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.
Congratulations to team CHESS CLASSROOM for winning the 10th and final ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers GM Haik Martirosyan, IM Jakub Pulpan, GM Mitrabha Guha, and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,388 registered players!
GM Wei Yi and GM Javokhir Sindarov advanced to the Finals of the FIDE World Cup 2025 and qualified for the Candidates! GM Andrey Esipenko and GM Nodirbek Yakubboev will play for another Candidates spot in their 3rd place match. Read our recap, watch our interviews on YouTube, and follow the Finals in our broadcast at 09:45 UTC!
The Hindu newspaper interviewed our Director of Operations, Theo Wait: "We want to keep Lichess completely free, and say no to ads as well. There have been offers to buy out Lichess, but we are not for sale." Check out the free version of the article on The Hindu newspaper's website.
We have launched two new team leagues! The Lichess Rapid League is held every Monday at 17:00 UTC and the Lichess Bullet League is held every Wednesday at 18:00 UTC. Read more in our announcement.
GM Wei Yi, GM Javokhir Sindarov, GM Andrey Esipenko, and GM Nodirbek Yakubboev are through to the Semifinals of the FIDE World Cup 2025! Read our recap, watch our interviews on YouTube, and follow all the games in our broadcast. The tournament will continue on 21 November at 09:45 UTC, after tomorrow's rest day.
You may experience issues on Lichess due to a Cloudflare outage since 11:48 UTC. According to Cloudflare, "a fix has been implemented" and they "believe the incident is now resolved". We apologize for the inconvenience and will continue to monitor the situation.
Check out our new puzzle theme: the Balestra Mate. Read about how we identify these patterns from our puzzles database in the blog post by @dirkster99 and get involved.
GM Alexander Donchenko won a tense match against GM Lê Quang Liêm in Round 5 of the FIDE World Cup 2025 to advance to the Quarterfinals! Among others, top seeds GM Arjun Erigaisi and GM Wei Yi will face each other in the next round. Read our recap, watch our interviews on YouTube, and follow the games in our broadcast at 09:45 UTC.
Congratulations to K2N_chess for winning our Streamer Arena November 2025! Congrats also to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for taking 2nd place, to Chess City Team for 3rd place, and to ChessExpertsTeam for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,316 registered players!
GM Daniil Dubov defeated GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu in Round 4 of the FIDE World Cup 2025, while GM Vincent Keymer, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and GM Matthias Blübaum were eliminated as well. Read our recap, watch our interviews on YouTube, and follow all the games of Round 5 in our broadcast at 09:45 UTC.
The 10th and final ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th November at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.
Researchers at Google DeepMind used our free puzzle database and reinforcement learning to train a model to generate creative chess puzzles. Read more on this in the blog by Tom Zahavy from the DeepMind discovery team and try to solve the puzzles yourself in the Lichess study!
GM Frederik Svane eliminated World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in Round 3 of the FIDE World Cup 2025, as GM Anish Giri and GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov are also out of the tournament. Read our recap, check out our interviews on YouTube, and watch all the games of Round 4 in our broadcast at 09:45 UTC.
Broadcast player search is now available on our new mobile app! Find your favourite player's game with the search bar on top of the boards page. Watch our YouTube video to see how it works!
Thank you to all 12,205 players who joined our Memorial Arena for GM Daniel Naroditsky. Today would have been Danya's 30th birthday. We will remember him for his passion and inspiration, as one of the brightest advocates for chess.
Congratulations to GM Sergei Zhigalko for winning our Blitz Titled Arena November 2025, ahead of IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, IM Reza Mahdavi, GM Brandon Jacobson, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk!
Our November 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts in less than two hours at 19:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.
We invite you to join us tomorrow at 15:00 UTC for a bullet arena in memory of GM Daniel Naroditsky, known on Lichess as @RebeccaHarris. November 9 would have been his 30th birthday.