Join us now on Twitch for the final day of our MSF Charity Campaign with host @Toadofsky and play in the MSF Charity Finale arena! Thanks to everyone who donates and supports the fundraising campaign for Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
Our May 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.
See what our developers and community contributors have been working on over the past month in our updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum topic.
The final FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournament has started in Großlobming, Austria! Follow all the games in our broadcast until 15 May, as GMs Tan Zhongyi, Anna Muzychuk, Zhu Jiner and others try to collect their last points for the WGP Series.
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 12 May at 15:00 UTC and 9 June at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, see here.
Our May 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.
Join us in celebrating 43 successful Lichess4545 seasons in the faster 15+15 kick-off arena on 4 May at 11:00 UTC! Lichess4545 has over 700 active members and hundreds of games played on a weekly basis. Cheers and here's to a fantastic Season 44!
Happy International Workers' Day! Great things are possible without exploiting workers, we just have to work together. Thank you to all our contributors and check out our contributing page, if you want to get involved. Whatever you do, fight for your rights!
Our Game of the Month April Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in April 2025 until 12 May! The winner will be announced on 24 May, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
GM Vladimir Fedoseev won the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland with only 1 loss in 27 games, ahead of GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and R Praggnanandhaa.
We support and encourage charitable donations to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Our MSF Charity Campaign starts with an arena on 3 May at 18:00 UTC. Several hosts will be streaming on our Twitch channel until 11 May to raise funds for MSF. If you would like to host a fundraising stream yourself, see here.
Tune in now on YouTube and Twitch for the final round of the German Bundesliga and German Women's Bundesliga with our host WCM Katharina Reinecke!
Congrats FM @Ragehunter on winning our 2025 Spring Marathon - their 4th Marathon victory in a row - with a 58% win rate in 382 games, 16 points ahead of runner-up @cbev378! Thanks to all 21,169 registered users who played a total of 189,867 games and 13,482,523 moves! The next Marathon will take place on 2 August.
Watch Round 14 of the German Bundesliga and Round 10 of the German Women's Bundesliga now with us and our host WCM Katharina Reinecke on YouTube and Twitch!
Our 2025 Spring Marathon starts at midnight UTC! Join us and thousands of players for 24 hours of 5+0 Blitz and be part of one of the biggest chess tournaments in history. The top 500, top 100, top 50, top 10 and the winner will all get a unique trophy.
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 13 of the German Bundesliga and Round 9 of the German Women's Bundesliga with our host WCM Katharina Reinecke! Follow the games of GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Vincent Keymer, Anish Giri, Alexandra Kosteniuk and many more.
Congrats GM @delta_horsey on winning the Lichess Game of the Month March 2025! Thank you all for your submissions!
Congratulations to team Saqochess & friends and fan club by FM Sargis A. Manukyan for winning the third ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers GM Mamikon Gharibyan, IM Reza Mahdavi, IM Samir Sahidi and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and players!
GM Humpy Koneru is the winner of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024/25 event in Pune, India! She is now 2nd in the overall GP standings behind GM Aleksandra Goryachkina. The top two will qualify for the next Women's Candidates Tournament. The final GP event starts on 6 May in Grosslobming, Austria.
Play now with our new Firi piece set! Select it from the Piece set option in your account menu. Many thanks to James Faure for contributing it! The piece set was originally designed for Shogi - see this YouTube video for more information about the pieces.
GM Magnus Carlsen won the Chess960 Grenke Freestyle Chess Open 2025 with a perfect score of 9/9! The Grenke Chess Open 2025 was won by 16-year-old IM Aswath S, who achieved a GM norm with his performance.
Congratulations to CM Konstantin Kornienko for winning our Titled Arena April! GM Andrew Tang took 2nd place, ahead of GM Minh Lê in 3rd place.
The third ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th April at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register now for upcoming arenas.