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One hundred women and girls have qualified for the Queens' Online Chess Festival Semi-Final! Watch all the games in our broadcast, starting today, . The top eight players will advance to the final on . Read more about the event in our announcement.
Congratulations to team K2N_chess by FM Konstantin Kostin for winning our Streamer Arena March 2026! Congrats also to Ronaldo Playing Chess for taking 2nd place, to The United Royal Legion for 3rd place, and to Шустрий кабан for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,484 registered players!
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 .
Lichess is only possible because of the generous time and help given by our volunteers. If you'd like to join the hundreds of volunteers helping Lichess, our Content & Social Media Team is currently looking for help. Read more and apply!
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.
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More »| Three-check Shield | 6h | 405 | |
| Weekly Horde | 3h | 52 | |
| Daily Rapid | 2h 30m | 866 | |
| Weekly Chess960 | 4h | 122 | |
| Daily HyperBullet | 1h | 83 | |
| Hourly Atomic | 57m | 32 | |
| Hourly Bullet | 27m | 164 | |
| ≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 114 | |
| Hourly Blitz | 57m | 184 | |
| ≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 169 | |
| ≤1300 Bullet | 27m | 18 | |
| ≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 53 | |
| Hourly Antichess | 57m | 20 | |
| Italian Game SuperBlitz | 57m | 86 |