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!
More new features and improvements were added to Lichess last month! See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum.
Congratulations to team Online World Chess Lovers by @Gouravprithyani for winning the 4th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026 Qualifier with top scorers IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, GM Emin Ohanyan, IM Reza Mahdavi, FM Dinçer Taşdöğen, and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,667 registered players!
The finals of the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Americas Online Qualifier are taking place on Lichess and have just started! Tune in for live commentary by former Women's World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk on YouTube and watch all the games in our broadcast, featuring IM Leya Garifullina, IM Mai Narva, IM Teodora Injac and IM Tatev Abrahamyan, among others. Read the announcement for more information.
Congratulations to GM Ediz Gürel for winning our Bullet Titled Arena May 2026, ahead of GM Sergei Zhigalko, GM José Martínez Alcántara, GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, and IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján!
Our May 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Bullet Titled Arena at .
Congratulations to team The United Royal Legion by @TheoLego for winning our Streamer Arena May 2026! Congrats also to TIM NASIONAL CATUR ONLINE INDONESIA for taking 2nd place, to K2N_chess for 3rd place, and to ChessExpertsTeam for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,433 registered players!
All women players with a FIDE title are welcome to join the online qualifier for the WR Women’s Chess Tour 2026 Americas Leg! The first stage starts on . Find out more in the announcement by WR Chess.
Congratulations to IM Anna M. Sargsyan for winning the WR Women's Chess Tour 2026 Asia Online Qualifier on Lichess and qualifying for the $40,000 over-the-board event in Tokyo, Japan! Sargsyan defeated WFM Shubhi Gupta in the finals, while IM Alua Nurman took 3rd place against WIM Pandey Srishti.
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.
Faustino Oro achieved his third and final GM norm at the Sardinia World Chess Festival 2026, becoming the second-youngest grandmaster of all time at the age of 12 years, 6 months and 26 days! The record is still held by GM Abhimanyu Mishra, who was 2 months and 1 day younger than Oro.
Congratulations to IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján for winning our Blitz Titled Arena May 2026, ahead of GM Oleksandr Bortnyk, IM Yoseph Theolifus Taher, GM Christopher Yoo, and GM Artem Uskov!
Our May 3+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Blitz Titled Arena at .
Watch the second Swiss qualifier for the FIDE World University Team Chess Championship 2026 now in our broadcast! The top 16 teams from each Swiss tournament advance to the knockout stage on Lichess, with 8 teams qualifying for the over-the-board finals in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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.
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. Read the announcement for more information.
Our Game of the Month April Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in April 2026 until ! The winner will be announced on , followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
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 GM Awonder Liang, GM Aryan Chopra, GM Francesco Sonis, GM Gleb Dudin, and many more.
Congratulations to team Шустрий кабан by @detective_378 for winning our Streamer Arena April 2026! Congrats also to K2N_chess for taking 2nd place, to The United Royal Legion for 3rd place, and to The Dark Horse Youtube and Twitch Community for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,638 registered players!
Happy International Workers' Day! Great things are possible without exploiting workers, we just have to work together. Thank you to all our contributors and check out our contributing page, if you want to get involved. Whatever you do, fight for your rights!
Congrats @FinalSpot on winning the Lichess Game of the Month March 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
More new features and improvements were added to Lichess last month! See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum.