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We crown the Lichess4545 Season 42 Champions!

Chess Broke My Heart... Here’s Why I Still Can’t Quit

King Marches Inflicted Upon Me

Beat your friends at my new mate-in-2 contest

David's Chess Journey - Installment 63

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Lichess Game of the Month: December '24

Praggnanandhaa's Brilliant Tactic at Tata Steel!!
Open tournaments
More »Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 334 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 67 | |
Hourly Crazyhouse | 27m | 40 | |
≤1300 Bullet | 27m | 54 | |
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 247 | |
≤2000 Blitz | 57m | 10 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | ||
Hourly HyperBullet | 27m | ||
Hourly Blitz | 57m | ||
≤1500 Bullet | 27m | ||
≤1300 SuperBlitz | 57m | ||
≤1700 Rapid | 57m | 21 |

Join us and thousands of players for 5 hours of 3+0 Blitz in our Yearly SuperBlitz Arena, starting at 17:00 UTC.

Try our latest puzzle theme addition: the Vuković Mate. Many thanks again to @dirkster99 for helping to implement another new puzzle theme!

Lichess had 31 people contribute code across 15 repositories in January! Check out what's changed in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum thread.

The next high profile Chess960 event is underway! The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 has started in Weissenhaus, Germany. Follow all the games in our broadcast, featuring the reigning Fischer Random World Champion Hikaru Nakamura and GMs such as Gukesh D, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and others.

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

Our January 2025 free and open databases are now available for download. Together we played over 100,000,000 rated standard games last month and Antichess crossed 30 million rated games in total!

Our February 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, starts at 16:00 UTC! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.