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The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on 2026-03-20 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.

More new features and improvements were added to Lichess last month! See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum topic.

Get ready for our next Streamer Arenas on 2026-03-16 16:00 UTC and 2026-04-27 16:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, register now.

Congrats NM @visualdennis on winning our Women's Day 2026 Arena ahead of @Sergofanchik2026, @OM64, @Savateyev, and LM @Lance5500! Thank you to all 3,007 registered players who celebrated International Women's Day with us, playing 5,250 games and making 270,747 moves.

"Advanced Search" Status Update

All games starting from 1 December 2025 are now available for our "Advanced search" and we are experimenting with a different search backend to improve the feature. Games before 1 December might not be available yet, but we are continuing to backfill all game data and will update you again.

Happy International Women's Day! Let's celebrate together in our thematic Women's Day Arena at 16:00 UTC. All games will start from a position of the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship 2025 between GM Ju Wenjun and GM Tan Zhongyi, where Tan played a very rare opening idea.