GM Peter Svidler is now live for Round 3 of Lichess4545 Season 50! Tune in on Twitch for Peter Svidler's live commentary.
The new season of the German Bundesliga has started! Follow all the games now in our broadcast, featuring GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Richard Rapport, Matthias Blübaum, Faustino Oro, and more!
Our Board Editor now supports importing board positions from images! Select "From image" or drag and drop the image onto the board. Many thanks to Joël Seytre for the underlying ChessQueries recognition model, also available on chessq.org! Lichess uses the ChessQ Lite V4 model under the PolyForm Noncommercial license. The feature will also come to our mobile app soon.
Our Game of the Month September Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in September 2026 until at ! The winner will be announced on , followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
Congrats @rcstinson on winning the Lichess Game of the Month August 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
Enjoy our Puzzle Pack for the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad 2026, curated and annotated by FM Nazmi Can Doğan and FM Tamer Tarık Selbes! The study contains 64 exciting and instructive puzzles for you to solve and learn from.
Watch Round 2 of Lichess4545 Season 50 now live on Twitch with NM Marc Nassar!
One year later, we look back at the 2025 Lichess Meetup in Toronto, which saw three days of chess, work, and a whole lot of fun! Many thanks again to the Annex Chess Club for hosting a fantastic tournament.
Congratulations to team IQPI by WIM Irina Petrova for winning the 8th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026 Qualifier with top scorers IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, GM @Kingdomino1, @BundesligaChampion, FM Cristian Camilo Arrieta Hernández, and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,129 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.
Congratulations to team K2N_chess by FM Konstantin Kostin for winning our Streamer Arena September 2026! Congrats also to DarkOnTeams for taking 2nd place, to Online World Chess Lovers for 3rd place, and to BelarusianBeasts&Company for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,220 registered players!
The second edition of Ladder Legends by Lichess has started! Join us now on YouTube and Twitch.
What do grandmasters actually do with 45 minutes to think? Watch IM Emil Stefanov’s breakdown of our first Ladder Legends edition, featuring insights from the players, GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko and GM Volodymyr Vetoshko. The second edition of Ladder Legends by Lichess starts today, at . Tune in to our livestream on YouTube and Twitch.
Congratulations to GM Oleksandr Bortnyk for winning our Bullet Titled Arena September 2026, ahead of GM Brandon Jacobson, IM Robert Piliposyan, GM Artem Uskov, and IM @BrightFalcon!
GM Peng Li Min replaces GM Ivan Cheparinov to face GM Iván Salgado López in the second edition of Ladder Legends by Lichess! Tune in tomorrow, at , on YouTube and Twitch with our host IM Emil Stefanov.
Team Uzbekistan won the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad, and Team China won the 46th FIDE Women's Chess Olympiad! Congratulations to the teams and players! Check out our final recap for the 2026 Olympiad in Samarkand and watch our player interviews on YouTube.
The final round of the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad is underway! Follow all the games in our broadcasts and check out our interviews with Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Yağız Kaan Erdoğmuş, Park Sunwoo, Roman Dehtiarov and more players on YouTube.
Our September 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, at ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Bullet Titled Arena at .
GM Daniel King is now live for Round 1 of Lichess4545 Season 50! Tune in on Twitch for Daniel King's live commentary.
The next edition of Ladder Legends by Lichess will be played between GM Ivan Cheparinov and GM Iván Salgado López! Mark your calendars for at and tune in to our livestream on YouTube and Twitch with our host IM Emil Stefanov.
Just two more rounds to go in the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad! Uzbekistan is still leading the Open, while China is now in sole 1st place of the Women's tournament. Check out our Rounds 7–9 Recap and watch our interviews on YouTube. Round 10 starts tomorrow, at .
Follow all the games of Round 9 of the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad now in our broadcasts and watch our player interviews with Vincent Keymer, Hans Niemann, Stavroula Tsolakidou, and more players on YouTube.
Round 8 of the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad has started! Follow all the games in our broadcasts and check out our interviews with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Oliwia Kiołbasa, Alice O'Gorman, Rachel Miller and more players on YouTube.
More new features and improvements were added to Lichess last month! See what our developers and community contributors have been working on in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum.
On the only rest day of the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad, Uzbekistan is leading the Open, while China and Kazakhstan are in 1st place of the Women's tournament. Check out our Rounds 4–6 Recap and watch our interviews on YouTube. Round 7 starts tomorrow, at .