The FIDE 100 World Record attempt for the most chess games played worldwide online and offline in one day was successful! Together we contributed 1,117,345 eligible games out of a total of 2,958,024 rated games played on Lichess during the 24 hours!

Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Titled Arena July 2024 in a very close finish, just one point ahead of GM Alireza Firouzja! GM Nihal Sarin came in 3rd, losing his final game against eventual winner Naroditsky.

Our next 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 4 hours! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!

For the third year in a row, GM Liêm Quang Lê has won the Biel Masters, ahead of GMs Haik Martirosyan and R Praggnanandhaa. GM Salem Saleh came out on top of the first ever Biel Challengers tournament.

Today, Wednesday 24th July, Lichess will undergo scheduled maintenance between 02:00 and 03:00 UTC. We apologise for any inconvenience.

The last stage of the Biel Masters has started! GMs R Praggnanandhaa, Liêm Quang Lê, Abhimanyu Mishra and Haik Martirosyan are competing in a final round-robin tournament until 25 July, while the winner of the Challengers will be decided between GMs Salem Saleh, Alexander Donchenko and R Vaishali.

This month's week of Variant Shield Arenas starts in just 1 hour with the 3+2 Chess960 Arena! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's arena.