All women players with a FIDE title are welcome to join the online qualifier for the WR Women’s Chess Tour 2026 Asian Leg, featuring Vaishali R, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and Antoaneta Stefanova! The first stage starts on - Find out more in the announcement post by WR Chess.
SC Viernheim won the German Bundesliga 2025/26, securing their second title with a perfect score of 30/30! The team's top scorers include GM Bassem Amin, GM Alexey Sarana, GM Dennis Wagner, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, GM Jorden van Foreest, GM Georg Meier, and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, among others. Replay all the games in our broadcast.
The Greenland Chess Federation is currently holding its first ever official chess championship! Follow all the games of the Greenlandic Championship 2026 on Lichess. The final rounds start at .
Congratulations to GM Oleksandr Bortnyk for winning our Bullet Titled Arena April 2026, ahead of GM @Hooligan64, GM Thomas Beerdsen, GM Artem Uskov, and GM Pranav Venkatesh!
Our April 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Bullet Titled Arena at .
Congratulations to team Moon Club by @MoonWarrior1 for winning the 3rd ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026 Qualifier with top scorers @DuploChess, IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, GM @FeegLood, GM @delta_horsey, and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,926 registered players!
Get ready for our next Streamer Arenas on and , with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, register now.
The Chess Digital League Final, organized by the UAE Chess Federation, is taking place on Lichess right now! The event features a total prize pool of over AED 60,000 (USD 15,000+) for school students in the United Arab Emirates.
We sat down with the one and only GM Viswanathan Anand for a 54-minute interview. The 15th World Champion reflects on his legacy, Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh Dommaraju, the future of chess, and much more! Watch the interview on YouTube.
17-year-old IM Roman Dehtiarov won the European Individual Chess Championship 2026! With a rating of 2452, he is now the lowest-rated player ever to win the event. He gained 46 rating points from his 2781 performance and earned the GM title directly by winning a continental championship.
Congrats @GlasnostPerestroika on winning our 2026 Spring Marathon with a 76% win rate in 479 games, finishing 231 points ahead of runner-up FM Dimitrios Makridis! Thanks to all 21,291 registered players who played a total of 286,975 games and 20,763,129 moves. The next Marathon will take place on .
"We're not creating value for ourselves, we're creating value for the entire chess community." — Thibault Duplessis, our founder and lead developer, on his vision for Lichess, recent projects, the Take Take Take agreement, interests outside of chess, and more! Watch the interview on YouTube.
Congratulations to IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján for winning our Blitz Titled Arena April 2026, ahead of GM Emin Ohanyan, GM José Martínez Alcántara, GM Matthias Blübaum, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk!
Our April 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Blitz Titled Arena at .
Our 2026 Spring Marathon starts on ! Join us and thousands of players for 24 hours of 2+0 Bullet 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.
Mark your calendars for ! Join us on YouTube and Twitch as we recap what we've been up to in the last months, followed by a live Q&A session with our Director of Operations, Theo Wait. Tune in for interviews with our founder and lead developer, Thibault Duplessis, our charity president, Lucas Bonnet, the coordinators from our various departments, and many more!
The 2026 FIDE Candidates Tournaments are over! GM Javokhir Sindarov and GM Vaishali Rameshbabu have been crowned the next challengers for the World Chess Championship and Women's World Chess Championship titles, respectively. Read our final FIDE Candidates Round 14 Recap.
GM Vaishali Rameshbabu wins the FIDE Women's Candidates 2026! She started the tournament as the lowest-rated player and will now challenge GM Ju Wenjun for the Women's World Chess Championship title!
Heading into the final round of the FIDE Candidates 2026, GM Javokhir Sindarov has emerged as the clear winner and will be the next World Championship Challenger. Meanwhile, six players still have a chance to win the Women's Candidates, with GM Bibisara Assaubayeva and GM Vaishali Rameshbabu now tied for 1st place. Read our FIDE Candidates Round 13 Recap and follow the games in our broadcasts on .
GM Javokhir Sindarov wins the FIDE Candidates 2026! The 20-year-old secured 1st place with one round to spare and will challenge the 19-year-old GM Gukesh Dommaraju in the youngest World Chess Championship Match of all time.
It's the final rest day of the FIDE Candidates 2026! GM Javokhir Sindarov needs just one draw in the next two games to become the next World Championship challenger. The Women's Candidates Tournament remains wide open, as GM Vaishali Rameshbabu is tied for 1st place with GM Zhu Jiner, following Zhu's win over Vaishali. Read our FIDE Candidates Round 12 Recap and follow the games in our broadcasts tomorrow, .
The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on ! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.
GM Javokhir Sindarov remains two points ahead of GM Anish Giri in the FIDE Candidates 2026 after holding a tough game against GM Fabiano Caruana, while GM Vaishali Rameshbabu is now one point ahead of GM Anna Muzychuk and GM Zhu Jiner in the Women's Candidates, following her win against GM Aleksandra Goryachkina. Read our FIDE Candidates Round 11 Recap!
The FIDE Candidates 2026 will continue on after the third rest day. With just four games left to play, GM Javokhir Sindarov has once again extended his lead to two points, while in the Women's Candidates, GM Vaishali Rameshbabu is now in sole 1st place. Read our FIDE Candidates Round 10 Recap and follow all the games in our broadcasts.