Start in 50 minutes: 592. Lichess Bundesliga with 500+ teams and 4000+ players https://lichess.org/tournament/O3gdhE1H Links of all leagues: https://lichess.org/forum/team-lichess-discord-bundesliga-team/592-lichess-bundesliga--november-6th--team-pairings

Huge blunder! 😱

Australian GM Temur Kuybokarov was on the verge of upsetting GM Praggnanandhaa after winning their third tiebreak game, but blundered and lost the match after three more tiebreak games.

How did Praggnanandhaa gain a decisive advantage after White's move? 🧐

➡️ See the solution in the game on Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-world-cup-2025--round-2/tiebreak-2-rapid-2/Mtb1mrNY/VkjUYKpO#61

📷 Eteri Kublashvili / FIDE

Endgame tactics 🧩

How did GM Gabriel Sargissian convert to a winning endgame with Black against GM Maxim Rodshtein? 🤔

➡️ See the solution on Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-world-cup-2025--round-2/tiebreak-2-rapid-1/i3npEnWh/Wgp4p0LJ#81

📷 Eteri Kublashvili / FIDE

Top seeds GM Wesley So, GM Hans Niemann, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, and GM Nihal Sarin were eliminated in Round 2 of the FIDE World Cup 2025! Read our recap, check out our interviews from the World Cup on YouTube, and watch all the games of Round 3 now in our broadcast.

We invite you to join us tomorrow at 15:00 UTC for a bullet arena in memory of GM Daniel Naroditsky.

November 9 would have been his 30th birthday.

https://lichess.org/tournament/naro2025

Photo: Maria Emelianova / FIDE

Our November 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts in less than two hours at 19:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena.

White to move and win! 🧩 There's only one winning move.. 🤔

What move did GM Jorden van Foreest play to force a tiebreak in his FIDE World Cup Round 3 match against GM Alexey Sarana?

See the solution on Lichess: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-world-cup-2025--round-3/game-2/ARRfhqqa/FXK8oVIz#68

📷 Eteri Kublashvili / FIDE

Congratulations to GM Sergei Zhigalko for winning our Blitz Titled Arena November 2025, ahead of IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, IM Reza Mahdavi, GM Brandon Jacobson, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk!

The 594. Lichess Bundesliga starts in 30 minutes! https://lichess.org/tournament/hMLKbzlq All team pairings: https://lichess.org/forum/team-lichess-discord-bundesliga-team/594-lichess-bundesliga--november-9th--team-pairings
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Link for our Discord team: https://lichess.org/tournament/LPHTPKlT
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Thank you to all 12,205 players who joined our Memorial Arena for GM Daniel Naroditsky. Today would have been Danya's 30th birthday. We will remember him for his passion and inspiration, as one of the brightest advocates for chess.

World No. 5, GM Arjun Erigaisi, reflects on his crushing victory over GM Shamsiddin Vokhidov in their first game of Round 3 of the FIDE World Cup 2025!

➡️ Watch our interview with GM Arjun Erigaisi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzCrAGtcdtE

GM José Martínez Alcántara upset the Uzbek No. 1, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, in Round 3 of the FIDE World Cup!

➡️ Watch our interview with GM José Martínez Alcántara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTVEZpIZ1ic

GM Matthias Blübaum defeated 15-year-old prodigy GM Ivan Zemlyanskii and will face compatriot GM Alexander Donchenko in Round 4 of the FIDE World Cup!

➡️ Watch our interview with GM Matthias Blübaum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=barCAN6xPyk

Broadcast player search is now available on our new mobile app! Find your favourite player's game with the search bar on top of the boards page.

Watch our video to see how it works: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UIPN6116W0s

Download our new mobile app: https://lichess.org/mobile

GM Peter Leko won both Round 3 World Cup games against GM Kirill Alekseenko! He will play against GM Arjun Erigaisi in Round 4 tomorrow.

➡️ Watch our interview with GM Peter Leko: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uf1dT2mL2o

GM Frederik Svane had to face the reigning World Champion, GM Gukesh Dommaraju, in Round 3 of the FIDE World Cup 2025 - and he won! 😮

➡️ Watch our interview with GM Frederik Svane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waY-97Xuv5Y

GM Frederik Svane eliminated World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in Round 3 of the FIDE World Cup 2025, as GM Anish Giri and GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov are also out of the tournament.

Read our recap, check out our interviews on YouTube, and watch all the games of Round 4 in our broadcast at 09:45 UTC.

📷 Eteri Kublashvili / FIDE

Researchers at Google DeepMind used our free puzzle database and reinforcement learning to train a model to generate creative chess puzzles.

➡️ Read more on this in the blog by Tom Zahavy from the DeepMind discovery team and try to solve the puzzles yourself in the Lichess study!

GM Levon Aronian successfully managed to surprise GM Radosław Wojtaszek in the opening of their first game in Round 4 of the FIDE World Cup! After winning Game 1, Aronian now only needs a draw in Game 2 to advance to the next round.

➡️ Watch our interview with GM Levon Aronian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vqGLr49MJ0

GM José Martínez Alcántara defeated GM Alexey Sarana in the first game of Round 4 of the FIDE World Cup 2025! He is now on a 3-game winning streak and will play with the white pieces in the next game.

➡️ Watch our interview with GM José Martínez Alcántara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK7wuTjF7po