In just 3 hours, you'll have another chance to play against some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!
Congrats @bayamin on winning the Lichess Game of the Month March 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
Halfway through the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates, we have two clear leaders on the second rest day: Ian Nepomniachtchi and Tan Zhongyi respectively. Read our recap blog to find out what happened in Round 7.
Our March 2024 Standard and Variants databases are available for download: Over 6 million rated King of the Hill games have now been played on Lichess!
Two decisive results in the Open Candidates and all decisive games in the Women's Candidates: We have summarised the action in our Round 6 recap blog.
Gukesh D, who is now tied for 1st place with Ian Nepomniachtchi, and Hikaru Nakamura won their games in Round 5 of the 2024 Candidates, while all 4 games in the Women's Candidates were drawn. Read our recap of Round 5 with annotations from GM Brandon Jacobson and IM / WGM Padmini Rout.
On the first rest day, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Tan Zhongyi are the sole leaders of the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates respectively. Find out what happened in Round 4 in our recap blog.
Tune in to our live streams on YouTube and Twitch for coverage of Round 4 of the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates, the last round before tomorrow's first rest day, with instructive commentary from IM Irene Sukandar on her birthday and GM Matthew Sadler!
The third round of the 2024 Candidates was peaceful compared to yesterday's spectacle, find out what happened in our blog. As usual, we're providing annotations on some of the games from GM Brandon Jacobson and IM / WGM Padmini Rout.
The first brother-sister duo to ever qualify for the Candidates, Praggnanandhaa and Vaishali, both bounced back from their defeats yesterday and scored the only wins in Round 3 of the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates!
Read our recap of an exciting Round 2 in the Candidates, GM Brandon Jacobson and IM / WGM Padmini Rout annotated some of the most interesting games.
All 4 games in Round 2 of the 2024 Candidates Open were decisive! Nepomniachtchi beat Firouzja and Nakamura lost his first classical game since the 2022 Candidates against Vidit. In the Women's Candidates, Tan took another win to have 2/2 and Goryachkina defeated World Cup third-placed A. Muzychuk.
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for our live stream coverage of Round 2 of the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates! Among others, Ian Nepomniachtchi will play against Alireza Firouzja and Aleksandra Goryachkina will face Anna Muzychuk.
Check out our recap of Round 1 of the 2024 FIDE Candidates including annotations for selected games by IM Lasse Løvik!
Day 1 of the 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates ended with 7 draws: The only decisive result of the first round was Zhongyi Tan's victory with the black pieces over 2022-23 Women's Candidates winner and Women's World Championship runner-up Tingjie Lei.
The 2024 Candidates and Women's Candidates to determine the challengers for the next World Championships start at 18:30 UTC in Toronto, Canada! Lichess will stream all 14 rounds on YouTube and Twitch, hosted by IM Irene Sukandar with co-hosts GM Matthew Sadler, IM Eric Rosen, IM Laura Unuk, and many other guests!
Broadcast improvements continued to be a main focus of our development efforts over the past month. See what else our developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog.
Are you ready for the Women's Candidates? Check out this great preview blog by @OnTheQueenside.
Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş achieved his third GM norm in the GRENKE Chess Open and is now the youngest GM in the world and the fourth youngest GM ever at the age of 12 years, 9 months and 29 days! Hans Niemann was the clear winner of the Open, beating Velimir Ivić in the final round and scoring 8/9 points.
Congratulations to IM Mahdi Gholami Orimi for winning the Sharjah Chess Masters online qualifier series, $400 and an invitation to the Sharjah Chess Masters 2024 from 13 to 24 May, with accommodation and full board covered, after defeating GM Boris Savchenko in the Knockouts final!
Magnus Carlsen is the winner of the GRENKE Chess Classic 2024, holding runner-up Richard Rapport to a draw in the final playoff game! Maxime Vachier-Lagrave took 3rd place against Vincent Keymer in the tiebreak, and world champion Ding Liren finished 5th with a 1.5-0.5 victory over Daniel Fridman.