Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning the Streamers Battle August 2024! Congrats also to runners-up IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS, Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for taking 3rd place and IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,852 registered players!
Hovering over player names in broadcast games will now display additional information, including their previous games and opponents, estimated Elo rating change and score! This information is also available in the new Players tab, which you can sort by clicking on one of the column titles.
The first of six FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournaments started in Tbilisi, Georgia! Until 24 August, some of the strongest women, including former World Champions Alexandra Kosteniuk and Mariya Muzychuk, GMs R Vaishali, Anna Muzychuk and IM Sara Khadem, will try to earn points for the WGP Series.
Congrats @Schmobi on winning the Lichess Game of the Month July 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle on 19 August at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!
Congratulations to IM @Wafwhij02 for winning our Blitz Titled Arena August 2024! IM Mukhiddin Madaminov finished 2nd with a 97% berserk rate and GM Volodar Murzin was just one point behind in 3rd place.
In just 2 hours, you'll have the chance to play against some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!
Over 30 people contributed code to Lichess last month! See what was worked on in the updated Changelog.
The Lewis Chess Legends 2024 starts today at 15:00 UTC, featuring GM Jon Ludvig Hammer and IM Eric Rosen among others! Join us and our commentator IM Irene Sukandar on YouTube and Twitch every day until 14 August.
Al-Ain ACMG UAE are the World Rapid Team Champions 2024 with their top performers GMs Dmitry Andreikin, Vladislav Artemiev and Parham Maghsoodloo. The first ever World Blitz Team Championship was won by the WR Chess Team, including GMs Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hou Yifan among others.
Our August 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, starts in 3 hours! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.
The Story of Lichess documentary premieres on YouTube today at 17:00 UTC! Watch to learn about the largest chess charity in the world, get to know our team and much more.
Congratulations to @Ragehunter for winning our 2024 Summer Marathon with a 69% win rate in 867 games, followed by close runner-up @Fritzi_2003 who was in the lead for a long time! Thanks to all 20,000+ registered users who played a total of 465,909 games.
Join our 2024 Summer Marathon, starting at midnight UTC, for 24 hours of 1+0 bullet chess and be part of one of the biggest chess tournaments in history! The winner, top 10, top 50, top 100 and top 500 players will all get a unique trophy.
The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships 2024 have started in Astana, Kazakhstan, featuring GMs Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Ju Wenjun and many more! The World Rapid Team Championship will be played until 4 August, with the Blitz section taking place the next day.
Our Game of the Month July Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in July 2024 until 5 August! The winner will be announced on 14 August, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
The FIDE 100 World Record attempt for the most chess games played worldwide online and offline in one day was successful! Together we contributed 1,117,345 eligible games out of a total of 2,958,024 rated games played on Lichess during the 24 hours!
Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Titled Arena July 2024 in a very close finish, just one point ahead of GM Alireza Firouzja! GM Nihal Sarin came in 3rd, losing his final game against eventual winner Naroditsky.
Our next 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 4 hours! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!
For the third year in a row, GM Liêm Quang Lê has won the Biel Masters, ahead of GMs Haik Martirosyan and R Praggnanandhaa. GM Salem Saleh came out on top of the first ever Biel Challengers tournament.
The last stage of the Biel Masters has started! GMs R Praggnanandhaa, Liêm Quang Lê, Abhimanyu Mishra and Haik Martirosyan are competing in a final round-robin tournament until 25 July, while the winner of the Challengers will be decided between GMs Salem Saleh, Alexander Donchenko and R Vaishali.
This month's week of Variant Shield Arenas starts in just 1 hour with the 3+2 Chess960 Arena! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's arena.
For the next 24 hours, all rated games played on Lichess with a minimum time control of 3 min + 2 sec, or equivalent such as 5+0, and lasting at least 15 moves will count towards the FIDE 100 World Record Attempt for the most chess games played online and offline in one day!