Crazyhouse960 Championship 2025 Announcement

Announcing the Crazyhouse960 Championship 2025 — with Prizes!

This is a side event held alongside the ongoing Crazyhouse World Championship 2025.

This post covers the rules, format, prizes, and eligibility.

Format

The entire event — including all stages — will take place on our partner site, Pychess.org, since Lichess currently does not support Crazyhouse960.

There will be two Qualifier Arenas, and the Top 2 players from each Arena will advance to the Semi-Finals.

• Arena duration: 3 hours

• Time control: 3+2 rated

• Qualifier 1:

  • Date: 22 November, 17:00 UTC

  • Link: https://www.pychess.org/tournament/C5rYaivN

• Qualifier 2: Date to be announced

Semi-Finals

The four qualifiers will play a Single-Elimination Knockout.

• Match format: Best of 10 games, 5+5 rated Crazyhouse960

• Tiebreaks: Mini-matches (best of 2) with 3+2 time control

You can follow the bracket here:

https://challonge.com/2025zh960

Prizes

Placement | Prize (€)

• Winner of the event: €30
• Runner-Up: €20
• 3rd Place: €15
• 4th Place: €10

Total Prize Fund: €75 (Guaranteed by the organisers)

Eligibility

To qualify from the Arenas, players must:

• Join using their main Lichess account; and

• Have played at least 50 rated Crazyhouse games on Lichess before 22 November 2025.

(Simply log in to PyChess using your Lichess account — when prompted, authorize PyChess to connect with Lichess. Accounts registered directly on PyChess are not eligible for the Semi-Finals.)

Prize Distribution

All prizes will be distributed together with those of CWC 2025, from the same CWC Prize Fund.
You can contribute to the prize pool here: https://tiltify.com/@lichess/personal/cwc-2025-prize-fund

All games will be monitored by PyChess for fair play. Any fair play violations will result in immediate disqualification, and all such decisions are final. The same Terms of Service and fair play rules that apply on Lichess also apply to this event.

Good luck to all players!

(Simply log in to PyChess using your Lichess account — when prompted, authorize PyChess to connect with Lichess. Accounts registered directly on PyChess are not eligible for the Semi-Finals.)

Further clarification:
Non-Lichess accounts (logged in using lishogi/google/discord) are not eligible for the Semi-Finals.

Also NOTE that starting time for the Qualifier Arena 1 is 22 November, 18:00 UTC and NOT 17:00 UTC as the initial post says.

Can I join@##$

Qualifiers Stage has now been officially completed.

As announced in the initial bracket, the Winner of Qualifier 1 will face the 2nd place finisher of Qualifier 2, and the Winner of Qualifier 2 will face the 2nd place finisher of Qualifier 1.

Based on the results of -
Q1: (https://www.pychess.org/tournament/C5rYaivN)
Q2: (https://www.pychess.org/tournament/2AvNSn8U) -,
the Semi-Final pairings are as follows:

@visualdennis – @pknm
@fumitoks – @crazy_eight

Bracket: https://challonge.com/2025zh960

Schedule

Semi-Finals:
To be scheduled and completed between 08.12–14.12.

Final & 3rd Place Match:
To be completed between 15.12–21.12.

Prizes:
Placement | Prize (€)

Winner of the event: €30
Runner-Up: €20
3rd Place: €15
4th Place: €10

Good luck to all participants!

Nice event. Speedy time control incoming (5+5 best of ten). I'm down for a few zh960 sessions against 2400+ zh players on lichess. Feel free to message me on lichess! GLHF buddies @fumitoks @pknm @visualdennis

@Crazy_Eight - @Fumitoks to be played tomorrow at 18:00 UTC

@visualdennis - @pknm is scheduled to 12 December, at 18:37 UTC.

c8-fumi 6-3

vd - pknm 5-7

@Crazy_Eight - @pknm Finals to be played this upcoming 19:30 UTC - Monday, 15/12/25. Have a great week, blessings.