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.
Our new mobile app is officially released! It is now available for download on Google Play and the App Store. Read more about it on our blog.
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 5 of the Almaty Open 2025 with our hosts GM Mitrabha Guha and WIM Jesse February! GM Aditya Mittal, who qualified through Lichess, is the sole leader and plays GM S. L. Narayanan.
Watch Round 4 of the Almaty Open 2025 on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts GM Mitrabha Guha and WIM Jesse February! Top seed GM Bassem Amin plays current joint leader IM S Rohith Krishna and GM Aram Hakobyan faces GM Mihail Nikitenko, among others.
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for Round 3 of the Almaty Open 2025 with our hosts IM Laura Unuk and WIM Jesse February!
Watch Round 2 of the Almaty Open 2025 now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts IM Laura Unuk and WIM Jesse February!
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamer Arenas on 11 August at 15:00 UTC and 8 September 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.
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts WIM Jesse February and IM Laura Unuk for the first round of the Almaty Open 2025! GMs Bassem Amin, Aram Hakobyan, Maxim Matlakov, Brandon Jacobson and many others compete for the total prize fund of $100,000.
Your donations and support have allowed us to do many awesome things this half-year that we hope you enjoy! We will continue to work hard to give you the best free, libre, and open-source chess experience. Read our Half-Year Update 2025 to see how we have changed for the better.
Congrats @Fritzi_2003 on winning our 2025 Summer Marathon with a 65% win rate in 890 games, finishing 196 points ahead of 2nd placed @BrightFalcon! Thanks to all 22,405 registered users who played a total of 475,480 games and 34,063,804 moves.
The 2025 Summer Marathon starts at midnight UTC! Join us and thousands of players for 24 hours of 1+0 Bullet 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.
Our Game of the Month July Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in July 2025 until 12 August! The winner will be announced on 24 August, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
IM Divya Deshmukh won the FIDE Women's World Cup 2025! She has qualified for the next Women's Candidates Tournament, earned the GM title, and will take home $50,000! Runner-up GM Koneru Humpy was beaten in the final tiebreaks, but has also secured a spot in the next Women's Candidates Tournament!
GM Tan Zhongyi beat GM Lei Tingjie to take 3rd place in the FIDE Women's World Cup and qualify for the next Women's Candidates Tournament! Finalists IM Divya Deshmukh and GM Koneru Humpy drew both of their classical games and the winner will be decided in the tiebreaks, starting at 08:00 UTC.
The first game of the FIDE Women's World Cup finals between IM Divya Deshmukh and GM Koneru Humpy ended in a draw. Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for the second game with our hosts WIM Jesse February and WCM Katharina Reinecke!
Congratulations to GM Ediz Gürel for winning our Bullet Titled Arena, ahead of GM Andrew Tang, GM Sergei Zhigalko, IM Artem Uskov, and GM @FeegLood!
Join us in celebrating 44 successful Lichess4545 seasons in the faster 15+15 Kick-off Arena at 22:45 UTC! Lichess4545 has over 700 active members and hundreds of games played on a weekly basis. Here's to a fantastic and numerically significant Season 45 of Lichess4545!
Congrats @RejectedQuadratic on winning the Lichess Game of the Month June 2025! Thank you all for your countless submissions!
Our July 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 17:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena.