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More »Weekly Blitz | 3h | 1515 | |
Daily SuperBlitz | 1h 30m | 1569 | |
≤2000 Rapid | 57m | 159 | |
≤1300 Blitz | 57m | 33 | |
Hourly HyperBullet | 27m | 41 | |
Hourly Chess960 | 27m | 27 | |
≤1500 SuperBlitz | 57m | 28 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 27 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 114 | |
Hourly Three-check | 57m | 11 | |
≤1700 Bullet | 27m | 26 |

The fourth ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th May at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.

Congratulations to GM Andrew Tang for winning our Blitz Titled Arena May! GM Brandon Jacobson took 2nd place, ahead of IM Arash Tahbaz in 3rd place.

Join us now on Twitch for the final day of our MSF Charity Campaign with host @Toadofsky and play in the MSF Charity Finale arena! Thanks to everyone who donates and supports the fundraising campaign for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).

Our May 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.

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.

The final FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournament has started in Großlobming, Austria! Follow all the games in our broadcast until 15 May, as GMs Tan Zhongyi, Anna Muzychuk, Zhu Jiner and others try to collect their last points for the WGP Series.

Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 12 May at 15:00 UTC and 9 June at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, see here.