Lichess Game of the Month August 2026 - Contest

Share your best Lichess game from August 2026 (only from August 2026, only standard games, no variant games, and only one game per player — additional games will be ignored!) until September 12th in a comment to this post! The winner will be announced here in this forum thread on September 24th, followed by a Lichess blog post with commentary on the game. Good luck!

![image.png](https://image.lichess1.org/display?op=noop&path=88QzWhD5jzjw.png&sig=9f7e8a632cf8b2db2c65620ec3a3540214a3808e) Share your best Lichess game from August 2026 (only from August 2026, only standard games, no variant games, and only one game per player — additional games will be ignored!) until September 12th in a comment to this post! The winner will be announced here in this forum thread on September 24th, followed by a Lichess blog post with commentary on the game. Good luck!

Himawari_Nohara

https://lichess.org/3ZKtGaio/white#61

Kaan_Burak

https://lichess.org/fPwY4jxc/white

GeneralChessKing

https://lichess.org/bmEtHDCu/black#40

Sacrifise

https://lichess.org/bmEtHDCu/black#40 Sacrifise

Snorklewacker

https://lichess.org/xRDYd6FS

Betcomcpiey

Apocaliptic knight !
In this game, i like the rook sacrifice and the position from all knight !

But honestly, it's an ideal game to be killed by GM's comment !!

https://lichess.org/euec2eYP/white#24

Apocaliptic knight ! In this game, i like the rook sacrifice and the position from all knight ! But honestly, it's an ideal game to be killed by GM's comment !! https://lichess.org/euec2eYP/white#24

rcstinson

This one had a nice flurry of tactics, I think:

https://lichess.org/zcvQl5GmYpQl

This one had a nice flurry of tactics, I think: https://lichess.org/zcvQl5GmYpQl

Tockos edited

https://lichess.org/AOh3TqUNcFQX

stop_fascism

https://lichess.org/NNHNNWcu

A beautiful game with correct sacrifice rook attack with tasks one of which is here
FEN: 3r3r/1pqnk1pp/p3p3/4P3/2PNQ3/1P6/P5PP/5R1K w - - 2 22

Qh4+ Ke8
Nxe6 Nxe5
Nxc7+ 1-0
and another in the study with the analysis of this attack is located by link
https://lichess.org/study/pLyEFYnI

https://lichess.org/NNHNNWcu A beautiful game with correct sacrifice rook attack with tasks one of which is here FEN: 3r3r/1pqnk1pp/p3p3/4P3/2PNQ3/1P6/P5PP/5R1K w - - 2 22 1. Qh4+ Ke8 2. Nxe6 Nxe5 3. Nxc7+ 1-0 and another in the study with the analysis of this attack is located by link https://lichess.org/study/pLyEFYnI

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