Lichess Game of the Month: September '24
LichessFIDE Women’s Grand Prix Shymkent Round 4: Tan, Goryachkina, and Koneru Lead
ambronaThe Castle of Chess Vampires
Chessdad1979David's Chess Journey - Installment 48
jk_182What changed in Ding's play?
GyllenstiernaAnother Double Delusion
OnTheQueensideOctober Top 25 Women's Rankings: Divya to No. 6, & Hello Kashlinskaya!
WFM fla2021Sometimes, it's better not to castle too quickly! Here's why!
FM nikhildixitAnnouncing 1st FREE Tournament with 5000 INR prize fund
Open tournaments
More »Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 337 | |
Daily Racing Kings | 1h | 12 | |
Hourly Chess960 | 57m | 46 | |
Hourly Antichess | 57m | 49 | |
≤1700 SuperBlitz | 57m | 197 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 299 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 180 | |
≤1500 Blitz | 57m | 102 | |
≤1300 Rapid | 57m | 60 | |
≤2000 Bullet | 27m | 42 | |
Hourly Three-check | 27m | ||
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 36 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 10 |
At the age of 3 years, 8 months and 19 days, Anish Sarkar becomes the youngest FIDE rated player in the world, as reported by The Indian Express.
Our Game of the Month October Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in October 2024 until 5 November! The winner will be announced on 14 November, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
The second of six FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournaments starts at 10:00 UTC in Shymkent, Kazakhstan! Follow all the games in our broadcast until 8 November, as GMs Tan Zhongyi, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Koneru Humpy and others try to earn points for the WGP Series.
Congrats FM @Ragehunter, the clear winner of our 2024 Autumn Marathon, with a 61% win rate in 454 games, 359 points ahead of 2nd placed CM @Statham_13! Thanks to all 20,555 registered users who played a total of 219,733 games. The next Marathon will take place on 28th December.
The Novy Bor Chess Club, with GM Vidit Gujrathi on board 1, won the European Chess Club Cup 2024. Tajfun ŠK Ljubljana, led by GM Nana Dzagnidze, won the Women's section. GM Arjun Erigaisi, who earlier crossed the 2800 mark in the live ratings, couldn't stay above 2800 after two draws in the final games.
Congratulations to IM Toivo Keinänen for winning our Titled Arena October! He overtook eventual runner-up GM Sergei Zhigalko in the end, who was leading for a long time! GM Oleksandr Bortnyk took 3rd place.
Join our 2024 Autumn Marathon, starting at midnight UTC, for 24 hours of 2+1 bullet chess and be part of one of the biggest chess tournaments in history! The winner, top 10, top 50, top 100 and top 500 players will all get a unique trophy.