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Titled Arena Warm-up December '25Open to all, $100 prize pool396 players • Titled Arena December '25Titled only, $1,000 prize pool94 players • HyperBullet Shield ArenaBattle for the HyperBullet Shield78 players •

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11 Dec 2025JudeBaeTorrens

Atomic Openings Every Player Should Know About

30 Nov 2025LM Assios

A mildly funny observation in the King’s Indian

TimelessLittleSoapBubble

Catalan - new double bishop sacrifice!

7 Dec 2025IM Fins

What I Learned from Spending 1,000+ Hours Writing an Opening Course

10 Dec 2025tolius

Antichess: 1. e3 Wins for White in #79

7 Dec 2025TotalNoob69

Did you know Lichess can do this?! Opening Explorer and Tablebase

11 Dec 2025IM theScot

Karpov vs Kasparov: The Rivalry (Part 1: 1975-1985)

7 Dec 2025HollowLeaf

Integrating Maia2 (The Human-Like Chess Engine) into My Chess Application

Open tournaments

Four Knights Game SuperBlitz	57m	197
Hourly Antichess	27m	55
Hourly Bullet	27m	348
Hourly Three-check	57m	34
≤1500 Rapid	57m	124
Hourly Crazyhouse	57m	33
Hourly Blitz	57m	360
Hourly King of the Hill	57m	34
≤1700 Blitz	57m	138
Hourly Horde	57m	19
Hourly Rapid	1h 57m	295
Hourly HyperBullet	27m	90
≤1300 Bullet	27m	18
≤2000 SuperBlitz	57m	278
Hourly UltraBullet	27m
HyperBullet Shield	4h	78
Titled Arena Warm-up December '25	1h 50m	396
Titled Arena December '25	2h	94

Simultaneous exhibitions

LM Lance5500

5+3

Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning our Streamer Arena December 2025! Congrats also to K2N_chess for taking 2nd place, to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for 3rd place, and to IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,825 registered players!

Due to an ongoing issue with our live streamer detection, streamers may not be detected as live, while offline streamers can falsely appear to be live. We have thus temporarily stopped displaying live streamers on our homepage. We are working on a fix and apologize for the inconvenience.

The Chess960 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour 2025 Finals have started in Cape Town, South Africa! Follow all the games in our broadcast, featuring GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Vincent Keymer and Hans Niemann among others.

The ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Finals, featuring a prize fund of $10,000 and an additional $2,500 for the overall Grand Prix winner, will take place on 20 December at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all qualified Lichess streamer teams and invited wildcard teams.

Congratulations to IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján for winning our Chess960 Titled Arena December 2025, ahead of GM Pranav V, FM @PawnArchitect, IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, and GM Haik Martirosyan!

Our Chess960 3+2 Warm-up Arena starts at 19:00 UTC! You will have the chance to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Chess960 Titled Arena.