The Hindu newspaper interviewed our Director of Operations, Theo Wait: "We want to keep Lichess completely free, and say no to ads as well. There have been offers to buy out Lichess, but we are not for sale." Check out the free version of the article on The Hindu newspaper's website.

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!