The 2025 Summer Marathon starts at midnight UTC! Join us and thousands of players for 24 hours of 1+0 Bullet and be part of one of the biggest chess tournaments in history. The top 500, top 100, top 50, top 10 and the winner will all get a unique trophy.
Our Game of the Month July Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in July 2025 until 12 August! The winner will be announced on 24 August, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
IM Divya Deshmukh won the FIDE Women's World Cup 2025! She has qualified for the next Women's Candidates Tournament, earned the GM title, and will take home $50,000! Runner-up GM Koneru Humpy was beaten in the final tiebreaks, but has also secured a spot in the next Women's Candidates Tournament!
GM Tan Zhongyi beat GM Lei Tingjie to take 3rd place in the FIDE Women's World Cup and qualify for the next Women's Candidates Tournament! Finalists IM Divya Deshmukh and GM Koneru Humpy drew both of their classical games and the winner will be decided in the tiebreaks, starting at 08:00 UTC.
The first game of the FIDE Women's World Cup finals between IM Divya Deshmukh and GM Koneru Humpy ended in a draw. Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for the second game with our hosts WIM Jesse February and WCM Katharina Reinecke!
Congratulations to GM Ediz Gürel for winning our Bullet Titled Arena, ahead of GM Andrew Tang, GM Sergei Zhigalko, IM Artem Uskov, and GM @FeegLood!
Join us in celebrating 44 successful Lichess4545 seasons in the faster 15+15 Kick-off Arena at 22:45 UTC! Lichess4545 has over 700 active members and hundreds of games played on a weekly basis. Here's to a fantastic and numerically significant Season 45 of Lichess4545!
Congrats @RejectedQuadratic on winning the Lichess Game of the Month June 2025! Thank you all for your countless submissions!
Our July 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.
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for the first game of the FIDE Women's World Cup finals with our hosts WIM Jesse February and WIM Ellen Nilssen!
Congratulations to team K2N_chess for winning the sixth ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers GM José Martínez Alcántara, IM Reza Mahdavi, @doughnut42, GM Mitrabha Guha and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,452 registered players!
Follow the FIDE Women's World Cup semi-final tiebreaks between GMs Koneru Humpy and Lei Tingjie now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and WCM Niusha Afshar! The winner will face IM Divya Deshmukh in the final, who defeated former Women's World Champion Tan Zhongyi yesterday.
Watch Game 2 of the FIDE Women's World Cup semi-finals now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and WCM Niusha Afshar and read our recap of round 5 with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea!
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and WCM Katharina Reinecke for the FIDE Women's World Cup quarter-final tiebreak match between IM Divya Deshmukh and GM Harika Dronavalli!
GM Levon Aronian won the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas! He defeated GM Hans Niemann 1.5 to 0.5 in the Grand Final, while GM Magnus Carlsen beat GM Hikaru Nakamura in the 3rd place match.
The final round of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Las Vegas is about to start at 18:00 UTC! GM Hans Niemann faces GM Levon Aronian in the Grand Final, and former World Champion Magnus Carlsen plays GM Hikaru Nakamura for 3rd place. Follow all the games in our broadcast.
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Watch the second round of the FIDE Women's World Cup quarter-finals with our hosts WIM Jesse February and WCM Katharina Reinecke now on YouTube and Twitch!
Join the special FIDE Social Chess Day Marathon on Lichess to celebrate International Chess Day on 20 July! Get yourself a temporary trophy on your profile by scoring at least a draw in the arena and win one of the randomly distributed prizes, including flights and accommodation to the 2026 World Chess Olympiad.
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for the first game of the FIDE Women's World Cup quarter-finals with our hosts WIM Jesse February and WCM Katharina Reinecke! Former Women's World Champion GM Tan Zhongyi faces GM Vaishali Rameshbabu, and GM Nana Dzagnidze takes on women's world number 3, GM Lei Tingjie.
In Round 3 of the FIDE Women's World Cup 2025, IM Song Yuxin eliminated one of the tournament favorites, GM Anna Muzychuk, while GM Kateryna Lagno won her match against IM Vantika Agrawal in what was a very close and exciting tiebreak. Read our recap with annotations by WGM Petra Papp.
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 José Martínez Alcántara for winning our Blitz Titled Arena July 2025! IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher took 2nd place, ahead of IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján in 3rd place.
Our July 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.
From 12 to 26 July, you have the chance to qualify for the Almaty Open 2025 - with all expenses covered - in a series of Lichess tournaments, featuring a prize fund of $2,000! The first qualifier arena starts on 12 July at 15:00 UTC. See the schedule for all upcoming arenas.