LichessLichess Game of the Month: March '26
H3rnanSpinetta Armónica Perfecta
LyrogenАнализ случайной позиции с стратегического взгляда. No2
GetDiscombobulatedThe Better Budapest - Nimzo Indian Gambits pt.1
danthedestroyer317Who was Akiba Rubinstein?
DannyZhai12345Tactics in Elite Chess: Four Puzzles from the 2026 Tata Steel Chess (Masters)
JulyFourthBerserk as a Conditional Advantage
FM BuendiaChess2 Blunders & 2 Draws. TePe Sigeman & Co Tournament. Round 1 Analysis
TimelessDaBassieScientific analysis of lag compensation on lichess and chess-dot-com.
mullerrjChecks, Captures & Threats: What is it and why is it important?
ChessAtlasAppI built a free tool to analyze your chess openings repertoire weaknesses
MradsomerEndgame Bootcamp 9: Two Rook and Pawn Endings
IM Lizard1French Defense Masterclass: Crushing a 2600+ GM
IM trainingaccount996Game of the Week 16/52
The finals of the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Asia Online Qualifier are taking place on Lichess and have just started! Watch all the games in our broadcast now, featuring IM Alua Nurman, IM Dinara Wagner and IM Anna M. Sargsyan, among others. Read the announcement for more information.
Our Game of the Month April Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in April 2026 until ! The winner will be announced on , followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
Lichess is hosting the online qualifiers for the FIDE World University Team Chess Championship 2026! Watch all the games of the first Swiss qualifier now in our broadcast, featuring GM Awonder Liang, GM Aryan Chopra, GM Francesco Sonis, GM Gleb Dudin, and many more.
Congratulations to team Шустрий кабан by @detective_378 for winning our Streamer Arena April 2026! Congrats also to K2N_chess for taking 2nd place, to The United Royal Legion for 3rd place, and to The Dark Horse Youtube and Twitch Community for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,638 registered players!
Happy International Workers' Day! Great things are possible without exploiting workers, we just have to work together. Thank you to all our contributors and check out our contributing page, if you want to get involved. Whatever you do, fight for your rights!
Congrats @FinalSpot on winning the Lichess Game of the Month March 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
More new features and improvements were added to Lichess last month! See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum.
Open tournaments
More »| Hourly Rapid | 1h 57m | 214 | |
| Hourly UltraBullet | 27m | 37 | |
| Hourly Antichess | 27m | 17 | |
| ≤1300 Bullet | 27m | 19 | |
| Hourly Bullet | 27m | 129 | |
| ≤2000 Blitz | 57m | ||
| Hourly SuperBlitz | 57m | ||
| Hourly HyperBullet | 27m | ||
| Hourly Blitz | 57m | ||
| ≤1500 Bullet | 27m | ||
| ≤1300 SuperBlitz | 57m |