While most of the favourites won their matches in Round 1 of the FIDE World Cup 2025, IM Wang Shixu upset GM Leon Luke Mendonca, and IM Faustino Oro prevailed against GM Ante Brkić. Read our recap and watch Round 2 now in our broadcast.
Our Game of the Month October Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in October 2025 until 12 November! The winner will be announced on 24 November, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
The FIDE World Cup 2025 takes place in Goa, India, from 1–26 November, and starts at 09:30 UTC! With a prize fund of $2,000,000 and three Candidates spots up for grabs, the knockout tournament is one of the highlights this year. Check out our preview, including simulated predictions, and watch all the games in our broadcast.
2,102 Halloween Gambits were played on Lichess last Halloween, according to our free and open database! Celebrate with our thematic 3+0 Halloween Gambit Arena, starting at 22:00 UTC.
GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown, ahead of GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Hikaru Nakamura, and World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju! Replay all the games in our broadcast.
Congrats @Ze-Prodigy on winning the Lichess Game of the Month September 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana are playing in the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown until 29 October! Watch all the games in our broadcast.
Congrats GM Mahdi Gholami Orimi on winning our 2025 Autumn Marathon with a 57% win rate in 357 games, finishing 63 points ahead of 2nd placed CM Maxim Snigurov! Thanks to all 21,022 registered players who played a total of 177,410 games and 12,339,294 moves.
Congratulations to GM Ediz Gürel for winning our Bullet Titled Arena October 2025, ahead of GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, GM Minh Lê, GM Haik Martirosyan, and CM Daniil Rakitin.
Join our October 1+0 Warm-up Arena, starting at 17:00 UTC. Play against some of the titled players before they enter the Bullet Titled Arena.
In memory of GM Daniel Naroditsky (1995 - 2025), known on Lichess as @RebeccaHarris.
Our 2025 Autumn Marathon starts in just two hours at midnight UTC! Join us and thousands of players for 24 hours of 3+2 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.
Congratulations to team Super monster Knights for winning the 9th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers GM Mamikon Gharibyan, IM @doughnut42, GM Mitrabha Guha, IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, CM Daniil Rakitin and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,719 registered players!
We are deeply saddened to hear of the untimely passing of GM Daniel Naroditsky. Danya had a deep passion for chess and a rare gift for inspiring that love of the game in others. Our thoughts are with his family, friends and his many fans at this time.
The European Chess Club Cup 2025 in Rhodes, Greece has started! Top players like GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Wei Yi and Richard Rapport in the Open tournament, and GMs Divya Deshmukh, Nana Dzagnidze and Mariya Muzychuk in the Women's tournament, will compete with their teams every day from 19 to 25 October. Watch all the games in our broadcasts.
Congratulations to K2N_chess for winning our Streamer Arena October 2025! Congrats also to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for taking 2nd place, to Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for 3rd place, and to IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,798 registered players!
The 9th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier Arena - again featuring a $1,000 prize fund - will be held on 20th October at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.
Learn chess strategy from the ground up with the Morphy Simulator by @NoseKnowsAll! The study is aimed at beginner to intermediate players and covers opening principles, middlegame strategy, endgame fundamentals, and more - all through the games and moves of the legendary Paul Morphy.
Congratulations to IM @doughnut42 for winning our Blitz Titled Arena October 2025, ahead of IM Dimitris Alexakis, GM @chessmaster2006, GM Bardiya Daneshvar, and CM Daniil Rakitin!
Our October 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.
We have announced the schedule for our remaining Titled Arenas this year - as usual, each arena has a total prize fund of $1,000 and will be preceded by a Warm-up Arena open to all players.
GM Garry Kasparov won against GM Vishy Anand in Game 3 of Clutch Chess: The Legends! Kasparov now leads the Chess960 match between the two legends by one point after the first day. Follow the remaining eight games in our broadcast until 10 October.
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamer Arenas on 13 October at 15:00 UTC and 10 November at 16:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, see here.
The FIDE World Corporate Chess Championship 2025 online qualifiers and knockout stage will be played on Lichess from 11 to 18 October. The top 8 teams will advance to the finals in Goa, India, from 14 to 16 November. Companies can register a team up to 48 hours before the qualifiers. Read the full announcement for more information.
Our Game of the Month September Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in September 2025 until 12 October! The winner will be announced on 24 October, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
The FIDE World Cadet Chess Championships 2025 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, have ended! The new world champions are CM Danis Kuandykuly (U12), Lacey Wang (Girls' U12), Yuan Shunzhe (U10), WCM Sharvaanica A S (Girls' U10), Adinur Adilbek (U8) and Alisha Bissaliyeva (Girls' U8). Replay all the games in our broadcasts.