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Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 14 April at 15:00 UTC and 12 May at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, see here.
Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February & GM Toms Kantāns, and today's guest WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea, for Game 7 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!
We have now played over 10,000,000,000 casual and rated games together! Thank you for playing on Lichess. Download all rated standard and variant games from our free and open database.
IM Teodora Injac is the new European Women's Chess Champion! After losing the first game, she went on a 9-game winning streak and only drew her last game, when it was clear that she will be the new champion. Injac and the rest of the top 10 players have qualified for the Women's Chess World Cup 2025.
The Women's World Championship continues on 13 April at 07:00 UTC in Chongqing, China - the hometown of challenger GM Tan Zhongyi. In the meantime, read our Game 6 recap blog, again with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea, who will also join our live stream on YouTube and Twitch for Games 7 and 8!
See what our developers and community contributors have been working on over the past month in our updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum topic.
Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with today's commentators GM Rasmus Svane and GM Toms Kantāns for Game 6 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!
