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.
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.
Our Game of the Month May Contest is still underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in May 2026 until ! The winner will be announced on , followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
GM Felix Blohberger and GM David Navara play a classical OTB match from June 8 to 13, starting every day at ! Tune in now for live commentary by GM Alex Colovic and IM Kostya Kavutskiy and follow the games in our broadcast.
Congratulations to IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján for winning our Chess960 Titled Arena June 2026, ahead of IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, FM Dmitry Goltsev, GM @handofprince, and FM Cristian Arrieta Hernández!
Our Chess960 3+2 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Chess960 Titled Arena at .
Kong Xiangrui won the 2026 Asian Individual Chess Championship, becoming the first IM to ever win the tournament and gaining the GM title directly! In the women's section, Savitha Shri B won on tiebreaks with a score of 7.5/9.
Praggnanandhaa R won Norway Chess 2026 after 4 classical wins in a row to score 18 points, while Bibisara Assaubayeva secured victory in the women's section a round in advance with a score of 16.5.
15-year-old Anastasiia Hnatyshyn won the 2026 European Women's Chess Championship! Entering the tournament as the 76th seed with a 2207 rating, she finished with a 2580 performance to gain 214 Elo from the event and become the women's world No. 18.
Happy Pride Month! Lichess is for everyone, chess is for everyone!
Congrats @diegodon on winning the Lichess Game of the Month April 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!