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Our May 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Bullet Titled Arena at .
Congratulations to team The United Royal Legion by @TheoLego for winning our Streamer Arena May 2026! Congrats also to TIM NASIONAL CATUR ONLINE INDONESIA for taking 2nd place, to K2N_chess for 3rd place, and to ChessExpertsTeam for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,433 registered players!
All women players with a FIDE title are welcome to join the online qualifier for the WR Women’s Chess Tour 2026 Americas Leg! The first stage starts on . Find out more in the announcement by WR Chess.
Congratulations to IM Anna M. Sargsyan for winning the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Asia Online Qualifier on Lichess and qualifying for the $40,000 over-the-board event in Tokyo, Japan! Sargsyan defeated WFM Shubhi Gupta in the finals, while IM Alua Nurman took 3rd place against WIM Pandey Srishti.
The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on ! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.
Get ready for our next Streamer Arenas on and , 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.
Faustino Oro achieved his third and final GM norm at the Sardinia World Chess Festival 2026, becoming the second-youngest grandmaster of all time at the age of 12 years, 6 months and 26 days! The record is still held by GM Abhimanyu Mishra, who was 2 months and 1 day younger than Oro.
Open tournaments
More »| Horde Shield | 6h | 57 | |
| Hourly Atomic | 57m | 99 | |
| ≤1500 Rapid | 57m | 151 | |
| Hourly Crazyhouse | 57m | 59 | |
| Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | 604 | |
| Hourly King of the Hill | 57m | 38 | |
| ≤1700 Blitz | 57m | 175 | |
| Hourly Chess960 | 57m | 37 | |
| Hourly Blitz | 57m | 313 | |
| Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 340 | |
| ≤2000 SuperBlitz | 57m | 144 | |
| Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | ||
| ≤1300 Bullet | 27m | ||
| Hourly Bullet | 27m | ||
| Titled Arena Warm-up May '26 | 1h 50m | 700 | |
| Elite SuperBlitz | 2h | ||
| Weekly HyperBullet | 2h | ||
| Titled Arena May '26 | 2h | 79 |