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All the time in the world - but enough time to win?
Open tournaments
More »Daily Antichess | 1h | 80 | |
Hourly Chess960 | 57m | 72 | |
≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 137 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 39 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 353 | |
Hourly Three-check | 57m | 19 | |
≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 204 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 169 | |
Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 224 | |
≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 279 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 31 | |
≤1300 Bullet | 27m | 15 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 101 |

GM Vincent Keymer, who defeated GM Magnus Carlsen 1.5 to 0.5 in the semi-finals, will play GM Fabiano Caruana in the final of the Chess960 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus - starting tomorrow at 12:00 UTC. Watch all the remaining games in our broadcast.

Join us and thousands of players for 5 hours of 3+0 Blitz in our Yearly SuperBlitz Arena, starting at 17:00 UTC.

Try our latest puzzle theme addition: the Vuković Mate. Many thanks again to @dirkster99 for helping to implement another new puzzle theme!

Lichess had 31 people contribute code across 15 repositories in January! Check out what's changed in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum thread.

The next high profile Chess960 event is underway! The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 has started in Weissenhaus, Germany. Follow all the games in our broadcast, featuring the reigning Fischer Random World Champion Hikaru Nakamura and GMs such as Gukesh D, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and others.

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

Our January 2025 free and open databases are now available for download. Together we played over 100,000,000 rated standard games last month and Antichess crossed 30 million rated games in total!