
Announcing the ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix

Beating the Accelerated London

The Top Players of the Future

UPDATE - How more than 50,000 children in Germany learn and train chess

Tournament Review: Graz Open 2025

Standard or 960 start position for 1 side vs a random position with a even eval.

2025 Women's Top 25 Rankings: Fear Goryachkina!

Should You Play Up?

Classical Online Tournaments
Open tournaments
More »Daily Chess960 | 1h 30m | 185 | |
Daily King of the Hill | 1h | ||
≤1300 Blitz | 57m | 25 | |
Hourly HyperBullet | 27m | ||
Hourly Atomic | 57m | ||
≤1700 Bullet | 27m | 17 | |
Hourly Horde | 57m | ||
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 46 | |
≤2000 Rapid | 57m | 65 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 75 | |
≤1500 SuperBlitz | 57m | 18 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 44 | |
King's Indian Defense Rapid | 1h 57m | 19 |

Congrats @jan6363 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month February 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

The European Championship, featuring GMs Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Alexey Sarana, David Navara and more, as well as the 4th FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournament in Nicosia, with GMs Aleksandra Goryachkina, Anna Muzychuk, and Zhu Jiner among others, are both about to start at 13:00 UTC! Follow all the games in our broadcasts.

The second ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th March at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register now until 17th March.

Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 17th March at 16:00 UTC and 14th April at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!


Happy International Women's Day! Let's celebrate together in our thematic Women's Day Arena today at 14:00 UTC, with all games starting from a position of GM Judit Polgár's famous win against GM Vishy Anand in 1999.

The FIDE World Junior Chess Championships 2025 ended after 11 rounds in Petrovac, Montenegro: GM Pranav V is the new World Junior Chess Champion and WIM Anna Shukhman, who was on an impressive 5-game winning streak in the last rounds, is the new World Junior Girls Chess Champion!