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IM wateenellende

Standard or 960 start position for 1 side vs a random position with a even eval.

GM Craze

Brand New Gambit vs. The Caro-Kann!

ebk1976

The Top Players of the Future

GM Volodar Murzin - World Rapid Champion 2024FM jeffforever

Interview with GM Volodar Murzin - World Rapid Champion 2024

FM CheckRaiseMate

Should You Play Up?

CkickyCheck

Beating the Accelerated London

GOAT + Catalan Model Game screenshotIM JJPL03

GOAT's Catalan - Classical Model Games

WFM fla2021

The Greek Gift sacrifice: good sacrifices and bad sacrifices

sphynx

Classical Online Tournaments

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!

Happy International Women's Day! Let's celebrate together in our thematic Women's Day Arena today at 14:00 UTC, with all games starting from a position of GM Judit Polgár's famous win against GM Vishy Anand in 1999.