Lichess turns 16 today! 🎂 We've had 16 great chess years together, thank you all! ❤️ Let's celebrate together in our arena, starting today at 12:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/i...

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: lichess.org/broadcast/fi...

Ding Liren wasn’t able to watch the World Cup live because he was competing in (and winning) the World Rapid Team Championship, but shared his thoughts on the event in an interview with Selina Xie! 📷 Michal Walusza / FIDE

Team Dragon Chilling, featuring former classical world champion Ding Liren, won the FIDE World Team Rapid Chess Championship 2026! 🏆️ ➡️ Check out our recap: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...

Ding Liren joined us for an interview after his team Dragon Chilling won the 2026 World Team Rapid Championship! Watch now: youtu.be/GWC_DoiJMPs

Anish Giri made a draw in this position against Huang Renjie, one of the strongest untitled players in the world. How could he have delivered checkmate instead? 📷 Yunfan Zhao, Andrei Anosov / FIDE

"This is maybe the most happy day of my life!" Shant Sargsyan just won against Magnus Carlsen in Round 7 of the 2026 FIDE World Team Rapid Championship: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFyz...

The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on 20 June at 20:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/C... The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...

Watch our interview with India's top rated player, GM Arjun Erigaisi, after Round 1 of the 2026 FIDE World Team Rapid Championship! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsBt...

The FIDE World Team Rapid Chess Championships 2026 have just started! Follow all the games in our broadcast: lichess.org/broadcast/fi... Check out our preview blog: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl... Watch our player interviews on YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Get ready for our next Streamer Arena, starting tomorrow at 16:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4: lichess.org/tournament/j... If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, register now: lichess.org/page/streame...

GM Felix Blohberger won 3.5 to 2.5 against GM David Navara in their six-game match in Vienna, Austria! Game 3 turned out to be the only decisive game and secured the match victory for Felix Blohberger. Replay the games: lichess.org/broadcast/gm... 📷️ Emilia Castelao

Our Game of the Month May Contest is still underway! Share your best Lichess standard game played in May 2026 until June 12 in our forum: lichess.org/forum/genera... The winner will be announced on June 24, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...

Congrats diegodon on winning the Lichess Game of the Month April 2026! 🎉 Thank you for all your countless submissions! 🙌 www.youtube.com/shorts/Ums_X...

GM Felix Blohberger and GM David Navara play a classical OTB match from June 8 to 13, starting every day at 13:00 UTC! Tune in for live commentary by GM Alex Colovic & IM Kostya Kavutskiy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Q-... Follow the games on Lichess: lichess.org/broadcast/gm...

Mobile players, we heard your feedback! We have rewritten our mobile chess board in the latest update, resulting in a 2x improvement in responsiveness and a reduction of lag stutters. Please let us know if you feel a difference! Download the mobile app: lichess.org/mobile

Our Chess960 Titled Arena starts today at 19:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/9... Play against some of the titled players in our Warm-up Arena at 18:00 UTC, before they enter the Titled Arena: lichess.org/tournament/9...

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. 📷 ECU, 2700chess

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Lichess is for everyone, chess is for everyone! #pride #pridemonth

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.

More new features and improvements were added to Lichess last month! 🔥 See what our developers and community contributors have been working on in the full changelog: lichess.org/changelog

The finals of the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Americas Online Qualifier are taking place on Lichess and have just started! Watch all the games in our broadcast now, featuring IM Leya Garifullina, IM Mai Narva, IM Teodora Injac and IM Tatev Abrahamyan, among others. lichess.org/broadcast/wr...

GM Ediz Gürel won the Lichess Bullet Titled Arena May 2026! 🏆️ GM Sergei Zhigalko finished in 2nd place, GM José Martínez in 3rd, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in 4th, and IM Renato Terry in 5th! All games & full standings: lichess.org/tournament/m... 📷️ Türkiye Satranç Federasyonu

In an interview with Lichess, Viswanathan Anand shared his thoughts on doubts toward Gukesh's World Championship title 👇

Our Bullet Titled Arena starts today at 19:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/m... Play against some of the titled players in our 1+0 Warm-up Arena at 17:00 UTC, before they enter the Titled Arena: lichess.org/tournament/m...

