GM Vincent Keymer wins the first Chess960 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 event in Weissenhaus! He defeated GM Fabiano Caruana in the final after beating GMs Alireza Firouzja and Magnus Carlsen, who finished 3rd.
Congrats @Druismat on winning the Lichess Game of the Month January 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
GM Vincent Keymer, who defeated GM Magnus Carlsen 1.5 to 0.5 in the semi-finals, will play GM Fabiano Caruana in the final of the Chess960 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Weissenhaus - starting tomorrow at 12:00 UTC. Watch all the remaining games in our broadcast.
Join us and thousands of players for 5 hours of 3+0 Blitz in our Yearly SuperBlitz Arena, starting at 17:00 UTC.
Try our latest puzzle theme addition: the Vuković Mate. Many thanks again to @dirkster99 for helping to implement another new puzzle theme!
Lichess had 31 people contribute code across 15 repositories in January! Check out what's changed in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum thread.
The next high profile Chess960 event is underway! The Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 has started in Weissenhaus, Germany. Follow all the games in our broadcast, featuring the reigning Fischer Random World Champion Hikaru Nakamura and GMs such as Gukesh D, Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and others.
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battles on 17th February at 16:00 UTC and 17th March at 16:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!
Our January 2025 free and open databases are now available for download. Together we played over 100,000,000 rated standard games last month and Antichess crossed 30 million rated games in total!
Our February 1+0 Bullet Shield Arena, the first of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, starts at 16:00 UTC! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.
GM R Praggnanandhaa wins the Tata Steel Masters 2025! He defeated World Champion Gukesh D in the Blitz tiebreak, after both players lost their Classical games in the final round. GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen took 1st place in the Challengers section and qualifies for next year's Masters tournament.
Watch former World Champion Garry Kasparov commentate Round 6 of the Kasparov Chess Foundation University Cup now live on Twitch!
We are now on Kaggle! Use our puzzles, openings, and engine evaluation datasets directly in your Kaggle notebooks.
Our Game of the Month January Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in January 2025 until 5 February! The winner will be announced on 14 February, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
Congratulations to GM José Martínez Alcántara for winning our Blitz Titled Arena February! GM @ARMJoker took 2nd place, ahead of IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján in 3rd place.
Our February 3+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 Blitz Titled Arena.
The 5th Kasparov Chess Foundation University Cup will be played on Lichess between 1 and 2 February. Academic institutions can still register a team until 24 hours before the start of Round 1. The winning team will receive an online training session with the former World Champion Garry Kasparov!
Last rest day of Tata Steel Chess 2025: World Champion Gukesh D is in the sole lead with 7.5/10, followed by GMs Nodirbek Abdusattorov with 7 points and R Praggnanandhaa with 6.5 points. Read our recap of Round 10 and watch the final three rounds in our broadcast, continuing tomorrow at 13:15 UTC.
GM Joel Benjamin defeats @LeelaKnightOdds 4.5 to 3.5 in their exhibition match on Lichess, after taking an early lead with 2 wins in the first 2 games.
The 8-game knight odds match between GM Joel Benjamin and @LeelaKnightOdds, played with a classical time control, just started! Follow it in our broadcast until 27 January and tune in to GM Matthew Sadler's live commentary on YouTube.
Replay all our broadcast games now without spoilers! Turn off the Results toggle on a broadcast tournament page and the results of the games will be hidden - including the moves until you make them on the board. Try it now with the Tata Steel Masters.
First rest day of Tata Steel Chess 2025 after 5 rounds: GMs R Praggnanandhaa and Nodirbek Abdusattorov share the lead in the Masters, while GM Erwin l'Ami is in sole first place in the Challengers section. Read our recap of Round 5 and watch the remaining rounds in our broadcast.
You can now pin up to three of your favourite blog posts to your profile page by enabling the new "Sticky post" option in the blog settings. Many thanks to Yet Another Fred for implementing this feature!
Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning our Streamers Battle January 2025! Congrats also to Moon Club for taking 2nd place, to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 3rd place, and to Sadistic Minions for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,811 registered players!
Our January week of variant Shield Arenas starts at 16:00 UTC with the 3+2 Chess960 Arena! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.