
Announcing the ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix

The Greek Gift sacrifice: good sacrifices and bad sacrifices

4NCL Round 4

Comparing the Rise of 3 Generations of Chess Prodigies

TMC Cash League Round 4 Overview

Out-Scandi the Scandi - Black won't know what hit them

Breaking Barriers one move at a time

Lichess Game of the Month: January '25

2025 Women's Top 25 Rankings: Fear Goryachkina!
Open tournaments
More »Weekly Classical | 5h | 562 | |
Yearly King of the Hill | 5h | 1019 | |
Daily SuperBlitz | 1h 30m | 1743 | |
Daily Blitz | 2h | 105 | |
Hourly Three-check | 57m | 14 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 41 | |
≤1500 SuperBlitz | 57m | 30 | |
≤1300 Blitz | 57m | 28 | |
≤1700 Bullet | 27m | 15 | |
Hourly Chess960 | 27m | ||
Hourly HyperBullet | 27m | 10 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 11 | |
≤2000 Rapid | 57m | 108 |

The second ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th March at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register now until 17th March.

Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 17th March at 16:00 UTC and 14th April at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!


Happy International Women's Day! Let's celebrate together in our thematic Women's Day Arena today at 14:00 UTC, with all games starting from a position of GM Judit Polgár's famous win against GM Vishy Anand in 1999.

The FIDE World Junior Chess Championships 2025 ended after 11 rounds in Petrovac, Montenegro: GM Pranav V is the new World Junior Chess Champion and WIM Anna Shukhman, who was on an impressive 5-game winning streak in the last rounds, is the new World Junior Girls Chess Champion!

GM Aravindh Chithambaram won the Prague Festival Masters 2025 undefeated with 6/9 ahead of tied GMs Anish Giri, Wei Yi and R Praggnanandhaa one point behind. The Challengers section was decided in a tiebreak match, which GM Nodirbek Yakubboev won 1.5 to 0.5 against GM Jonas Buhl Bjerre.

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.