Lichess Game of the Month: August '24
Lichess2024 Budapest Olympiad Round 11: India Achieves Double Gold
CoatsiChessFortun£ Friday$ September Edition Prize Winners
checkravenLucky boy!
CM HGaborEffective training methods - doing tactics
D2D4C2C4Why Opening Statistics Are Wrong
NoseKnowsAllIntroducing a universal rating converter for 2024
TheOnoZoneChess Flavoured Peanut Butter
GM NoelStuderExceptional results - simple training
Leaderboard
More »GM Wafwhij02 | 3324 | |
GM aspiringstar | 2976 | |
GM DrVitman | 2916 | |
IM Unicorn7Love | 2726 | |
anonymousblitz | 2702 | |
catask | 2979 | |
GM Zhigalko_Sergei | 2841 | |
RapidShooter | 2644 | |
catask | 2638 | |
TheUnknownGuyReborn | 2477 | |
jasos12 | 2510 | |
Schachtrainer_76 | 2746 | |
NM QueenEatingDragon | 2516 |
Tournament winners
More »Open tournaments
More »Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 520 | |
Hourly Antichess | 57m | 90 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 533 | |
Hourly Racing Kings | 57m | 28 | |
≤1500 Blitz | 57m | 176 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 302 | |
≤1700 SuperBlitz | 57m | 258 | |
≤1300 Rapid | 57m | 95 | |
≤2000 Bullet | 27m | ||
Hourly Bullet | 27m | ||
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | ||
Monthly Rapid | 5h | 52 |
Our Game of the Month September Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in September 2024 until 5 October! The winner will be announced on 14 October, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
Congratulations to GM Nihal Sarin for winning our Titled Arena September 2024! GM Andrew Tang took 2nd place and GM Daniel Naroditsky came in 3rd.
Our September 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 2 hours at 16:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!
The new season of the German Bundesliga has started, with GMs Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh D, Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi and many more expected to play in the coming rounds. Follow each round in our broadcast.
The FIDE General Assembly voted against lifting sanctions on the Russian and Belarusian federations. Instead, it voted to consider lifting sanctions only on players with disabilities and children under 12. Yolander Persaud is the new chairperson of FIDE's Ethics & Disciplinary Commission after a chaotic election, as reported on Chessdom.
Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning the Streamers Battle September 2024! Congrats also to runner-up Полина Янученко1, to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for taking 3rd place, and to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 2,019 registered players!
India has won both the Open and Women's events of the 45th Chess Olympiad! Watch our interview on Instagram with gold medallist and new world number 3, GM Arjun Erigaisi, after the final round.