Congrats FM @Ragehunter, the clear winner of our 2024 Autumn Marathon, with a 61% win rate in 454 games, 359 points ahead of 2nd placed CM @Statham_13! Thanks to all 20,555 registered users who played a total of 219,733 games. The next Marathon will take place on 28th December.
The Novy Bor Chess Club, with GM Vidit Gujrathi on board 1, won the European Chess Club Cup 2024. Tajfun ŠK Ljubljana, led by GM Nana Dzagnidze, won the Women's section. GM Arjun Erigaisi, who earlier crossed the 2800 mark in the live ratings, couldn't stay above 2800 after two draws in the final games.
Congratulations to IM Toivo Keinänen for winning our Titled Arena October! He overtook eventual runner-up GM Sergei Zhigalko in the end, who was leading for a long time! GM Oleksandr Bortnyk took 3rd place.
Join our 2024 Autumn Marathon, starting at midnight UTC, for 24 hours of 2+1 bullet chess and be part of one of the biggest chess tournaments in history! The winner, top 10, top 50, top 100 and top 500 players will all get a unique trophy.
For the first time in his career, GM Arjun Erigaisi has crossed the 2800 rating mark in the live ratings, after his win over GM Dmitry Andreikin in Round 5 of the European Chess Club Cup! Follow the remaining two rounds of the ECCC Open and Women's sections in our broadcasts.
Congratulations to Полина Янученко1 for winning our Streamers Battle October 2024! Congrats also to runner-up Ronaldo Playing Chess, to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for taking 3rd place, and to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,986 registered players!
Our 3+2 Crazyhouse Shield Arena, the second of eight variant Shield Arenas this month, starts at 16:00 UTC! All the rules of standard chess apply, but captured pieces can be dropped back on the board. The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until the next arena.
GM Arjun Erigaisi, world no. 4 in the live ratings, has won the WR Chess Masters Cup 2024 in an armageddon tiebreak game against GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
Join us and thousands of players for 8 hours of 10+0 Rapid in our Yearly Rapid Arena, starting at 17:00 UTC.
Congrats @WiNDim on winning the Lichess Game of the Month September 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
Demis Hassabis, the co-founder of Google DeepMind that created AlphaZero, has won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry!
Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Blitz Titled Arena October, 29 points ahead of runner-up GM Jakhongir Vakhidov, followed by GM Mitrabha Guha in 3rd place!
In just 3 hours, you'll have the chance to play against some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!
Follow the Global Chess League final between the teams of PBG Alaskan Knights with GM Anish Giri and Triveni Continental Knights with GM Alireza Firouzja in our broadcast starting at 13:45 UTC.
We now rotate the featured blogs on our homepage, giving you more variety and more authors the chance to have their blogs read by a wider audience.
Check out our new broadcast calendar! Sortable by year and month, you can find all our broadcasts much easier than before.
Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle on 21 October at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!
To better understand which moves led to three- and fivefold repetition draws, we now highlight them in the analysis, as in this game for example.
Thank you to the more than 38 contributors who made September one of our highest activity months! See what we've been working on in the updated changelog.
Join the 2nd Chess Day USA Arena, organised by the Connecticut State Chess Association, starting 5 October at 17:00 UTC - for 2 hours of 3+0 Blitz with a total prize fund of $600!
Together, we have now played over 6 billion rated standard games - and counting! All available for download in our free and open database.
Our Game of the Month September Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in September 2024 until 5 October! The winner will be announced on 14 October, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
Congratulations to GM Nihal Sarin for winning our Titled Arena September 2024! GM Andrew Tang took 2nd place and GM Daniel Naroditsky came in 3rd.
Our September 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 2 hours at 16:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!
The new season of the German Bundesliga has started, with GMs Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh D, Hikaru Nakamura, Arjun Erigaisi and many more expected to play in the coming rounds. Follow each round in our broadcast.