Tournament leader GM Parham Maghsoodloo defeated GM Richard Rapport in Round 5 of the FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 and stays at the top. In the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss, IM Ulviyya Fataliyeva, GM Vaishali Rameshbabu, GM Kateryna Lagno, and IM Dinara Wagner are now tied for 1st place. Read our recap, again with annotations by GM Renier Castellanos and WIM Raluca Sgîrcea!
GM Kateryna Lagno defeated IM Song Yuxin to join GM Vaishali Rameshbabu in the lead of the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss 2025, while GM Parham Maghsoodloo remains in sole 1st place of the Open tournament. Read our recap of Round 4 and check out our annotations by GM Renier Castellanos and WIM Raluca Sgîrcea!
GMs Parham Maghsoodloo and Vaishali Rameshbabu emerged as the sole leaders after Round 3 of the FIDE Grand Swiss and FIDE Women's Grand Swiss 2025, respectively. Read our recap, again with annotations by GM Renier Castellanos and WIM Raluca Sgîrcea!
Congratulations to IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján for winning our September 2025 Chess960 Titled Arena, ahead of GM Arseniy Nesterov, GM Vugar Rasulov, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, and IM Mykola Bortnyk!
Our Chess960 3+2 Warm-up Arena starts at 18:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Chess960 Titled Arena.
After Round 2 of the FIDE Grand Swiss 2025, GMs Anton Domchenko, Alireza Firouzja, and Parham Maghsoodloo are the only players in the Open to have won both of their games. IM Olga Badelka and GM Vaishali Rameshbabu are tied for 1st place in the Women's tournament with 2/2. Check out our recap, again with annotations by GM Renier Castellanos and WIM Raluca Sgîrcea!
The two top seeds of the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss 2025, GM Anna Muzychuk and GM Tan Zhongyi, lost in Round 1, while there have been no upsets on the top 10 boards of the Open tournament. Read our recap with annotations by GM Renier Castellanos and WIM Raluca Sgîrcea!
The FIDE Grand Swiss 2025 starts tomorrow! We will cover every round on our blog with annotations by WIM Raluca Sgîrcea and GM Renier Castellanos. Read our preview and follow all the games of the Open and Women tournaments on Lichess.
Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamer Arenas on 8 September at 15:00 UTC and 13 October at 15:00 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.
Our Game of the Month August Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in August 2025 until 12 September! The winner will be announced on 24 September, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
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GM Pranav Venkatesh won the first edition of the Fujairah Global Superstars 2025 undefeated with 7/9! Watch our winner's interview on YouTube.
GM Wesley So won the Sinquefield Cup 2025! The tournament was decided in a round-robin blitz playoff between tied GMs Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, Fabiano Caruana, and Wesley So.
Congrats @CyberShredder on winning the Lichess Game of the Month July 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
Congratulations to team Moon Club for winning the 7th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers @Guary1, GM @FeegLood, GM Thomas Beerdsen, @aloneking1234, GM Shant Sargsyan and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,904 registered players!
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Former World Champion GM Ding Liren was defeated by GM Lu Shanglei in the quarter-finals of the 3rd China Chess King 2025! Follow the remaining rounds of the tournament in our broadcast, featuring GM Yu Yangyi among others.
Congratulations to GM Ediz Gürel for winning our August 2025 Bullet Titled Arena, ahead of GM Daniel Naroditsky, GM Andrew Tang, GM @legendreturns, and GM Haik Martirosyan!
Our August 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts at 17:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena.
Never miss your favourite player's games again! You can now follow players to be notified whenever they are live in one of our broadcasts. Just head over to their FIDE page and toggle the follow button. Watch how it works on YouTube!
The first simul for the prize winners of the FIDE Social Chess Day Marathon was held on Lichess today! GM Arjun Erigaisi played against 8 participants and won every game. More simuls with world-class players will follow in the next days.
GM Vincent Keymer won the Chennai Grand Masters 2025! He finished undefeated with 7/9, two points ahead of runner-up GM Anish Giri and 3rd-placed GM Arjun Erigaisi. Replay all the games in our broadcast.
Congratulations to CHESS CLASSROOM for winning our Streamer Arena August 2025! Congrats also to K2N_chess for taking 2nd place, to IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 3rd place, and to Sadistic Minions for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,552 registered players!
GM Aditya Mittal won the Almaty Open 2025, ahead of GMs Aleksey Grebnev and Bassem Amin! Aditya qualified through our Lichess online tournament series, held in collaboration with the Kazakhstan Chess Federation. Congratulations!
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for the final round of the Almaty Open 2025 with our hosts GM Felix Blohberger and WIM Jesse February!