We have launched two new team leagues! The Lichess Rapid League is held every Monday at 17:00 UTC and the Lichess Bullet League is held every Wednesday at 18:00 UTC. Read more in our announcement.
GM Wei Yi, GM Javokhir Sindarov, GM Andrey Esipenko, and GM Nodirbek Yakubboev are through to the Semifinals of the FIDE World Cup 2025! Read our recap, watch our interviews on YouTube, and follow all the games in our broadcast. The tournament will continue on 21 November at 09:45 UTC, after tomorrow's rest day.
You may experience issues on Lichess due to a Cloudflare outage since 11:48 UTC. According to Cloudflare, "a fix has been implemented" and they "believe the incident is now resolved". We apologize for the inconvenience and will continue to monitor the situation.
Check out our new puzzle theme: the Balestra Mate. Read about how we identify these patterns from our puzzles database in the blog post by @dirkster99 and get involved.
GM Alexander Donchenko won a tense match against GM Lê Quang Liêm in Round 5 of the FIDE World Cup 2025 to advance to the Quarterfinals! Among others, top seeds GM Arjun Erigaisi and GM Wei Yi will face each other in the next round. Read our recap, watch our interviews on YouTube, and follow the games in our broadcast at 09:45 UTC.
Congratulations to K2N_chess for winning our Streamer Arena November 2025! Congrats also to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for taking 2nd place, to Chess City Team for 3rd place, and to ChessExpertsTeam for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,316 registered players!
GM Daniil Dubov defeated GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu in Round 4 of the FIDE World Cup 2025, while GM Vincent Keymer, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and GM Matthias Blübaum were eliminated as well. Read our recap, watch our interviews on YouTube, and follow all the games of Round 5 in our broadcast at 09:45 UTC.
The 10th and final ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th November at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.
Researchers at Google DeepMind used our free puzzle database and reinforcement learning to train a model to generate creative chess puzzles. Read more on this in the blog by Tom Zahavy from the DeepMind discovery team and try to solve the puzzles yourself in the Lichess study!
GM Frederik Svane eliminated World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in Round 3 of the FIDE World Cup 2025, as GM Anish Giri and GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov are also out of the tournament. Read our recap, check out our interviews on YouTube, and watch all the games of Round 4 in our broadcast at 09:45 UTC.
Broadcast player search is now available on our new mobile app! Find your favourite player's game with the search bar on top of the boards page. Watch our YouTube video to see how it works!
Thank you to all 12,205 players who joined our Memorial Arena for GM Daniel Naroditsky. Today would have been Danya's 30th birthday. We will remember him for his passion and inspiration, as one of the brightest advocates for chess.
Congratulations to GM Sergei Zhigalko for winning our Blitz Titled Arena November 2025, ahead of IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, IM Reza Mahdavi, GM Brandon Jacobson, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk!
Our November 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts in less than two hours at 19:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.
We invite you to join us tomorrow at 15:00 UTC for a bullet arena in memory of GM Daniel Naroditsky, known on Lichess as @RebeccaHarris. November 9 would have been his 30th birthday.
Top seeds GM Wesley So, GM Hans Niemann, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, and GM Nihal Sarin were eliminated in Round 2 of the FIDE World Cup 2025! Read our recap, check out our interviews from the World Cup on YouTube, and watch all the games of Round 3 now in our broadcast.
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamer Arenas on 10 November at 16:00 UTC and 7 December at 16:00 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.
While most of the favourites won their matches in Round 1 of the FIDE World Cup 2025, IM Wang Shixu upset GM Leon Luke Mendonca, and IM Faustino Oro prevailed against GM Ante Brkić. Read our recap and watch Round 2 now in our broadcast.
Our Game of the Month October Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in October 2025 until 12 November! The winner will be announced on 24 November, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
The FIDE World Cup 2025 takes place in Goa, India, from 1–26 November, and starts at 09:30 UTC! With a prize fund of $2,000,000 and three Candidates spots up for grabs, the knockout tournament is one of the highlights this year. Check out our preview, including simulated predictions, and watch all the games in our broadcast.
2,102 Halloween Gambits were played on Lichess last Halloween, according to our free and open database! Celebrate with our thematic 3+0 Halloween Gambit Arena, starting at 22:00 UTC.
GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown, ahead of GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Hikaru Nakamura, and World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju! Replay all the games in our broadcast.
Congrats @Ze-Prodigy on winning the Lichess Game of the Month September 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana are playing in the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown until 29 October! Watch all the games in our broadcast.
Congrats GM Mahdi Gholami Orimi on winning our 2025 Autumn Marathon with a 57% win rate in 357 games, finishing 63 points ahead of 2nd placed CM Maxim Snigurov! Thanks to all 21,022 registered players who played a total of 177,410 games and 12,339,294 moves.