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The Greek Gift sacrifice: good sacrifices and bad sacrifices

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Rome, Pizza & a Wild Ride in Serie A1

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

Beating the Accelerated London

Tournament Review: Cannes Open 2025

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Brand New Gambit vs. The Caro-Kann!
Open tournaments
More »Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 246 | |
Daily Racing Kings | 1h | ||
Hourly Chess960 | 57m | ||
Hourly HyperBullet | 27m | ||
Hourly Antichess | 57m | ||
≤1700 SuperBlitz | 57m | 21 | |
Hourly Three-check | 27m | ||
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 30 | |
≤2000 Bullet | 27m | 27 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 25 | |
≤1500 Blitz | 57m | 10 | |
≤1300 Rapid | 57m | 13 | |
Catalan Opening Bullet | 27m | ||
Titled Arena March '25 | 2h | 104 |

Enter the World of Solving Magic with six-time World Chess Solving Champion GM Kacper Piorun! The Lichess study introduces composed problems used in chess solving competitions. The course is aimed at advanced players.

Congratulations to team Moon Club by @MoonWarrior1 for also winning the second ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers IM Jakub Půlpán, @BetterCollSoul, @DrMystic, IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, @Aghapourchess100 and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and players!

GM Anna Muzychuk leads the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Nicosia on the first rest day with 4/5 points, ahead of GMs Zhu Jiner and Aleksandra Goryachkina. Watch more high-level chess now in the European Championship 2025, where GM Daniil Yuffa is the only player to have won every game after 5 rounds!

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.