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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 1d

Our Game of the Month October Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in October 2025 until 12 November! The winner will be announced on 24 November, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 3d

The FIDE World Cup 2025 takes place in Goa, India, from 1–26 November, and starts at 09:30 UTC! With a prize fund of $2,000,000 and three Candidates spots up for grabs, the knockout tournament is one of the highlights this year. Check out our previe...

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 3d

2,102 Halloween Gambits were played on Lichess last Halloween, according to our free and open database!

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 5d

GM Magnus Carlsen won the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown, ahead of GM Fabiano Caruana, GM Hikaru Nakamura, and World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju! Replay all the games in our broadcast.

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats @Ze-Prodigy on winning the Lichess Game of the Month September 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 7d

World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju and GMs Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana are playing in the 2025 Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown until 29 October! Watch all the games in our broadcast.

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats GM Mahdi Gholami Orimi on winning our 2025 Autumn Marathon with a 57% win rate in 357 games, finishing 63 points ahead of 2nd placed CM Maxim Snigurov! Thanks to all 21,022 registered players who played a total of 177,410 games and 12,339,2...

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations to GM Ediz Gürel for winning our Bullet Titled Arena October 2025, ahead of GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, GM Minh Lê, GM Haik Martirosyan, and CM Daniil Rakitin.

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 9d

Join our October 1+0 Warm-up Arena, starting at 17:00 UTC. Play against some of the titled players before they enter the Bullet Titled Arena.
In memory of GM Daniel Naroditsky (1995 - 2025), known on Lichess as @RebeccaHarris.

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 10d

Our 2025 Autumn Marathon starts in just two hours at midnight UTC! Join us and thousands of players for 24 hours of 3+2 Blitz and be part of one of the biggest chess tournaments in history. The top 500, top 100, top 50, top 10 and the winner will al...

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations to team Super monster Knights for winning the 9th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier with top scorers GM Mamikon Gharibyan, IM @doughnut42, GM Mitrabha Guha, IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, CM Daniil Rakitin and many others! Thanks ...

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 15d

The European Chess Club Cup 2025 in Rhodes, Greece has started! Top players like GMs Arjun Erigaisi, Wei Yi and Richard Rapport in the Open tournament, and GMs Divya Deshmukh, Nana Dzagnidze and Mariya Muzychuk in the Women's tournament, will compet...

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 17d

Congratulations to for winning our ! Congrats also to for taking 2nd place, to for 3rd place, and to for 4th place. Thanks to all participating and 1,798 registered players!K2N_chessStreamer Arena October 2025IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDSZhigalko_Serge...

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 19d

Our October 3+0 starts at 18:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter the .Warm-up ArenaBlitz Titled Arena

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 25d

We have announced the schedule for our remaining Titled Arenas this year - as usual, each arena has a total prize fund of $1,000 and will be preceded by a Warm-up Arena open to all players.

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 26d

GM Garry Kasparov won against GM Vishy Anand in Game 3 of Clutch Chess: The Legends! Kasparov now leads the Chess960 match between the two legends with one point after the first day. Follow the remaining eight games in our broadcast until 10 October.

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 26d

Streamers and communities, get ready for the next Streamer Arenas on 13 October at 15:00 UTC and 10 November at 16:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, see he...

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · 28d

The FIDE World Corporate Chess Championship 2025 online qualifiers and knockout stage will be played on Lichess from 11 to 18 October. The top 8 teams will advance to the finals in Goa, India, from 14 to 16 November. Companies can register a team up...

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · Oct 4

Our Game of the Month September Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in September 2025 until 12 October! The winner will be announced on 24 October, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · Oct 4

Our Game of the Month September Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in September 2025 until 12 October! The winner will be announced on 24 October, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · Oct 1

The FIDE World Cadet Chess Championships 2025 in Almaty, Kazakhstan, have ended! The new world champions are CM Danis Kuandykuly (U12), Lacey Wang (Girls' U12), Yuan Shunzhe (U10), WCM Sharvaanica A S (Girls' U10), Adinur Adilbek (U8) and Alisha Bis...

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · Sep 30

Together, we have now played over 7 billion rated standard games - and counting! All available for download in our free and open database.

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · Sep 28

Congrats @lz42 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month August 2025! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · Sep 27

The new season of the German Bundesliga has started! Round 1 features GMs Vincent Keymer, Javokhir Sindarov, Richard Rapport and Pentala Harikrishna, among others, with many more top players expected to join in later rounds. Watch all the games in o...

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Lichess Feed @lichessfeed.bsky.social · Sep 25

Meet the Lichess Team at the Annex Chess Club in Toronto, Canada, on 19 October from 6 pm to 9 pm local time for a few hours of chess, snacks and camaraderie! Check out our blog for more information.

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