Round 5 of the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad has started! Follow all the games in our broadcasts and check out our interviews with Levon Aronian, Savitha Shri, Kong Xiangrui, and more players on YouTube.
Our 2026 Lichess Meetup in Prague takes place tomorrow, from ! Join us for a few hours of chess, snacks, and camaraderie at Juliš Hub 1933, Nové Město. Find more details in our full announcement.
After the first three rounds of the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad, most of the top 10 seeds remain steady on 6/6 match points - except for England in the Open, and Georgia, Ukraine, and France in the Women's. Check out our Rounds 1–3 Recap and watch our player interviews on YouTube. Round 4 starts at .
Round 3 of the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad has just started! Follow all the games in our broadcasts and check out our interviews with Wei Yi, Carissa Yip & Alice Lee, Lorenzo Lodici, and more players on YouTube.
Team Poland won the 3rd FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities! Congratulations to the gold medallists IM Marcin Molenda, IM Paweł Piekielny, IM Aleksander Czerwoński, Julia Salamon, and Andrzej Migala! Silver went to Team Cuba, while Team Uzbekistan 1 took bronze.
The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on at ! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.
Watch our Olympiad interviews with Faustino Oro, Awonder Liang, and more players on YouTube! Round 2 of the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad starts at . Follow all the games of the Open and Women's tournaments in our broadcasts.
The 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad starts tomorrow, at in Samarkand, Uzbekistan! Nearly 2,000 players from almost 400 teams will compete in the Open and Women's tournaments until . Read our Preview Blog, follow all the games in our broadcasts, and stay tuned for our on-site player interviews on YouTube.
More new features and improvements were added to Lichess! See what our developers and community contributors have been working on in the updated changelog.
We are trying out a new format for our changelog. Let us know in our forum if you have any feedback.
Congratulations to IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján for winning our Chess960 Titled Arena September 2026, ahead of GM @caching, IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, GM Pranav Venkatesh, and CM Georgijs Germanovs!
Registrations for Season 50 of Lichess4545 are still open! This special season will feature live commentary from the legendary GM Daniel King and GM Peter Svidler, among others. Celebrate the start of the new season together with us in the faster 15+15 Season 50 Kick-off Arena on at .
Our Chess960 3+2 Warm-up Arena starts today, at ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Chess960 Titled Arena at .
The FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities 2026 has started, with 41 teams competing in Samarkand, Uzbekistan! Follow all the games in our broadcast until .
Meet the Lichess Team for chess, snacks, and camaraderie in Prague, Czech Republic! Join us on from at Juliš Hub 1933, Nové Město. Many thanks to Chess House Praha for helping us out with the event! Find more details in our full announcement.
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 for winning our Streamer Arena August 2026! Congrats also to CSCA Open Events for taking 2nd place, to DarkOnTeams for 3rd place, and to Online World Chess Lovers for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,514 registered players!
Our Game of the Month August Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in August 2026 until at ! The winner will be announced on , followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
Our Light Theme now supports background images! Open the account menu, go to Theme settings, enable Background image, and pick an existing picture or add a custom image link. Adjust the Image opacity to your liking for better readability.
Congratulations to GM Artem Uskov for winning our Bullet Titled Arena August 2026, ahead of IM Reza Mahdavi, FM @BrightFalcon, IM @ManiacalZerker, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk!
Our August 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, at ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Bullet Titled Arena at .
Congrats @sniperBis6hopx on winning the Lichess Game of the Month July 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
Join the next Take Take Take Arena for two hours of 3+0 Blitz with a prize pool of over $2,000, starting on at !
The first edition of Ladder Legends by Lichess is about to start! Join us now on YouTube and Twitch.
In our first edition of Ladder Legends, GM Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko faces GM Volodymyr Vetoshko in a 45+30 classical game, featuring instructive live commentary by our host IM Emil Stefanov! Join us tomorrow, at on YouTube and Twitch to enjoy high-level slow chess.
Congratulations to team IQPI by WIM Irina Petrova for winning the 7th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026 Qualifier with top scorers IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, @chesstrain866, IM Alexander Khripachenko, IM Alexandr Ulanov, GM Kirill Shubin, and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,817 registered players!