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Announcing maiachess.com
2026 Candidates: Everything You Need to Know
Ståhlberg's Losing Streak in Zürich 1953
Lichess4545 Season 47 Finale: No pressure, Just the Entire Season on the Line
I created a repertoire, learned how to play, played games... What now?
Chess in Serbia: Belgrade Premier League
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Join us in celebrating 47 successful Lichess4545 seasons in the faster 15+15 Season 48 Kick-off Arena on ! Lichess4545 has over 800 active members and hundreds of games played on a weekly basis.
Congrats @Boggled_Toggo on winning the Lichess Game of the Month February 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
Got a question for the candidates? Lichess will do pre-event interviews with Fabiano Caruana, Wei Yi, Javokhir Sindarov, Matthias Bluebaum, Tan Zhongyi and Vaishali R! Share your questions in this forum post, and some might make it to the interviews!
Congratulations to team Super monster Knights by @anuhas_dharana_2010 for winning the 2nd ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026 Qualifier with top scorers GM Andy Woodward, @Kunyavka, IM Toivo Keinänen, IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 2,562 registered players!
One hundred women and girls have qualified for the Queens' Online Chess Festival Semi-Final! Watch all the games in our broadcast, starting today, . The top eight players will advance to the final on . Read more about the event in our announcement.
Congratulations to team K2N_chess by FM Konstantin Kostin for winning our Streamer Arena March 2026! Congrats also to Ronaldo Playing Chess for taking 2nd place, to The United Royal Legion for 3rd place, and to Шустрий кабан for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,484 registered players!
Congratulations to GM @legendreturns for winning our Blitz Titled Arena March 2026, ahead of FM Havard Haug, CM @innocentguy, IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk!
Open tournaments
More »| Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 652 | |
| ≤2000 Blitz | 57m | 334 | |
| Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 471 | |
| Hourly Crazyhouse | 57m | 41 | |
| Hourly King of the Hill | 57m | 28 | |
| Hourly Blitz | 57m | 203 | |
| ≤1300 SuperBlitz | 57m | 79 | |
| ≤1700 Rapid | 57m | 240 | |
| ≤1500 Bullet | 27m | ||
| Hourly Racing Kings | 27m | ||
| Hourly Antichess | 27m | ||
| Hourly Bullet | 27m | ||
| Hourly Three-check | 27m | ||
| Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | ||
| Titled Arena Warm-up March '26 | 1h 50m | 284 | |
| Titled Arena March '26 | 2h | 93 |