FIDE World Cup R3: Vachier-Lagrave Wins Thriller, Gukesh Eliminated
Weekly Reflection- Reflecting on a tragedy that shook the chess world
How the World Cup Format impacts Results
What Will Become of Humanity?
AI-Generated Chess Puzzles
Spaced repetition opening moves - a good idea, or a really bad one?
CHECKMATES WITH UNBELIEVABLE NUMBER OF MOVES
Logistic Growth of Chess
The Power of Will Power
Open tournaments
More »| Petrov's Defense Rapid | 1h 57m | 537 | |
| Hourly Antichess | 57m | 116 | |
| Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 850 | |
| Hourly Three-check | 57m | 73 | |
| Hourly Blitz | 57m | 514 | |
| ≤1500 Blitz | 57m | 281 | |
| ≤1300 Rapid | 57m | 192 | |
| ≤1700 SuperBlitz | 57m | 379 | |
| ≤2000 Bullet | 27m | 144 | |
| Hourly Chess960 | 27m | 33 | |
| Hourly Bullet | 27m | 209 | |
| Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 74 | |
| Daily Bullet | 1h | ||
| Weekly Blitz | 3h | 40 |
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.