All women players with a FIDE title are welcome to join the online qualifier for the WR Women’s Chess Tour 2026 Americas Leg! The first stage starts on 2026-05-20 22:00 UTC. Find out more in the announcement by WR Chess.

Congratulations to IM Anna M. Sargsyan for winning the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Asia Online Qualifier on Lichess and qualifying for the $40,000 over-the-board event in Tokyo, Japan! Sargsyan defeated WFM Shubhi Gupta in the finals, while IM Alua Nurman took 3rd place against WIM Pandey Srishti.

The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on 2026-05-20 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.

Get ready for our next Streamer Arenas on 2026-05-18 16:00 UTC and 2026-06-15 16:00 UTC, 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.

Faustino Oro achieved his third and final GM norm at the Sardinia World Chess Festival 2026, becoming the second-youngest grandmaster of all time at the age of 12 years, 6 months and 26 days! The record is still held by GM Abhimanyu Mishra, who was 2 months and 1 day younger than Oro.

Congratulations to IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján for winning our Blitz Titled Arena May 2026, ahead of GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, GM Christopher Yoo, and GM Artem Uskov!

Our May 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, 2026-05-09 18:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Blitz Titled Arena at 19:00 UTC.