There was a network hardware failure earlier, which our service provider has fixed now. We apologise for the downtime and inconvenience, unfortunately it was not in our control. Thank you all for your patience!

The favourites prevailed, but some big individual upsets occurred along the way: Read our Olympiad Budapest 2024 Round 1 recap blog and join us again at 13:00 UTC on YouTube and Twitch for Round 2 with our host GM Illia Nyzhnyk and live camera feeds!

Join us on YouTube and Twitch in just one hour at 13:00 UTC for Round 1 of the Olympiad Budapest 2024 with our hosts GM Illia Nyzhnyk and IM Eric Rosen - including live camera feeds!

You can now enable the new Stockfish 17 (79MB net) for analysis in the engine settings menu! Stockfish 16 is still available with a smaller 7MB net. Thanks to the Stockfish team for developing and providing their free and open-source engine!

Watch our latest interview and analysis with none other than IM Eric Rosen and of course our Lewis Chess Legends stream host IM Irene Sukandar!

Lichess had a productive August, with a total of 141 pull requests from 33 contributors, including 9 first-time ones! Check out more details on our updated changelog.

Our August 2024 free and open databases are available for download, bringing the total number of games now to over 5.9 billion in standard chess and 119 million across variants!