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Art of the Nerd Snipe

From 1400 to 1800: Chess Training Guide

Prendre l'avantage dans l'ouverture d'une manière hypermoderne

Recognizing Patterns in Atomic Chess: Part 1

Mastering the Open File with Grandmaster

IAF Antichess World Championship 2025

Season 45 has begun!

[ROAD TO IM] Week 3 - The First Tournament!
Open tournaments
More »Daily Three-check | 1h | 31 | |
Hourly Antichess | 57m | 48 | |
Hourly Horde | 57m | 22 | |
Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 381 | |
≤1700 Rapid | 57m | 156 | |
Hourly Blitz | 57m | 117 | |
≤1300 SuperBlitz | 57m | 62 | |
≤2000 Blitz | 57m | 291 | |
≤1500 Bullet | 27m | 33 | |
Hourly King of the Hill | 27m | ||
Hourly Bullet | 27m | 119 | |
Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 35 |

GM Aditya Mittal won the Almaty Open 2025, ahead of GMs Aleksey Grebnev and Bassem Amin! Aditya qualified through our Lichess online tournament series, held in collaboration with the Kazakhstan Chess Federation. Congratulations!

Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for the final round of the Almaty Open 2025 with our hosts GM Felix Blohberger and WIM Jesse February!

The 7th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th August at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.

Watch Round 8 of the Almaty Open 2025 now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts GM Mitrabha Guha and WIM Jesse February!

Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 7 of the Almaty Open 2025 with our hosts GM Mitrabha Guha and WIM Jesse February!

Our August 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.

Watch Round 6 of the Almaty Open 2025 now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts IM Piotr Nguyen and WIM Jesse February! The joint leaders, GM Bassem Amin and GM Aditya Mittal, face each other on the top board.