The FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2025 will take place from 26 to 30 December! The best in the world, including GM Magnus Carlsen in the Open and GM Ju Wenjun in the Women's event, will compete for the World Championship titles and a prize fund of over €1 million. Read our preview, follow the games in our broadcasts, and check out our YouTube channel for interviews with the players on-site by IM Laura Unuk.

If you are playing with an eBoard on Lichess, please note that the board software must use our official Board API. Otherwise, your account may be banned for violating our Fair Play rules. Read more about using eBoards with Lichess and how to tell if you're not using our official API here.

Did you know that you gain more and lose fewer rating points for results with the black pieces on Lichess? To account for White's first-move advantage, a standard game between, for example, a 1500-rated player with White and a 1511-rated player with Black is treated as a balanced game.

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!