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Open tournaments
More »Caro-Kann Defense Rapid | 1h 57m | 218 | |
Hourly Crazyhouse | 57m | 75 | |
Hourly Atomic | 57m | 92 | |
≤1500 SuperBlitz | 57m | 188 | |
Hourly Racing Kings | 57m | 38 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 745 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 397 | |
≤1300 Blitz | 57m | 112 | |
≤2000 Rapid | 57m | 410 | |
≤1700 Bullet | 27m | ||
Hourly Bullet | 27m | ||
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | ||
UltraBullet Shield | 3h | 233 |

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.

Three more rounds to play in the FIDE World Junior Championships: Sole leader GM Pranav V faces second-placed IM Aswath S in the Open, while tied leaders WFM Mariya Yakimova and WIM Yelyzaveta Hrebenshchykova meet in the Girls section. Follow all the games in our broadcasts, starting at 14:15 UTC!

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

Congratulations to GM Andrew Tang for winning our Blitz Titled Arena March in the final seconds! He finished just one point ahead of GM Brandon Jacobson in 2nd place, who was closely followed by GM @legendreturns in 3rd place.