Our Game of the Month April Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in April 2024 until 5 May! The winner will be announced one week after the deadline, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
IM Ulviyya Fataliyeva has won the European Women's Chess Championship 2024! A draw in the final round against GM Nino Batsiashvili was enough to secure the title undefeated with 8.5/10. IMs Nataliya Buksa and Lela Javakhishvili finished 2nd and 3rd respectively with 7.5 points on tiebreak criteria.
Vote for the People's Choice Excellence on Boards Award by the ECU Women's Commision for the next 7 hours! Take a look at the 27 selected games in this study and submit your two favourites in the Google Form. Watch the final round of the European Women's Chess Championship 2024 play out on Lichess.
Congratulations to GM Alireza Firouzja for winning the Titled Arena April '24! Runner-up GM Daniel Naroditsky was just 4 points behind and third place went to GM Andrew Tang, who finished the tournament with 7 berserked wins in a row!
In 2 hours, you will have the chance again to face some of the titled players in our 1+0 Bullet Warm-up Arena before they enter the Titled Arena!
Want to learn and practise chessboard coordinates intuitively? We have the perfect solution: Voice recognition in our Coordinates Trainer! Select "Name square" and click the voice recognition button at the bottom to get started.
Hear all about Lichess from our Director of Operations, Theo Wait, in ChessBase India's recent interview!
Gukesh has won the 2024 Candidates in a dramatic finale, and is officially the new World Championship Challenger! More updates to come in our blog.
Tan Zhongyi has won the 2024 Women's Candidates and will challenge Ju Wenjun for the Women's World Championship!
Join us and our hosts IMs Irene Sukandar, Laura Unuk and Eric Rosen for Round 14 of the Candidates now on Twitch and YouTube! With 17-year-old Gukesh in the lead of the Open, 4 players still in contention to win and all of them playing each other, today could be historic!
Watch Round 13 of the Candidates with us and our hosts IMs Irene Sukandar and Laura Unuk now on Twitch and YouTube! Get ready for a pivotal game in the three-way tied Open between leaders Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hikaru Nakamura & Tan Zhongyi vs Aleksandra Goryachkina in the Women's section among others.
The final rest day of the Open and Women's Candidates is over: Check out our Round 12 recap blog with annotations from GM Brandon Jacobson and IM / WGM Padmini Rout ahead of the penultimate round, which starts at 18:45 UTC today.
The European Women Chess Championship kicks off in less than 5 minutes in Rhodes, Greece, with 182 players from 35 countries participating! You can follow the games here.
With just 3 rounds to go, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Tan Zhongyi are back in the sole lead of the Open and Women's Candidates, respectively. Find out what happened in Round 11 of the Candidates in our recap blog.
Our Yearly Rapid Arena has started! Join us and thousands of players for 8 hours of 10+0 rapid chess.
Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana bounced back, while Lei Tingjie now shares first place with Tan Zhongyi: Read what happened in Round 10 of the Candidates in our recap blog.
Vidit Gujrathi's second win over Hikaru Nakamura in the Open Candidates and Tan Zhongyi is back in the sole lead of the Women's Candidates: Find out what happened in Round 9 in our recap blog.
Gukesh D defeated Vidit Gujrathi to tie for 1st place again, Hikaru Nakamura beat Fabiano Caruana and clear leader Tan Zhongyi lost to Lei Tingjie: Read what happened in Round 8 of the Open and Women's Candidates in our recap blog with annotations from GM Brandon Jacobson and IM / WGM Padmini Rout.
Congratulations to GM Nihal Sarin for winning the Blitz Titled Arena April '24 with an outstanding lead of 39 points over runner-up GM Jose Martinez Alcantara, followed by IM Renato Alfredo Terry Lujan in third place!
Happy Birthday, Garry Kasparov! The World Champion from 1985 to 2000 and undoubtedly one of the best chess players in history turned 61 today.
In just 3 hours, you'll have another chance to play against some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!