The 2024 World Chess Championship match between defending champion Ding Liren and challenger Gukesh D will be held in Singapore from 20 November to 15 December, FIDE announced on its website.

Our Game of the Month June Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in June 2024 until 5 July! The winner will be announced on 14 July, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

See what our developers and community contributors have been working on over the past month in our updated changelog. Thanks to Bsmick6 and henrique-barros, you can now enable board coordinates on all squares - including the Coordinates Trainer!

At the age of 10 years, 8 months and 16 days, FM Faustino Oro is set to become the youngest International Master in chess history after a draw against IM Fernando Valenzuela Gomez in Round 9 of the Cerrado IM Barcelona! IM Cristian Andres Hernandez took 1st place with better tiebreaks than Oro.

10-year-old FM Faustino Oro needs at least a draw with Black against IM Fernando Valenzuela Gomez in the final round of the Cerrado IM Barcelona to achieve his third IM norm and become the youngest International Master ever! Follow the game now in our broadcast.

We interviewed the former Women's World Champion and next Women's World Championship challenger GM Tan Zhongyi after her dominant win in this year's Women's Candidates Tournament. Many thanks to WFM Yilin Li for the translation! Read the interview here.

The Superbet Romania Chess Classic 2024 has started! Watch GMs Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Gukesh D, Anish Giri and others compete over 9 rounds in our broadcast until 5 July.