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Get ready for our next Streamer Arenas on and , 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.
Our Game of the Month May Contest is still underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in May 2026 until ! The winner will be announced on , followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
GM Felix Blohberger and GM David Navara play a classical OTB match from June 8 to 13, starting every day at ! Tune in now for live commentary by GM Alex Colovic and IM Kostya Kavutskiy and follow the games in our broadcast.
Congratulations to IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján for winning our Chess960 Titled Arena June 2026, ahead of IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, FM Dmitry Goltsev, GM @handofprince, and FM Cristian Arrieta Hernández!
Our Chess960 3+2 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Chess960 Titled Arena at .
Kong Xiangrui won the 2026 Asian Individual Chess Championship, becoming the first IM to ever win the tournament and gaining the GM title directly! In the women's section, Savitha Shri B won on tiebreaks with a score of 7.5/9.
Praggnanandhaa R won Norway Chess 2026 after 4 classical wins in a row to score 18 points, while Bibisara Assaubayeva secured victory in the women's section a round in advance with a score of 16.5.
Open tournaments
More »| ≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 145 | |
| Hourly Antichess | 27m | 28 | |
| Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 161 | |
| Hourly Three-check | 57m | 14 | |
| Hourly HyperBullet | 27m | 31 | |
| Hourly Crazyhouse | 57m | 14 | |
| Hourly Blitz | 57m | 83 | |
| Hourly King of the Hill | 57m | ||
| ≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 57 | |
| Hourly Horde | 57m | ||
| Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 88 | |
| Hourly Bullet | 27m | 117 | |
| ≤1300 Bullet | 27m | 22 | |
| ≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 71 | |
| Hourly UltraBullet | 27m |