Queens' Online Chess Festival
Announcing the ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026
Declining the Declined Nimzowitsch
In Search of Brilliancies in Chess
Why chess ratings don't mean what they used to
The Caro-Kann series is complete!
Game of the Week 6/52
Fixing the FIDE Women's Grand Prix roster
Atomic Shield
The Lichess Opening Puzzles with games makes them searchable from any position
La Variante Argentina
新しいコマのデザイン「Mockou」を作りました
Les progrès aux échecs: le point de vue d'un senior
A Very Strange Queen Sacrifice
The Queens' Online Chess Festival is a series of online Blitz tournaments and open to all women and girls! The festival is organised by the FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess and will take place on Lichess from 1 to 29 March. Interested players can register now. Find out more in our announcement.
Join us now on YouTube and Twitch for the Bled Chess Festival Qualifiers Finals with our hosts IM Laura Unuk and GM Markus Ragger!
Watch the Bled Chess Festival Qualifiers Semifinals now on YouTube and Twitch with our hosts IM Laura Unuk and GM Markus Ragger! The top 30 players will qualify for the Finals tomorrow. Read more in our announcement.
Congratulations to team Ronaldo Playing Chess by @jack2212 for winning our Streamer Arena February 2026! Congrats also to K2N_chess for taking 2nd place, to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for 3rd place, and to TIM NASIONAL CATUR ONLINE INDONESIA for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,438 registered players!
The $20,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix returns for a new season and will again be held on the 20th of each month at 20:00 UTC from February to December on Lichess! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register for the first Qualifier Arena on .
GM Magnus Carlsen is the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Champion! Carlsen defeated GM Fabiano Caruana 2.5 to 1.5 in the final, while GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov took 3rd place against GM Vincent Keymer.
Get ready for our next Streamer Arena on , 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 and check out our announcement for the schedule of the upcoming Streamer Arenas.