Lichess had 31 people contribute code across 15 repositories in January! Check out what's changed in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum thread.

The next high profile Chess960 event is underway! The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 has started in Weissenhaus, Germany. Follow all the games in our broadcast, featuring the reigning Fischer Random World Champion Hikaru Nakamura and GMs such as Gukesh D, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and others.

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

Our January 2025 free and open databases are now available for download. Together we played over 100,000,000 rated standard games last month and Antichess crossed 30 million rated games in total!

Our February 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, starts at 16:00 UTC! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.

GM R Praggnanandhaa wins the Tata Steel Masters 2025! He defeated World Champion Gukesh D in the Blitz tiebreak, after both players lost their Classical games in the final round. GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen took 1st place in the Challengers section and qualifies for next year's Masters tournament.

Watch former World Champion Garry Kasparov commentate Round 6 of the Kasparov Chess Foundation University Cup now live on Twitch!