Boris Spassky, the legend and 10th World Chess Champion, passed away today at the age of 88.
GM Aleksandra Goryachkina won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Monaco with 5.5/9 on better tiebreaks than the tied GM Koneru Humpy and undefeated IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul!
The Prague International Chess Festival Masters 2025 starts at 14:00 UTC - featuring the recent Tata Steel winner GM R Praggnanandhaa and GMs Vincent Keymer, Wei Yi, David Navara, Anish Giri and Ediz Gürel among others. Watch all the games in our broadcast until 7 March.
Use our curated set of training positions to practice checkmates, common tactical patterns, and endgames!
Congratulations to team Moon Club by @MoonWarrior1 for winning the first ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with the help of their top scorers IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, @BetterCollSoul, GM Andrew Tang, IM Erick Zhao, GM Mitrabha Guha and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and players!
The third of six FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournaments starts at 14:00 UTC in Monaco! Follow all the games in our broadcast until 27 February, as GMs Tan Zhongyi, Aleksandra Goryachkina, Koneru Humpy and others try to collect more points for the WGP Series.
Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning our Streamers Battle February 2025! Congrats also to Полина Янученко1 for taking 2nd place, to Moon Club for 3rd place, and to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 2,002 registered players!
The final of the Antichess World Championship 2024 just started on Lichess! Watch the games between @TheUnknownGuyReborn and @Pinni7 in our broadcast, with live commentary by @firebatprime and others on YouTube.
This month's week of variant Shield Arenas starts soon at 16:00 UTC with the 3+2 Chess960 Arena! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until the next tournament.
Congratulations to GM Ediz Gürel for winning our Titled Arena February! GM Andrew Tang took 2nd place, just three points ahead of GM Christopher Yoo in 3rd place.
The ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix - featuring a total prize pool of $20,000 - will be held on the 20th of each month at 20:00 UTC from February to December on Lichess! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register for the first arena now.
Our February 1+0 Warm-up Arena begins at 17:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!
GM Vincent Keymer wins the first Chess960 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 event in Weissenhaus! He defeated GM Fabiano Caruana in the final after beating GMs Alireza Firouzja and Magnus Carlsen, who finished 3rd.
Congrats @Druismat on winning the Lichess Game of the Month January 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
GM Vincent Keymer, who defeated GM Magnus Carlsen 1.5 to 0.5 in the semi-finals, will play GM Fabiano Caruana in the final of the Chess960 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus - starting tomorrow at 12:00 UTC. Watch all the remaining games in our broadcast.
Join us and thousands of players for 5 hours of 3+0 Blitz in our Yearly SuperBlitz Arena, starting at 17:00 UTC.
Try our latest puzzle theme addition: the Vuković Mate. Many thanks again to @dirkster99 for helping to implement another new puzzle theme!
Lichess had 31 people contribute code across 15 repositories in January! Check out what's changed in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum thread.
The next high profile Chess960 event is underway! The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 has started in Weissenhaus, Germany. Follow all the games in our broadcast, featuring the reigning Fischer Random World Champion Hikaru Nakamura and GMs such as Gukesh D, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and others.
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 17th February at 16:00 UTC and 17th March at 16:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!
Our January 2025 free and open databases are now available for download. Together we played over 100,000,000 rated standard games last month and Antichess crossed 30 million rated games in total!
Our February 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, starts at 16:00 UTC! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.
GM R Praggnanandhaa wins the Tata Steel Masters 2025! He defeated World Champion Gukesh D in the Blitz tiebreak, after both players lost their Classical games in the final round. GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen took 1st place in the Challengers section and qualifies for next year's Masters tournament.
Watch former World Champion Garry Kasparov commentate Round 6 of the Kasparov Chess Foundation University Cup now live on Twitch!
We are now on Kaggle! Use our puzzles, openings, and engine evaluation datasets directly in your Kaggle notebooks.