A new progress bar in the open tournaments section of our homepage shows you the remaining time of started arenas, making it easier to see how much time is left before you join a tournament.
Congratulations to GM Andrew Tang for winning our Titled Arena December! GM Nihal Sarin took 2nd place, ahead of GM Daniel Naroditsky in 3rd place.
Our December 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!
Our puzzle database comes from real user games played on Lichess - see if any of your masterpieces (or blunders) made it into the collection!
Your 2024 Lichess recap is ready! See a personalised look back at your chess activity this year.
Congratulations to Полина Янученко1 for winning our Streamers Battle December 2024! Congrats also to Ronaldo Playing Chess 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 1,792 registered players!
Our December week of variant Shield Arenas starts at 16:00 UTC with the 3+2 Chess960 Arena! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's arena.
Congrats @joddle on winning the Lichess Game of the Month November 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
The Lichess Bundesliga, world's biggest online chess league, celebrates its 500th edition today after over 4 years - starting at 19:00 UTC!
18-year-old GM Gukesh D has become the youngest World Chess Champion in history! Read our final recap blog and find out what happened in Game 14 against GM Ding Liren.
Watch the final classical game of the 2024 World Championship now on Twitch and YouTube with us and our commentators GM Ivan Cheparinov, IM Laura Unuk & GM Felix Blohberger!
GM Gukesh D missed some chances in Game 13 of the World Championship against GM Ding Liren and the game ended in a draw! We have summarised the game in our blog, again with annotations by GM Yannick Gozzoli.
Join us and today's livestream commentators IM Divya Deshmukh, IM Laura Unuk and GM Felix Blohberger now on Twitch and YouTube for Game 13 of the World Championship!
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next and final Streamers Battle of 2024 on December 16th at 16:00 UTC - again with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!
GM Ding Liren bounced back and defeated GM Gukesh D to tie the score at 6-6, just before the final rest day of the World Championship 2024 and only two more games to play! Read our blog for a recap of Game 12, with annotations by GM Yannick Gozzoli.
Yesterday GM Gukesh D managed to take the lead over GM Ding Liren for the first time in the 2024 World Championship match: Can GM Ding Liren make a comeback today? Watch Game 12 now with us and our hosts IM Laura Unuk & GM Felix Blohberger on YouTube and Twitch!
Watch Game 11 of the World Championship now live on Twitch and YouTube with us and our hosts IM Laura Unuk and GM Felix Blohberger!
Congratulations to GM @caching for winning our Chess960 Titled Arena December 2024! GM Vahap Şanal took 2nd place and GM Mitrabha Guha finished 3rd.
Our Chess960 3+2 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 Chess960 Titled Arena!
Join us now on Twitch and YouTube for Game 10 of the World Championship, with live commentary from our stream hosts IM Laura Unuk and GM Felix Blohberger!
Our November 2024 free and open databases are available for download! You can now also find the games, puzzles, and engine evaluations on Hugging Face - with billions of chess data points to download, query, and stream. We're excited to see what you will build!
We have added many improvements and new features to Lichess over the past month! See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog.
Watch Game 9 of the World Championship now on Twitch and YouTube with us and our commentators GM Thomas Beerdsen and GM Felix Blohberger!
Both players had their chances in Game 8 of the World Championship, but in the end GMs Ding Liren and Gukesh D drew again. Read what happened in our recap blog, with annotations by GM Maxime Lagarde.