Our Game of the Month July Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in July 2024 until 5 August! The winner will be announced on 14 August, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

The FIDE 100 World Record attempt for the most chess games played worldwide online and offline in one day was successful! Together we contributed 1,117,345 eligible games out of a total of 2,958,024 rated games played on Lichess during the 24 hours!

Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Titled Arena July 2024 in a very close finish, just one point ahead of GM Alireza Firouzja! GM Nihal Sarin came in 3rd, losing his final game against eventual winner Naroditsky.

Our next 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 4 hours! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!

For the third year in a row, GM Liêm Quang Lê has won the Biel Masters, ahead of GMs Haik Martirosyan and R Praggnanandhaa. GM Salem Saleh came out on top of the first ever Biel Challengers tournament.

Today, Wednesday 24th July, Lichess will undergo scheduled maintenance between 02:00 and 03:00 UTC. We apologise for any inconvenience.

The last stage of the Biel Masters has started! GMs R Praggnanandhaa, Liêm Quang Lê, Abhimanyu Mishra and Haik Martirosyan are competing in a final round-robin tournament until 25 July, while the winner of the Challengers will be decided between GMs Salem Saleh, Alexander Donchenko and R Vaishali.