Congratulations to IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján for winning our Blitz Titled Arena July 2026, ahead of GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, GM Shant Sargsyan, and GM Emin Ohanyan!
Our July 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Blitz Titled Arena at .
IM Mai Narva has also won the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Europe Online Qualifier and advances to the $40,000 over-the-board event in Saint-Tropez, France! Congratulations again!
Watch the finals of the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Europe Online Qualifier now on Lichess, and tune in for live commentary with WFM Lile Koridze on YouTube!
Congratulations to IM Mai Narva for winning the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Africa Online Qualifier on Lichess and qualifying for the $40,000 over-the-board event in Maputo, Mozambique!
The finals of the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Africa Online Qualifier are taking place on Lichess and have just started! Watch the live commentary with WFM Lile Koridze and follow all the games in our broadcast, featuring IM Teodora Injac, IM Mai Narva, and IM Padmini Rout, among others!
Our Titled Arena schedule from July to September 2026 has been announced! As usual, each Titled Arena has a total prize fund of $1,000 and will be preceded by a Warm-up Arena open to all players. The next Blitz Titled Arena will be held on .
Our Game of the Month June Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in June 2026 until ! The winner will be announced on , followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
More new features and improvements were added to Lichess! See what our developers and community contributors have been working on in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum.
Congratulations to team Online World Chess Lovers by @Gouravprithyani for winning the 5th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026 Qualifier with top scorers IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, FM Dinçer Taşdöğen, @minisnake, IM Reza Mahdavi, IM @querencia, and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,183 registered players!
All women players with a FIDE title are welcome to join the WR Women's Chess Tour Africa Online Qualifier on and the Europe Online Qualifier on on Lichess! Find out more in the Africa Qualifier Announcement and Europe Qualifier Announcement by WR Chess.
Congratulations to GM Andrew Tang for winning our Bullet Titled Arena June 2026, ahead of FM @BrightFalcon, GM Matthias Blübaum, GM Christopher Yoo, and IM Robert Piliposyan!
Our June 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Bullet Titled Arena at .
Congrats @Blundered_Match on winning the Lichess Game of the Month May 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
We recently crossed 6 million chess puzzles in our open database. Like the platform itself, Lichess data is free and open source. Go and build something cool with it! Also available on Hugging Face and Kaggle.
Congratulations to team Ronaldo Playing Chess by @jack2212 for winning our Streamer Arena June 2026! Congrats also to ELITE STARS UNITED for taking 2nd place, to K2N_chess for 3rd place, and to TIM NASIONAL CATUR ONLINE INDONESIA for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,280 registered players!
Watch our 2026 FIDE World Team Rapid & Blitz Championships Winner's Interview with Ding Liren!
Team Dragon Chilling won the FIDE World Team Blitz Chess Championship 2026, clinching the double title after already winning the Rapid Championship! Check out our final recap blog to find out what happened on the last day.
Join us in celebrating 48 successful Lichess4545 seasons in the faster 15+15 Season 49 Kick-off Arena today, ! Lichess4545 has over 800 active members and hundreds of games played on a weekly basis.
Lichess turns 16 today! Thank you to all our players, contributors, and supporters! Let's celebrate together in our Anniversary Arena, starting at .
The FIDE World Team Blitz Chess Championship 2026 has started, again featuring Magnus Carlsen, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Vishy Anand, Alireza Firouzja, and many others! Follow all the games in our broadcast and stay tuned for more player interviews.
Team Dragon Chilling won the FIDE World Team Rapid Chess Championship 2026! Watch our interviews with Ding Liren and Wei Yi on YouTube, and check out our recap blog.
Round 1 of the FIDE World Team Rapid Chess Championship has just started! Check out our preview blog, watch our player interviews on YouTube, and follow all the games in our broadcast.
The FIDE World Team Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships start today! Watch our pre-event interviews with Javokhir Sindarov, Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Fabiano Caruana.
The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on ! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.