Our Game of the Month August Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in August 2025 until 12 September! The winner will be announced on 24 September, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
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GM Pranav Venkatesh won the first edition of the Fujairah Global Superstars 2025 undefeated with 7/9! Watch our winner's interview on YouTube.
GM Wesley So won the Sinquefield Cup 2025! The tournament was decided in a round-robin blitz playoff between tied GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Fabiano Caruana, and Wesley So.
Congrats @CyberShredder on winning the Lichess Game of the Month July 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
Congratulations to team Moon Club for winning the 7th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers @Guary1, GM @FeegLood, GM Thomas Beerdsen, @aloneking1234, GM Shant Sargsyan and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,904 registered players!
Lichess suffered unscheduled downtime between 14:48 UTC and 15:08 UTC. The cause appears to be a crucial server abruptly shutting down due to hardware failure, outside of our control. Things should be stable, but we will be monitoring closely. Unfortunately, we can't refund rating points or restore game positions. We apologise for disruption and inconvenience.
Former World Champion GM Ding Liren was defeated by GM Lu Shanglei in the quarter-finals of the 3rd China Chess King 2025! Follow the remaining rounds of the tournament in our broadcast, featuring GM Yu Yangyi among others.
Congratulations to GM Ediz Gürel for winning our August 2025 Bullet Titled Arena, ahead of GM Daniel Naroditsky, GM Andrew Tang, GM @legendreturns, and GM Haik Martirosyan!
Our August 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.
Never miss your favourite player's games again! You can now follow players to be notified whenever they are live in one of our broadcasts. Just head over to their FIDE page and toggle the follow button. Watch how it works on YouTube!
The first simul for the prize winners of the FIDE Social Chess Day Marathon was held on Lichess today! GM Arjun Erigaisi played against 8 participants and won every game. More simuls with world-class players will follow in the next days.
GM Vincent Keymer won the Chennai Grand Masters 2025! He finished undefeated with 7/9, two points ahead of runner-up GM Anish Giri and 3rd-placed GM Arjun Erigaisi. Replay all the games in our broadcast.
Congratulations to CHESS CLASSROOM for winning our Streamer Arena August 2025! Congrats also to K2N_chess for taking 2nd place, to IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 3rd place, and to Sadistic Minions for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,552 registered players!
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!