Our December 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, is about to start! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.

Our Game of the Month November Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in November 2024 until 5 December! The winner will be announced on 14 December, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

21 Lichess team members from around the world travelled to Berlin for our meetup from 7-11 November: We summarised the days of chess, work and meeting the community in our blog. Thanks to TSG Oberschöneweide for hosting our public meetup and to Paul Meyer-Dunker from the Berlin Chess Federation for helping!

Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Game 6 of the World Championship, with live commentary from GM Nils Grandelius and our host IM Laura Unuk!

GMs Gukesh D and Ding Liren also drew Game 5 of the World Championship. Find out how the defending World Champion Ding Liren could have kept the game going in our recap blog, again with annotations by GM Maxime Lagarde.

Tune in now on YouTube and Twitch for live commentary of Game 5 of the World Championship - with GM Levon Aronian, GM Matthew Sadler and our host IM Laura Unuk!

Game 4 of the World Championship ended with the second draw between GMs Ding Liren and Gukesh D. Read our summary in the recap blog, this time with annotations from former French champion GM Maxime Lagarde. For the next round, GMs Levon Aronian and Matthew Sadler will return to our live stream and commentate together with our host IM Laura Unuk!