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“Luchamos como Húsares.”
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Congratulations to GM @legendreturns for winning our Blitz Titled Arena March 2026, ahead of FM Havard Haug, CM @innocentguy, IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk!
Our March 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Blitz Titled Arena at .
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The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on ! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.
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.
Get ready for our next Streamer Arenas on and , with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, register now.
Congrats NM @visualdennis on winning our Women's Day 2026 Arena ahead of @Sergofanchik2026, @OM64, @Savateyev, and LM @Lance5500! Thank you to all 3,007 registered players who celebrated International Women's Day with us, playing 5,250 games and making 270,747 moves.
Open tournaments
More »| Racing Kings Shield | 6h | 257 | |
| Weekly King of the Hill | 3h | 87 | |
| Daily UltraBullet | 1h | 123 | |
| Hourly Crazyhouse | 57m | 54 | |
| ≤1700 Rapid | 57m | 149 | |
| Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 429 | |
| ≤2000 Blitz | 57m | 310 | |
| ≤1300 SuperBlitz | 57m | 61 | |
| Four Knights Game Blitz | 57m | 81 | |
| ≤1500 Bullet | 27m | ||
| Hourly Bullet | 27m |