GM Anna Muzychuk leads the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Nicosia on the first rest day with 4/5 points, ahead of GMs Zhu Jiner and Aleksandra Goryachkina. Watch more high-level chess now in the European Championship 2025, where GM Daniil Yuffa is the only player to have won every game after 5 rounds!

Congratulations to VEER SHAH & FRIENDS for winning our Streamers Battle March 2025! Congrats also to Moon Club for taking 2nd place, to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 3rd place, and to Полина Янученко1 for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 2,026 registered players!

Congrats @jan6363 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month February 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

The European Championship, featuring GMs Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Alexey Sarana, David Navara and more, as well as the 4th FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournament in Nicosia, with GMs Aleksandra Goryachkina, Anna Muzychuk, and Zhu Jiner among others, are both about to start at 13:00 UTC! Follow all the games in our broadcasts.

The second ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th March at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register now until 17th March.

Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 17th March at 16:00 UTC and 14th April at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!

The xkcd piece set is now available on Lichess: Select it from the Piece set option in your account menu. Many thanks to detroyejr for recreating and contributing it!