
Don't forget about Backward Moves!

Where did the Word "Chess" Come From?

The Greek Gift sacrifice: good sacrifices and bad sacrifices

TMC Cash League Round 4 Overview

Should You Play Up?

Lichess Game of the Month: January '25

4NCL Round 4

2025 Women's Top 25 Rankings: Fear Goryachkina!

Comparing the Rise of 3 Generations of Chess Prodigies
Open tournaments
More »Eastern Bullet | 1h | 314 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 23 | |
≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 139 | |
Hourly Horde | 57m | 12 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 178 | |
≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 227 | |
Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 149 | |
≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 80 | |
Philidor Defense SuperBlitz | 57m | 82 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | ||
≤1300 Bullet | 27m | ||
Yearly Blitz | 6h | 736 |

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!


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.

The FIDE World Junior Chess Championships 2025 ended after 11 rounds in Petrovac, Montenegro: GM Pranav V is the new World Junior Chess Champion and WIM Anna Shukhman, who was on an impressive 5-game winning streak in the last rounds, is the new World Junior Girls Chess Champion!

GM Aravindh Chithambaram won the Prague Festival Masters 2025 undefeated with 6/9 ahead of tied GMs Anish Giri, Wei Yi and R Praggnanandhaa one point behind. The Challengers section was decided in a tiebreak match, which GM Nodirbek Yakubboev won 1.5 to 0.5 against GM Jonas Buhl Bjerre.

See what our developers and community contributors have been working on over the past month in our updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum topic.

Three more rounds to play in the FIDE World Junior Championships: Sole leader GM Pranav V faces second-placed IM Aswath S in the Open, while tied leaders WFM Mariya Yakimova and WIM Yelyzaveta Hrebenshchykova meet in the Girls section. Follow all the games in our broadcasts, starting at 14:15 UTC!