You can now customize the shape of buttons and other elements on Lichess! Open your account menu, go to "Theme" settings, and adjust the "Roundness" to make corners rounded or square.

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

Congrats Fritzi_2003 on winning our 2026 Summer Marathon with a 74% win rate in 875 games, finishing 720 points ahead of runner-up speedrunchessgames! 🎉 Thanks to all 20,350 registered players who played a total of 429,085 games and 30,608,664 moves. 🙌

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

Our 2026 Summer Marathon starts at midnight UTC! lichess.org/tournament/s... 🌐 Join us for 24 hours of 1+0 Bullet and take part in one of the biggest chess tournaments in history. The top 500, top 100, top 50, top 10 and the winner will all get a unique trophy.

This is the highest rated mate in 1 puzzle on Lichess, with a 2195 rating! How long did it take you to solve it?

Congrats Bengal_Tiger_2011 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month June 2026! 🎉 Thank you for all your countless submissions! 🙌 www.youtube.com/shorts/9l5Ls...

Lichess Game of the Month June 2026 🔥 Congrats, Bengal_Tiger_2011! 🎉

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IM Yoseph Taher wins the Lichess Bullet Titled Arena July 2026! 🏆️ FM BrightFalcon finished in 2nd place, GM Pranav Venkatesh in 3rd, GM Sergei Zhigalko in 4th, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk in 5th! All games & full standings: lichess.org/tournament/j... 📷️ Lennart Ootes / FIDE

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

Congrats to team IQPI by Irina Petrova for winning the 6th ChessMood GP Qualifier with top scorers Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, Yoseph Theolifus Taher, beranboyeokuzde, LOTOSI, Psbc2 & many others! 🎉 Thanks to all participating streamers & 1,799 registered players! 🙌 lichess.org/tournament/C...

Get ready for our next Streamer Arena on 27 July 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...

Join us in celebrating the 200th Lichess Rapid League, starting now at 16:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/i... The Lichess Rapid League takes place every Monday, with more than 200 teams and 1,500 players.

Were you watching the World Cup or playing chess? Well, we have the stats for it... (1/2)

If anyone plays chess on lichess, could you do me a favour and play my mistake-making chess bot in a rated game? lichess.org/@/SquareFish.... I'm trying to see if I can get bots to play at lower ELOs (most are 1600+ even on low depth search) but I won't know until it's rated by real players. Thanks!

The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on 20 July 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...

You can now see your game accuracy broken down by phase - opening, middlegame, and endgame! Just request a computer analysis in the analysis board as usual, completely free forever.

Renato Terry wins the Lichess Blitz Titled Arena July 2026! 🏆️ Oleksandr Bortnyk finished in 2nd place, Yoseph Theolifus Taher in 3rd, Shant Sargsyan in 4th, and Emin Ohanyan in 5th! All games & full standings: lichess.org/tournament/j... 📷️ Lennart Ootes / FIDE

Our Blitz Titled Arena starts today at 19:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/j... 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/j...

Watch the finals of the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Europe Online Qualifier now on Lichess, and tune in for live commentary with WFM Lile Koridze on YouTube! Lichess: lichess.org/broadcast/wr... YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM9P...

WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 - Europe Leg Online Qualifier on Lichess

8 players have advanced to the final KO (Stage 3) of the European leg online qualifier of the WR Women’s Chess Tour 2026 on…

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Congratulations to IM Mai Narva for winning the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Africa Online Qualifier on Lichess and qualifying for the $40,000 over-the-board event in Maputo, Mozambique! 🎉 Replay the games: lichess.org/broadcast/wr... 📷 European Chess Union

The finals of the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Africa Online Qualifier are taking place on Lichess and have just started! Follow all the games in our broadcast: lichess.org/broadcast/wr... Watch the live commentary with WFM Lile Koridze: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtMb...

WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 - Africa Leg Online Qualifier on Lichess

8 players have advanced to the final KO (Stage 3) of the Africa leg qualifier of the WR Women’s Chess Tour 2026 on…

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Our Titled Arena schedule from July to September 2026 has been announced: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl... As usual, each Titled Arena has a total prize fund of $1,000 and will be preceded by a Warm-up Arena open to all players.

Titled Arenas Announcement — July to September 2026

Announcing our schedule for upcoming Titled Arenas!

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

Congrats Blundered_Match on winning the Lichess Game of the Month May 2026! 🎉 www.youtube.com/shorts/g9S8b... Replay the game: lichess.org/PVp986XZ

Lichess Game of the Month May 2026 🔥 Congrats, Blundered_Match! 🎉

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The 2026 Naroditsky Memorial Rapid & Blitz by the Charlotte Chess Center is about to start! Follow all the games on Lichess: lichess.org/broadcast/20... In memory of GM Daniel Naroditsky (1995-2025), the beloved chess grandmaster, commentator, and content creator.

More new features and improvements were added to Lichess! 🔥 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 WR Women's Chess Tour Africa Online Qualifier today at 18:30 UTC and the Europe Online Qualifier tomorrow at 16:00 UTC on Lichess! Africa Online Qualifier: lichess.org/tournament/y... Europe Online Qualifier: lichess.org/tournament/2...

GM Andrew Tang wins the Lichess Bullet Titled Arena June 2026! 🏆️ FM BrightFalcon finished in 2nd place, GM Matthias Blübaum in 3rd, GM Christopher Yoo in 4th, and IM Robert Piliposyan in 5th! All games & full standings: lichess.org/tournament/j... 📷️ Charlotte Chess Center

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

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, Available wherever you get your datasets!