HollowLeafChess Web Programming: Part Nine: Chessground
NM Chess-NetworkCarlsen and Nepomniachtchi share Blitz Chess Champion Title in historic finale
ZhrakosThe Chessboard of Life: When Each Move Feels Like Losing
IM hari2209Mastering the Isolated Queen Pawn (IQP): An In-Depth Guide
WGM mlatbHow to Make Progress Based on Your Rating
CyberShredderWorld Rapid and Blitz being absolute meme
NM HanSchutBroadcasts and Puzzle Streak now available in the Lichess iOS beta app
McieThe Elegant Cross Pin
NM ZugAddictI made a YouTube channel for Lichess TV Highlights
Open tournaments
More »| ≤2000 Bullet | 27m | 172 | |
| Hourly Crazyhouse | 27m | 44 | |
| Hourly Bullet | 27m | 228 | |
| Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 85 | |
| HyperBullet Shield | 4h | 97 |
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 20th January at 16:00 UTC and 17th February at 16:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!
Experimental French language support has been added to Voice Recognition! Select Français in the new language option in the voice settings gear menu to try it out and leave your feedback in the forum.
Our January 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.
Our December 2024 free and open databases are now available for download, bringing the total number of rated games to over 6.2 billion in standard chess and 125 million across variants!
Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Blitz Titled Arena January! IM Suyarov Mukhammadzokhid took 2nd place, ahead of GM José Martínez Alcántara in 3rd place.
Our January 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!
In December, Lichess had 41 people who contributed code across 17 of our repos! See what was worked on in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum thread.
