
Lichess Game of the Month: February '25

2025 Women's World Chess Championship Game 5: Tan’s Opening Surprise Backfires

2025 Women's World Chess Championship Game 4: Neck and Neck

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

The Funny Side of Chess

Avoid the Biggest Chess Pain

Quantifying the Control over Squares

You are not your rating

Books vs. Videos: The Battle for Your Chess Brain
Open tournaments
More »Eastern Bullet | 1h | 423 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 34 | |
≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 147 | |
Hourly Horde | 57m | 22 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 236 | |
≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 286 | |
Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 184 | |
≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 115 | |
Dutch Defense SuperBlitz | 57m | 103 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 11 | |
Hourly King of the Hill | 27m | ||
≤1300 Bullet | 27m | 11 |

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.

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!


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!

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.

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!

Congratulations to GM Jose Martínez Alcántara for winning our Chess960 Titled Arena! GM Vugar Rasulov took 2nd place, ahead of GM Frederik Svane in 3rd place.