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Titled Arena Warm-up December '25Open to all, $100 prize pool487 players • Titled Arena December '25Titled only, $1,000 prize pool98 players • HyperBullet Shield ArenaBattle for the HyperBullet Shield120 players • Rapid Swiss15 players •

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Puzzle of the day

White to play

7 Dec 2025DaBassie

A mildly funny observation in the King’s Indian

TimelessLittleSoapBubble

Catalan - new double bishop sacrifice!

11 Dec 2025IM theScot

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

7 Dec 2025IM Fins

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

30 Nov 2025LM Assios

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

11 Dec 2025JudeBaeTorrens

Atomic Openings Every Player Should Know About

7 Dec 2025HollowLeaf

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

10 Dec 2025tolius

Antichess: 1. e3 Wins for White in #79

Open tournaments

Four Knights Game Rapid	1h 57m	26
Hourly Antichess	57m
Hourly Bullet	27m
Hourly Atomic	57m
≤1500 SuperBlitz	57m	11
Hourly Three-check	57m
Hourly SuperBlitz	57m	32
Hourly Chess960	57m
≤1700 Bullet	27m
Hourly Horde	27m
Hourly Blitz	57m	24
Hourly HyperBullet	27m
≤1300 Blitz	57m
≤2000 Rapid	57m	35
HyperBullet Shield	4h	120
Titled Arena Warm-up December '25	1h 50m	487
Titled Arena December '25	2h	98

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.