"We're a charity, we're a non-profit, so we're not trying to impress sponsors or investors or venture capitalists." — Our Director of Operations, Theo Wait, joined Greg Mustreader to discuss the online chess landscape, how we run Lichess behind the scenes, and much more! Watch the full episode on YouTube.
We've been collecting research publications using Lichess and just crossed 300 entries, with almost 100 from this year alone! We regularly publish data on our open database. Open source and open data are key for research, pushing the boundaries of human knowledge. Thank you to all the researchers!
The group stage of the Total Chess Pilot 2026 has started! Follow all the games in our broadcasts until , featuring GMs Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Wesley So, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Vincent Keymer, and more.
We invite you to join us for a Bullet Arena on at 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 at ! The winner will be announced on , 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 at 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!
Get ready for our next Streamer Arenas on at and at , with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4! If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, register now.
WGM Sabina Foisor is now live for Round 6 of Lichess4545 Season 50! Tune in to Sabina Foisor's live commentary on Twitch.
Congratulations to GM Oleksandr Bortnyk for winning our Bullet Titled Arena October 2026, ahead of GM Sergei Zhigalko, IM @BrightFalcon, GM Brandon Jacobson, and GM Artem Uskov!
Happy Halloween! Celebrate with us in our 3+0 Halloween Gambit Arena at .
Our October 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, at ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Bullet Titled Arena at .
GM Javokhir Sindarov won the Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown 2026! Watch our winner's interview with GM Sindarov, who will play against GM Gukesh Dommaraju for the World Chess Championship from to .
The final day of the Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown 2026 has started! Follow all the games in our broadcast and watch our interviews with Fabiano Caruana and Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu.
The Ladder Legends rematch between GM Vetoshko and GM Oleksiyenko has started! Join us now on YouTube and Twitch.
World Championship challenger Javokhir Sindarov joined us for an interview at Clutch Chess: Champions Showdown! Sindarov finished the first day undefeated and is currently in second place, just behind Hikaru Nakamura. Follow all the games in our broadcast.
Even grandmasters overpress sometimes! Watch IM Emil Stefanov’s instructive breakdown of our second Ladder Legends edition with insights from the players, GM Iván Salgado López and GM Peng Li Min.
Our next edition of Ladder Legends by Lichess features GM Volodymyr Vetoshko facing GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko in their rematch! GM Oleksiyenko won the first game, but has to play with the black pieces this time. Join us for our livestream tomorrow, at , with our host IM Emil Stefanov on YouTube and Twitch.
Tune in now to the Lichess4545 Season 50 livestream with NM Marc Nassar on Twitch!
Congrats @Fritzi_2003 on winning our 2026 Autumn Marathon with a 68% win rate in 415 games, finishing 109 points ahead of runner-up CM Daniil Kaminskii! Thanks to all 19,752 registered players who played a total of 206,604 games and 14,743,979 moves. Our 2026 Winter Marathon will start on at .
You can now import chess positions from images on the Lichess mobile app! Press the camera icon in the Board editor, and choose between taking or uploading a picture. See the demo and download the app! Many thanks to Joël Seytre for the underlying ChessQueries recognition model!
Our 2026 Autumn Marathon starts on at ! Join us for 24 hours of 3+0 Blitz and take part in one of the biggest chess tournaments in history. The top 500, top 100, top 50, top 10, and the winner will all get a unique trophy.