All women players with a FIDE title are welcome to join the Lichess online qualifier for the WR Women’s Chess Tour 2026 Americas Leg! The first stage starts on May 20th at 22:00 UTC. ➡️ Join the tournament and find out more in the description: lichess.org/tournament/o...

Congratulations to Anna M. Sargsyan for winning the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Asia Qualifier on Lichess and qualifying for the over-the-board event in Tokyo, Japan! lichess.org/broadcast/wr... 📷 Euprathes01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on 20 May at 20:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/C... The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...

Congratulations to Faustino Oro for becoming the second-youngest grandmaster of all time at the age of 12 years, 6 months and 26 days! We are happy to see the Puzzle Racer legend back to his main game after achieving his final norm at the Sardinia World Chess Festival. (1/2)

Get ready for our next Streamer Arena on 18 May at 16:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4: lichess.org/tournament/m... If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, register now: lichess.org/page/streame...

IM Renato Terry won the Lichess Blitz Titled Arena May 2026! 🏆️ GM Oleksandr Bortnyk finished in 2nd place, IM Yoseph Taher in 3rd, GM Christopher Yoo in 4th, and GM Artem Uskov in 5th! All games & full standings: lichess.org/tournament/m...

Our Blitz Titled Arena starts today at 19:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/m... Play against some of the titled players in our Warm-up Arena at 18:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/m...

Watch the second Swiss qualifier for the FIDE World University Team Chess Championship 2026 now in our broadcast: lichess.org/broadcast/fi... The top 16 teams from each Swiss tournament advance to the knockout stage on Lichess, with 8 teams qualifying for the OTB finals in Almaty, Kazakhstan!

Every rated game played on Lichess contributes to our open database, which can be accessed for free on the website and mobile app. You can even download all the games, for any purpose you'd like: database.lichess.org

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. lichess.org/broadcast/wr...

Congratulations to team Шустрий кабан by detective_378 for winning our Streamer Arena April 2026! 🎉 Congrats also to K2N_chess for 2nd place, to The United Royal Legion for 3rd place, and to The Dark Horse Youtube and Twitch Community for 4th place. lichess.org/tournament/a...

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 GMs Awonder Liang, Aryan Chopra, Francesco Sonis, Gleb Dudin, and many more: lichess.org/broadcast/fi...

Happy #InternationalWorkersDay! Great things are possible without taking advantage of workers or users, we just have to work together 💪 Thank you to all our contributors & check out lichess.org/help/contrib... if you want to get involved! Whatever you do, fight for your rights✊️ #MayDay #LabourDay

Congrats FinalSpot on winning the Lichess Game of the Month March 2026! 🎉 Thank you for all your countless submissions! 🙌 www.youtube.com/shorts/3uuQu...

The new Lichess mobile app is now available on F-Droid, an Android app store for free, open-source applications! Download now: f-droid.org/packages/org...

More new features and improvements were added to Lichess last month! 🔥 See what our developers and community contributors have been working on in the full changelog: lichess.org/changelog

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, Kosteniuk, and Stefanova! The first stage starts on April 30th, 13:00 UTC - Find out more from the links in the tournament : lichess.org/tournament/J...

SC Viernheim won the German Bundesliga 2025/26, securing their second title with a perfect score of 30/30! The team's top players include Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Jorden van Foreest, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Parham Maghsoodloo and Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, among others. 📷 Anna Giede, Frank Binding

The Greenland Chess Federation is currently holding its first ever official chess championship! Follow all the games of the 2026 Greenlandic Championship on Lichess: lichess.org/broadcast/gr... The final rounds start at 14:00 UTC and will begin soon.

Congratulations to Oleksandr Bortnyk for winning our Bullet Titled Arena April 2026, ahead of Hooligan64, Thomas Beerdsen, Artem Uskov, and Pranav Venkatesh! 🏆️ All games & full standings: lichess.org/tournament/a...

Our Bullet Titled Arena starts today at 19:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/a... Play against some of the titled players in our Warm-up Arena at 17:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/a...

Congratulations to team Moon Club for winning the 3rd ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026 Qualifier with top scorers DuploChess, IM Renato Terry, GM FeegLood, GM delta_horsey, and many others! 🎉 Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,926 registered players! 🙌 lichess.org/tournament/C...

Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis' 3 rules for the website #chess #lichess #opensource

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