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The $10,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Final is about to start at 20:00 UTC! More than 2,000 players have already signed up, including 54 grandmasters and 253 titled players in total. Choose your team and join the arena for two hours of 3+2 Blitz.

Join the Lotus Chess Grand Colosseum Arena by @agadmator for two hours of 2+0 Bullet with a total prize fund of $1,500, starting today at 16:30 UTC!

Your 2025 Lichess recap is ready! See a personalized look back at your chess activity this year.

Congratulations to GM Artem Uskov for winning our Bullet Titled Arena December 2025, ahead of GM Matthias Blübaum, GM Nihal Sarin, GM Haik Martirosyan, and IM Robert Piliposyan!

Our December 1+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 this year's final Bullet Titled Arena.

Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning our Streamer Arena December 2025! Congrats also to K2N_chess for taking 2nd place, to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for 3rd place, and to IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,825 registered players!

Due to an ongoing issue with our live streamer detection, streamers may not be detected as live, while offline streamers can falsely appear to be live. We have thus temporarily stopped displaying live streamers on our homepage. We are working on a fix and apologize for the inconvenience.