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Congrats GM @delta_horsey on winning the Lichess Game of the Month March 2025! Thank you all for your submissions!

Congratulations to team Saqochess & friends and fan club by FM Sargis A. Manukyan for winning the third ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers GM Mamikon Gharibyan, IM Reza Mahdavi, IM Samir Sahidi and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and players!

GM Humpy Koneru is the winner of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024/25 event in Pune, India! She is now 2nd in the overall GP standings behind GM Aleksandra Goryachkina. The top two will qualify for the next Women's Candidates Tournament. The final GP event starts on 6 May in Grosslobming, Austria.

Play now with our new Firi piece set! Select it from the Piece set option in your account menu. Many thanks to James Faure for contributing it! The piece set was originally designed for Shogi - see this YouTube video for more information about the pieces.

The outgoing email outage has been fixed! You will now receive confirmation emails and other Lichess emails again.

GM Magnus Carlsen won the Chess960 Grenke Freestyle Chess Open 2025 with a perfect score of 9/9! The Grenke Chess Open 2025 was won by 16-year-old IM Aswath S, who achieved a GM norm with his performance.

Congratulations to CM Konstantin Kornienko for winning our Titled Arena April! GM Andrew Tang took 2nd place, ahead of GM Minh Lê in 3rd place.