GM Matthias Blübaum is the new European Chess Champion and now the only player to have won the title twice! He finished with 8.5/11 points, just like GM Frederik Svane in 2nd place and GM Maxim Rodhstein in 3rd place, but had the better tiebreak scores. The top 20 players who weren't already qualified have secured a spot in the FIDE World Cup.
Find out more about the FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2025 challenger, GM Tan Zhongyi, in our first preview blog! We will stream every round of the Women's World Championship from 3 to 20 April on our Twitch and YouTube channels - more details coming soon.
GM Anna Muzychuk won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Nicosia on better tiebreaks than GM Zhu Jiner! Both players drew their games in the final round. IM Olga Badelka could have changed the outcome in favor of GM Zhu Jiner with a win over IM Stavroula Tsolakidou, but missed her chance in a complicated endgame.
Tune in now on YouTube and Twitch and watch Round 12 of the German Bundesliga, the strongest chess league in the world, with us and our host WCM Katharina Reinecke!
Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Titled Arena March! GM Brandon Jacobson took 2nd place, ahead of GM Christopher Yoo in 3rd place.
Join us now on Twitch and YouTube for Round 11 of the German Bundesliga with our host WCM Katharina Reinecke! Follow the games of GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Anish Giri, Vincent Keymer and many more.
Our March 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 17:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena.
Enter the World of Solving Magic with six-time World Chess Solving Champion GM Kacper Piorun! The Lichess study introduces composed problems used in chess solving competitions. The course is aimed at advanced players.
Congratulations to team Moon Club by @MoonWarrior1 for also winning the second ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers IM Jakub Půlpán, @BetterCollSoul, @DrMystic, IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, @Aghapourchess100 and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and players!
GM Anna Muzychuk leads the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Nicosia on the first rest day with 4/5 points, ahead of GMs Zhu Jiner and Aleksandra Goryachkina. Watch more high-level chess now in the European Championship 2025, where GM Daniil Yuffa is the only player to have won every game after 5 rounds!
Congratulations to VEER SHAH & FRIENDS for winning our Streamers Battle March 2025! Congrats also to Moon Club for taking 2nd place, to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 3rd place, and to Полина Янученко1 for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 2,026 registered players!
Congrats @jan6363 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month February 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
The European Championship, featuring GMs Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Alexey Sarana, David Navara and more, as well as the 4th FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournament in Nicosia, with GMs Aleksandra Goryachkina, Anna Muzychuk, and Zhu Jiner among others, are both about to start at 13:00 UTC! Follow all the games in our broadcasts.
The second ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th March at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register now until 17th March.
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 17th March at 16:00 UTC and 14th April at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!
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.
Our Game of the Month February Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in February 2025 until 5 March! The winner will be announced on 14 March, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
The March 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.