642. Lichess Bundesliga500+ teams and 4000+ playersStreamer Arena April '26Whose call will you answer?449 players • Three-check Shield ArenaBattle for the Three-check Shield219 players • 
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The Greenland Chess Federation is currently holding its first ever official chess championship! Follow all the games of the Greenlandic Championship 2026 on Lichess. The final rounds start at .
Congratulations to GM Oleksandr Bortnyk for winning our Bullet Titled Arena April 2026, ahead of GM @Hooligan64, GM Thomas Beerdsen, GM Artem Uskov, and GM Pranav Venkatesh!
Our April 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 Moon Club by @MoonWarrior1 for winning the 3rd ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026 Qualifier with top scorers @DuploChess, IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, GM @FeegLood, GM @delta_horsey, and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,926 registered players!
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.
The Chess Digital League Final, organized by the UAE Chess Federation, is taking place on Lichess right now! The event features a total prize pool of over AED 60,000 (USD 15,000+) for school students in the United Arab Emirates.
We sat down with the one and only GM Viswanathan Anand for a 54-minute interview. The 15th World Champion reflects on his legacy, Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh Dommaraju, the future of chess, and much more! Watch the interview on YouTube.
Open tournaments
More »| Three-check Shield | 6h | 219 | |
| Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 820 | |
| Weekly UltraBullet | 2h | 175 | |
| Hourly Antichess | 57m | 64 | |
| ≤1500 Bullet | 27m | 28 | |
| Hourly Atomic | 57m | 58 | |
| ≤2000 Blitz | 57m | 194 | |
| Hourly Chess960 | 57m | 49 | |
| Hourly Bullet | 27m | 321 | |
| Hourly Racing Kings | 57m | 32 | |
| Daily SuperBlitz | 1h 30m | 702 | |
| Hourly Blitz | 57m | 254 | |
| ≤1700 Rapid | 57m | 171 | |
| ≤1300 SuperBlitz | 57m | 51 | |
| Elite Bullet | 1h 30m | 190 | |
| Streamer Arena April '26 | 2h | 449 |