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.