Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 3 of the Aktobe Open with our hosts IM Laura Unuk and WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea!
Congratulations to team Saqochess & friends and fan club by FM Sargis A. Manukyan for winning the fifth ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers IM Renato Alfredo Terry Lujan, @Guary1, IM Samir Sahidi, @BetterCollSoul and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 2,155 registered players!
Watch Round 2 of the Aktobe Open now with us and our hosts IM Laura Unuk and WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea on YouTube or Twitch!
GM Ivan Cheparinov was the only top 5 seeded player to win in Round 1 of the Aktobe Open 2025! Top seed GM Wang Hao lost to FM Dmitry Rostovtsev, 2nd seed GM Alexey Sarana drew with IM Atilla Kuru, 3rd seed GM Shant Sargsyan resigned against IM Goutham Krishna H, and 5th seed GM Bardiya Daneshvar was beaten by FM Shahin Valiyev.
We will stream the Aktobe Open 2025 every day from June 22 to 30. Tune in now on YouTube or Twitch to watch Round 1 with us and our commentators IM Laura Unuk and WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea! Follow the games featuring GMs Wang Hao, Alexey Sarana, Shant Sargsyan, Ivan Cheparinov and many more.
Congratulations to GM Alireza Firouzja for winning our Bullet Titled Arena, ahead of GM Sergei Zhigalko, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, CM Konstantin Kornienko, and GM @Chamaeleon3!
Our June 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.
Lichess turns 15 years old today! Thanks to all our users, contributors and supporters. Celebrate with us in our anniversary tournament.
Lichess has resumed cooperation with Saint Louis Chess Club after positive changes. Read about our decision in full in our announcement.
WR Chess Team won the FIDE World Blitz Team Championship 2025 with GMs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Hou Yifan, Alexandra Kosteniuk, team founder Wadim Rosenstein, and captain Jan Gustafsson! They defeated team KazChess in the final.
Team MGD1 are the new FIDE World Rapid Team Champions thanks to GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Pentala Harikrishna, David Anton Guijarro, Leon Luke Mendonca, Pranav V, IM Stavroula Tsolakidou, top scorer Atharvaa P Tayade, and team captain GM Srinath Narayanan! The World Team Championships continue with the first stage of the Blitz tournament at 13:00 UTC.
Congratulations to CHESS CLASSROOM for winning our Streamers Battle June 2025! Congrats also to Ronaldo Playing Chess for taking 2nd place, to K2N_chess for 3rd place, and to Chess_ranj for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 2,407 registered players!
The fifth ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th June at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.
The FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Team Championships 2025 just started in London, England! GMs Hikaru Nakamura, Vishy Anand, Alireza Firouzja and many more will compete with their teams for the Rapid Championship title until 13 June and the Blitz Championship title from 14 to 15 June.
More new features and improvements were added to Lichess last month! See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum topic.
Congratulations to GM @SVODMEVKO for winning our Blitz Titled Arena, ahead of GM @FeegLood, GM Christopher Yoo, GM Shant Sargsyan, and GM Alireza Firouzja!
Our June 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.
GM Magnus Carlsen is the winner of Norway Chess 2025! GM Fabiano Caruana finished in 2nd place, while the reigning World Champion, GM Gukesh Dommaraju, took 3rd place. GM Anna Muzychuk secured 1st place in the Women's Tournament, with GM Lei Tingjie coming in 2nd and GM Koneru Humpy in 3rd place.
GM Aravindh Chithambaram won the 6th Stepan Avagyan Memorial ahead of GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, repeating his success at the 2025 Prague International Chess Festival, and climbed to 9th in the live ratings!
Our broadcasts now support custom game scores on player and result pages! Check it out in our Norway Chess 2025 broadcast, where players receive 3 points for a win in the classical game instead of just 1, for example.
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 9 June at 15:00 UTC and 7 July at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, see here.
Our Game of the Month May Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in May 2025 until 12 June! The winner will be announced on 24 June, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
Happy Pride Month! Lichess is for everyone, chess is for everyone!
After 4 rounds and into the first rest day of Norway Chess 2025, GM Magnus Carlsen is leading the Open with a narrow edge of 1 point over GM Fabiano Caruana. In the Women’s section, GMs Anna Muzychuk and Koneru Humpy are tied at the top. The event resumes tomorrow. Follow the games in our broadcasts at 15:00 UTC!
Norway Chess 2025 has started! Follow all the action live on Lichess until 6 June. Don't miss a move by top players like World Champion Gukesh D and GM Magnus Carlsen in the Open, and five-time Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun and GM Koneru Humpy in the Women's tournament.