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Women’s World Championship 2025Shanghai | Game 6 • in 10 minutes Eastern Blitz Arena811 players • Playing now Dutch Defense Rapid Arena138 players • Playing now

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Game 1: Ju Wenjun vs Tan Zhongyi, FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025

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5 hours ago

GM Ju Wenjun won a one-sided Game 5 of the Women's World Championship 2025 against GM Tan Zhongyi to take the match lead with 3-2! Read our recap blog and replay the game with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea.

23 hours ago

Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February & GM Toms Kantāns, and today's guest GM Felix Blohberger, for Game 5 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!

2 days ago

Today, we reached the milestone of 5,000,000 puzzles! It took more than 100 years of CPU time to generate them from games played on Lichess. You can download all our puzzles for free and use them in your own projects without asking for permission.

2 days ago

Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and GM Toms Kantāns for Game 4 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!

3 days ago

GM Ju Wenjun bounced back after the first rest day with a win over GM Tan Zhongyi to level the score! We summarised what happened in our recap blog, again with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea.

3 days ago

Join us now on YouTube or Twitch with our commentators WIM Jesse February, GM Toms Kantāns, and GM Srinath Narayanan for Game 3 of the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025!