The second rest day of the World Championship 2024 is over and we are back now with live commentary on Twitch and YouTube - today with our host GM Felix Blohberger and returning guest GM Nils Grandelius!
Our December 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, is about to start! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.
Our Game of the Month November Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in November 2024 until 5 December! The winner will be announced on 14 December, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
21 Lichess team members from around the world travelled to Berlin for our meetup from 7-11 November: We summarised the days of chess, work and meeting the community in our blog. Thanks to TSG Oberschöneweide for hosting our public meetup and to Paul Meyer-Dunker from the Berlin Chess Federation for helping!
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Game 6 of the World Championship, with live commentary from GM Nils Grandelius and our host IM Laura Unuk!
GMs Gukesh D and Ding Liren also drew Game 5 of the World Championship. Find out how the defending World Champion Ding Liren could have kept the game going in our recap blog, again with annotations by GM Maxime Lagarde.
Tune in now on YouTube and Twitch for live commentary of Game 5 of the World Championship - with GM Levon Aronian, GM Matthew Sadler and our host IM Laura Unuk!
Game 4 of the World Championship ended with the second draw between GMs Ding Liren and Gukesh D. Read our summary in the recap blog, this time with annotations from former French champion GM Maxime Lagarde. For the next round, GMs Levon Aronian and Matthew Sadler will return to our live stream and commentate together with our host IM Laura Unuk!
The World Championship match between GMs Ding Liren and Gukesh D continues with Game 4 after yesterday's break: Join us and our hosts IM Laura Unuk and GM Felix Blohberger now on Twitch and YouTube!
Have you tried Lichess Voice Recognition? We just added new features like the pieces command, which reads the board to you, and more. Enable it in the settings or try it directly in Coordinates training by clicking on the voice recognition icon.
Ahead of the first rest day, GM Gukesh D bounces back with a win over GM Ding Liren in Game 3 of the World Championship! We summarised what happened in our recap blog, again with annotations by GM David Navara.
GM Levon Aronian and our hosts IM Laura Unuk and GM Felix Blohberger are live for Game 3 of the World Championship! Join us on Twitch and YouTube for commentary from the 2-time World Cup winner, 3-time Olympic Gold Medallist and former Rapid, Blitz & Chess960 World Champion.
Game 2 of the World Championship ended in a draw, read what happened in our recap blog with annotations from GM David Navara. Tomorrow, our stream hosts IM Laura Unuk and GM Felix Blohberger will be joined by super GM and 4th highest rated player of all time, Levon Aronian, on YouTube and Twitch from 09:00 UTC!
Watch Game 2 of the World Championship now on Twitch and YouTube with us and today's commentators IM Laura Unuk, GM Felix Blohberger and GM Matthew Sadler!
GM Ding Liren defeated GM Gukesh D in Game 1 of the World Championship! Read our recap blog and replay the game with annotations by GM David Navara.
Join us now on Twitch and YouTube for Game 1 of the World Championship with today's hosts IM Laura Unuk and the recently crowned European Champion GM Aleksandar Indjic!
The FIDE World Championship 2024 between defending champion GM Ding Liren and challenger GM Gukesh D starts on Monday, 25 November at 09:00 UTC in Singapore! Read more in our preview blog and make sure to tune in to our Twitch and YouTube channels for live stream coverage with our hosts GM Felix Blohberger and IM Laura Unuk, joined by various rotating guests!
Congratulations to GM Nihal Sarin for winning our Titled Arena November! GM Emin Ohanyan took 2nd place, just one point ahead of GM @chessmaster2006 in 3rd place.
Our November 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 16:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Fabiano Caruana 1.5 to 0.5 in their Chess960 match at the Freestyle Chess Summit Singapore.
The first game of the Chess960 match between GMs Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana at the Freestyle Chess Summit Singapore starts at 12:00 UTC! Follow all the games of the event in our broadcast until 22 November.
GM Aleksandar Inđić has won the European Individual Chess Championship 2024 undefeated with a tournament performance rating of over 2800 and has qualified for the FIDE World Cup 2025 along with the other top 20 players from this year's European Championship.
Congratulations to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for winning our Streamers Battle November 2024! Congrats also to Полина Янученко1 for taking 2nd place, to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 3rd place, and to IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,647 registered players!
The November week of variant Shield Arenas is about to start with the 3+2 Chess960 Arena! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's arena.
Join the Winter's Comin' Arena, organised by the Connecticut State Chess Association, starting 16 November at 18:00 UTC - for 2 hours of 5+0 Blitz with a total prize fund of $600!