Ever wanted to ask the Lichess Team anything? You can do so today in our Lichess Team AMA on r/chess! We will try to answer (almost) all your questions from 19:00 to 21:00 UTC. Feel free to get your questions in early!
Congratulations to GM Alireza Firouzja for winning the Chess960 Titled Arena March '24 with a berserk rate of 90%! GM Jose Martinez Alcantara finished in second place, 8 points behind.
Join the Chess960 Warm-up Arena for a chance to face some of the titled players before they enter the Chess960 Titled Arena! Last month saw the most rated Chess960 games played on Lichess since September 2022, available for download in our free and open database along with all the other rated games.
"I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves." — Robert James "Bobby" Fischer, 11th World Chess Champion and one of the most influential chess players of all time, was born on this day in 1943.
Happy International Women's Day! Join us for our 3-hour Thematic Women's Day Arena to celebrate this important day.
The Prague Chess Festival is over: GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov won the Masters 1.5 points ahead of a group led by GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen and is the new number 4 in the live ratings! The Challengers section was won by 15-year-old IM (and soon-to-be GM) Ediz Gürel, who achieved his 3rd and final GM norm.
The Lichess Bundesliga, world's largest online chess league, celebrates 2 million registrations after almost 4 years since its first edition! Join the next Lichess Bundesliga edition starting in 3 hours and celebrate together.
Final round of the Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024 in 2 hours: GMs Bu Xiangzhi, Yu Yangyi and Arjun Erigaisi are currently tied for first place with 4/6 points! Top seed GM Anish Giri hopes for a good result against Yu Yangyi to not finish last after a disappointing tournament performance.
Find out what's new on Lichess and see what our developers and community contributors have been working on over the past month in our updated changelog.
Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle on the 18th - again with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! It will start four hours earlier than usual to give users in different time zones better chances.
Our 3+0 SuperBlitz Shield Arena, the second of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, begins in 1 hour! The winner gets a unique trophy and will keep it until next month's tournament.
The pairings for the FIDE Open and Women's Candidates 2024 have been announced! However, with the tournaments only one month away, it is uncertain whether they can be held in Toronto: More than 40 people, including players and coaches, are reportedly still waiting for their visas to be approved.
Rest day in the Prague Chess Festival Masters: GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov leads undefeated with 4/5 points and a performance rating of over 2900, making him the new world number 5 in the live ratings! He will face GM Praggnanandhaa in round 6 tomorrow, while the Open section continues today.
Are you a chess teacher? You can use Lichess Class to create accounts, monitor progress, post homework, and message your students - all from a single hub!
Our Game of the Month February Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in February 2024 until March 5th! The winner will be announced one week after the deadline, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
The new FIDE rating regulations announced in January are now in effect: Most notably, players rated below 2000 had their ratings increased by 40% of the difference between their old rating and 2000, and the rating floor was raised from 1000 to 1400.
Follow more super GM action until March 7 in the 8-player round-robin Shenzhen Longgang Chess Masters 2024 with world number 5 Anish Giri, Arjun Erigaisi and Daniil Dubov.
Based on your feedback following the loss of chess24 as a platform to watch live chess events, our team has been working on major changes to Lichess broadcasts. We have summarised the changes in our Broadcast Updates blog!
Round 1 of this year's Prague Chess Festival has started, featuring super GMs such as Praggnanandhaa, Abdusattorov and Keymer in the Masters and GMs Korobov, l’Ami and Mishra among others in the Challengers section. The festival runs until March 7.
The FIDE World Corporate Chess Championship 2024 online qualifiers and knockout stages will be played on Lichess between March 16 and April 20. The top 8 teams will advance to the finals held in New York City from June 15 to 17. Corporations wishing to register their team can do so now.
One of the most requested features for our mobile app, the broadcasts, will finally be available in the upcoming new app, as our developer @veloce confirmed on YouTube!
Congratulations to GM Andrew Tang for winning the Titled Arena February '24 with GMs Oleksandr Bortnyk and Daniel Naroditsky in close second and third places!
Join us in 6 hours for our 1+0 Bullet Warm-up Arena and get the chance to play against some of the titled players before the Titled Arena!
We have continued to make lots of changes to our broadcasts, including support for team events, tournament sections and the integration of a FIDE player database to automatically add the correct player names, ratings & titles. See all of it in action in the final round of the Mitropa Cup!
GM Felix Blohberger provides a retrospective of the World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2023 and annotated some of his favourite games for us!