Our Game of the Month July Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in July 2026 until 2026-08-12! The winner will be announced on 2026-08-24, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

Congrats @Fritzi_2003 on winning our 2026 Summer Marathon with a 74% win rate in 875 games, finishing 720 points ahead of runner-up @speedrunchessgames! Thanks to all 20,350 registered players who played a total of 429,085 games and 30,608,664 moves. Our 2026 Autumn Marathon will start on 2026-10-24 at 00:00 UTC.

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.

Our 2026 Summer Marathon starts on 2026-08-01 00:00 UTC! Join us for 24 hours of 1+0 Bullet 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.

Congrats @Bengal_Tiger_2011 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month June 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

Congratulations to IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher for winning our Bullet Titled Arena July 2026, ahead of FM @BrightFalcon, GM Pranav Venkatesh, GM Sergei Zhigalko, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk!

Our July 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, 2026-07-25 17:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Bullet Titled Arena at 19:00 UTC.