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Shenzhen Nanshan Masters 2025Ding Liren, Wang Hao, Bu Xiangzhi • Playing now Titled Arena December '25Titled only, $1,000 prize pool86 players • Eastern SuperBlitz Arena678 players • Playing now Rapid Increment Swiss36 players • Playing now

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ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Finals

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Catalan - new double bishop sacrifice!

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Open tournaments

Hourly Rapid	1h 57m	405
Eastern SuperBlitz	1h 30m	678
Hourly Atomic	57m	42
≤1700 Rapid	57m	143
Hourly Chess960	57m	28
Hourly Racing Kings	57m	20
≤2000 Blitz	57m	189
≤1300 SuperBlitz	57m	37
Hourly Antichess	57m	34
Richter-Veresov Attack Blitz	57m	75
≤1500 Bullet	27m	11
Hourly Three-check	27m
Hourly Bullet	27m	32
Hourly UltraBullet	27m
Titled Arena December '25	2h	86

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.