Our 2025 Winter Marathon starts at midnight UTC! Join us and thousands of players for 24 hours of 5+3 Blitz and be part of one of the biggest chess tournaments in history. The top 500, top 100, top 50, top 10 and the winner will all get a unique trophy.

Congrats @Ben2020Tor on winning the Lichess Game of the Month November 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

After the first day of the FIDE World Rapid Championships 2025, GM Magnus Carlsen, GM Arjun Erigaisi, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, GM Vladislav Artemiev, and GM Gukesh D are tied for first place on 4.5/5. In the Women's tournament, GM Zhu Jiner is in the sole lead on a perfect 4/4. Read our Day 1 recap and check out our player interviews on YouTube.

The FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships 2025 will take place from 26 to 30 December! The best in the world, including GM Magnus Carlsen in the Open and GM Ju Wenjun in the Women's event, will compete for the World Championship titles and a prize fund of over €1 million. Read our preview, follow the games in our broadcasts, and check out our YouTube channel for interviews with the players on-site by IM Laura Unuk.

If you are playing with an eBoard on Lichess, please note that the board software must use our official Board API. Otherwise, your account may be banned for violating our Fair Play rules. Read more about using eBoards with Lichess and how to tell if you're not using our official API here.

Did you know that you gain more and lose fewer rating points for results with the black pieces on Lichess? To account for White's first-move advantage, a standard game between, for example, a 1500-rated player with White and a 1511-rated player with Black is treated as a balanced game.

The $10,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Final is about to start at 20:00 UTC! More than 2,000 players have already signed up, including 54 grandmasters and 253 titled players in total. Choose your team and join the arena for two hours of 3+2 Blitz.