interviews on YouTube, and watch all the games of Round 4 in our broadcast at 09:45 UTC.

Broadcast player search is now available on our new mobile app! Find your favourite player's game with the search bar on top of the boards page. Watch our YouTube video to see how it works!

Thank you to all 12,205 players who joined our Memorial Arena for GM Daniel Naroditsky. Today would have been Danya's 30th birthday. We will remember him for his passion and inspiration, as one of the brightest advocates for chess.

Congratulations to GM Sergei Zhigalko for winning our Blitz Titled Arena November 2025, ahead of IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, IM Reza Mahdavi, GM Brandon Jacobson, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk!

Our November 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts in less than two hours at 19:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.