We invite you to join us for a Bullet Arena on 2026-11-09 at 20:00 UTC in memory of GM Daniel Naroditsky, known on Lichess as @RebeccaHarris. Today would have been Danya's 31st birthday.

Our Game of the Month October Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in October 2026 until 2026-11-12 at 00:00 UTC! The winner will be announced on 2026-11-24, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

Congratulations to team K2N_chess by FM Konstantin Kostin for winning our Streamer Arena November 2026! Congrats also to CSCA Open Events for taking 2nd place, to TIM NASIONAL CATUR ONLINE INDONESIA for 3rd place, and to Online World Chess Lovers for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,389 registered players!

We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on 2026-11-07 at 07:00 UTC for (hopefully) under 30 minutes! We'll keep you updated on our social media channels, but in the meantime we hope you enjoy whatever activity you choose to fill the void.

Congrats @Drlnfrxx on winning the Lichess Game of the Month September 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

Our chess position evaluations dataset on Hugging Face crossed 1 billion rows! That's over 1,000,000,000 Stockfish evaluations from games played on Lichess, free to download for any purpose.

Congratulations to team K2N_chess by FM Konstantin Kostin for winning the 9th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026 Qualifier with top scorers GM José Martínez Alcántara, @jiwuna, GM Shant Sargsyan, @dfsocial, FM Vladislav Sipetin, and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,301 registered players!