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ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Finals

Dec 16, 2025ReyEnigma

7️⃣TRUQUITOS de mi ESCANDINAVA ENIGMÁTICA

Dec 10, 2025tolius

Antichess: 1. e3 Wins for White in #79

Dec 12, 2025JustAnotherLine44

Using Maia and Leela Chess Zero to Find Repertoire Gaps

Dec 7, 2025IM Fins

What I Learned from Spending 1,000+ Hours Writing an Opening Course

Dec 10, 2025GM ChessMindAI

100 games experiment (Part 1/5)

Dec 10, 2025NM VoicelessFeather

The Schematic of Threatening Opening Preparation

Open tournaments

Daily Bullet	1h	110
Hourly Atomic	57m	17
Hourly SuperBlitz	57m	63
Hourly Crazyhouse	57m
≤1500 Rapid	57m	79
Hourly King of the Hill	57m
Hourly Blitz	57m	36
Hourly Chess960	57m
≤1700 Blitz	57m	62
Hourly Horde	57m
Hourly Rapid	1h 57m	85
Hourly HyperBullet	27m
≤1300 Bullet	27m
≤2000 SuperBlitz	57m	60
Weekly Classical	5h	71

Join the Lotus Chess Grand Colosseum Arena by @agadmator for two hours of 2+0 Bullet with a total prize fund of $1,500, starting today at 16:30 UTC!

Your 2025 Lichess recap is ready! See a personalized look back at your chess activity this year.

Congratulations to GM Artem Uskov for winning our Bullet Titled Arena December 2025, ahead of GM Matthias Blübaum, GM Nihal Sarin, GM Haik Martirosyan, and IM Robert Piliposyan!

Our December 1+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 this year's final Bullet Titled Arena.

Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning our Streamer Arena December 2025! Congrats also to K2N_chess for taking 2nd place, to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for 3rd place, and to IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,825 registered players!

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