Watch Round 3 of the Sharjah Masters 2024 with us and our host IM Irene Sukandar now on YouTube and Twitch! Top seed GM Arjun Erigaisi will try to bounce back with a win over GM Nikolozi Kachavara after his surprising loss to GM Nikolas Theodorou yesterday, who plays GM Hans Moke Niemann this round.

Enable the keyboard input option and play by typing moves in standard algebraic notation. This now works not only in games and puzzles, but also in analysis and studies!

Round 2 of the Sharjah Masters 2024 is about to start, with GM Vasyl Ivanchuk taking on GM M. Amin Tabatabaei among others! Join us and our host IM Irene Sukandar for commentary on YouTube and Twitch.

Our April 2024 free and open databases are available for download, bringing the total number of games now to over 5.5 billion in standard chess and 114 million across variants!

The Sharjah Masters 2024 kicks off tomorrow with GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Parham Maghsoodloo, Yu Yangyi and others. We will be streaming the event with commentary by our host IM Irene Sukandar on Twitch and YouTube from 13:00 UTC tomorrow and 11:00 UTC the following days until 22 May!

Congrats @PrydunAndrii2004 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month April 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

GM Magnus Carlsen has won the 2024 Superbet Poland, overtaking and beating GM Wei Yi on the final day of blitz! World Championship challenger GM Gukesh D finished in last place.