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Congratulations to GM Nihal Sarin for winning our Bullet Titled Arena November 2025, ahead of GM Emin Ohanyan, GM Pranav V, IM Matvey Galchenko, and FM Artem Bardyk!
The November 1+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 Bullet Titled Arena.
Our new Triangle Mate puzzle theme is now available! Read more about the theme and related patterns in the blog post by @dirkster99.
Congrats @Panikin_Skywalker on winning the Lichess Game of the Month October 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
GM Javokhir Sindarov won the FIDE World Cup 2025, defeating GM Wei Yi in the rapid tiebreaks! Read our final recap and check out the annotations by IM Nitish Belurkar for 20 of the most important World Cup games.
GM Andrey Esipenko defeated GM Nodirbek Yakubboev in the 3rd place match of the FIDE World Cup 2025, joining finalists GM Wei Yi and GM Javokhir Sindarov at the Candidates! The Final will be decided in the tiebreaks, starting at 09:35 UTC. Follow the games in our broadcast and watch our interview with GM Andrey Esipenko.
We have updated our API documentation! It is now much faster, has new helpful features, with sample code in almost 40 programming languages, and makes testing and debugging much easier. Check it out in our video on YouTube.