Our May 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Blitz Titled Arena at .
Watch the second Swiss qualifier for the FIDE World University Team Chess Championship 2026 now in our broadcast! The top 16 teams from each Swiss tournament advance to the knockout stage on Lichess, with 8 teams qualifying for the over-the-board finals in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
You can now pin your favourite players in broadcasts! Use the pin icon in the Players tab to show their games on top of other boards, or enable "Pinned" in the Boards tab to only show their games.
The finals of the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Asia Online Qualifier are taking place on Lichess and have just started! Watch all the games in our broadcast now, featuring IM Alua Nurman, IM Dinara Wagner and IM Anna M. Sargsyan, among others. Read the announcement for more information.
Our Game of the Month April Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in April 2026 until ! The winner will be announced on , followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
Lichess is hosting the online qualifiers for the FIDE World University Team Chess Championship 2026! Watch all the games of the first Swiss qualifier now in our broadcast, featuring GM Awonder Liang, GM Aryan Chopra, GM Francesco Sonis, GM Gleb Dudin, and many more.
Congratulations to team Шустрий кабан by @detective_378 for winning our Streamer Arena April 2026! Congrats also to K2N_chess for taking 2nd place, to The United Royal Legion for 3rd place, and to The Dark Horse Youtube and Twitch Community for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,638 registered players!
Happy International Workers' Day! Great things are possible without exploiting workers, we just have to work together. Thank you to all our contributors and check out our contributing page, if you want to get involved. Whatever you do, fight for your rights!
Congrats @FinalSpot on winning the Lichess Game of the Month March 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
More new features and improvements were added to Lichess last month! See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum.
All women players with a FIDE title are welcome to join the online qualifier for the WR Women’s Chess Tour 2026 Asian Leg, featuring Vaishali R, Alexandra Kosteniuk, and Antoaneta Stefanova! The first stage starts on - Find out more in the announcement post by WR Chess.
SC Viernheim won the German Bundesliga 2025/26, securing their second title with a perfect score of 30/30! The team's top scorers include GM Bassem Amin, GM Alexey Sarana, GM Dennis Wagner, GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, GM Jorden van Foreest, GM Georg Meier, and GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda, among others. Replay all the games in our broadcast.
The Greenland Chess Federation is currently holding its first ever official chess championship! Follow all the games of the Greenlandic Championship 2026 on Lichess. The final rounds start at .
Congratulations to GM Oleksandr Bortnyk for winning our Bullet Titled Arena April 2026, ahead of GM @Hooligan64, GM Thomas Beerdsen, GM Artem Uskov, and GM Pranav Venkatesh!
Our April 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Bullet Titled Arena at .
Congratulations to team Moon Club by @MoonWarrior1 for winning the 3rd ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026 Qualifier with top scorers @DuploChess, IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, GM @FeegLood, GM @delta_horsey, and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,926 registered players!
Get ready for our next Streamer Arenas on and , 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.
The Chess Digital League Final, organized by the UAE Chess Federation, is taking place on Lichess right now! The event features a total prize pool of over AED 60,000 (USD 15,000+) for school students in the United Arab Emirates.
We sat down with the one and only GM Viswanathan Anand for a 54-minute interview. The 15th World Champion reflects on his legacy, Magnus Carlsen, Gukesh Dommaraju, the future of chess, and much more! Watch the interview on YouTube.
17-year-old IM Roman Dehtiarov won the European Individual Chess Championship 2026! With a rating of 2452, he is now the lowest-rated player ever to win the event. He gained 46 rating points from his 2781 performance and earned the GM title directly by winning a continental championship.
Congrats @GlasnostPerestroika on winning our 2026 Spring Marathon with a 76% win rate in 479 games, finishing 231 points ahead of runner-up FM Dimitrios Makridis! Thanks to all 21,291 registered players who played a total of 286,975 games and 20,763,129 moves. The next Marathon will take place on .
"We're not creating value for ourselves, we're creating value for the entire chess community." — Thibault Duplessis, our founder and lead developer, on his vision for Lichess, recent projects, the Take Take Take agreement, interests outside of chess, and more! Watch the interview on YouTube.
Congratulations to IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján for winning our Blitz Titled Arena April 2026, ahead of GM Emin Ohanyan, GM José Martínez Alcántara, GM Matthias Blübaum, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk!
Our April 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Blitz Titled Arena at .