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Our next edition of Ladder Legends features GM Vetoshko facing GM Oleksiyenko in the rematch! Oleksiyenko won the 1st game, but has the black pieces this time. Join us on October 28 at 16:00 UTC with host IM Emil Stefanov! YouTube: www.youtube.com/@LichessDotOrg Twitch: www.twitch.tv/lichessdotorg

Tune in now to the Lichess4545 Season 50 livestream with NM Marc Nassar on Twitch! www.twitch.tv/chesswithjor...

Import chess positions from images on the Lichess mobile app! Press the camera icon in the Board editor, and choose between taking or uploading a picture. Download the app: lichess.org/mobile

Our 2026 Autumn Marathon starts at midnight UTC! 🌐 Join us for 24 hours of 3+0 Blitz and take part in one of the biggest chess tournaments in history: lichess.org/tournament/a... The top 500, top 100, top 50, top 10, and the winner will all get a unique trophy.

GM Daniel King is now live for Round 5 of Lichess4545 Season 50! 🤩 Tune in to Daniel King's live commentary: www.twitch.tv/chesswithjor...

Lichess has resumed cooperation with US Chess after positive changes. Read about our decision in full at lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...

Our chess position evaluations dataset just crossed 1 billion rows on Hugging Face. This means that there are now 1 billion Stockfish evaluations from games played on Lichess, available to download for any purpose! Check it out: huggingface.co/datasets/Lic...

We recap our successful weekend of chess, work, and camaraderie at our 2026 Lichess Meetup in Prague: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl... Thank you to everyone who joined us, and special thanks to Chess House Praha and national arbiter Dominik Rous for helping us out with the event!

Tune in now for Round 4 of Lichess4545 Season 50 - again with NM Marc Nassar! www.twitch.tv/chesswithjor...

IM Renato Terry wins our Blitz Titled Arena October 2026, ahead of IM Reza Mahdavi, GM Saparmyrat Atabayev, FM Dinçer Taşdöğen & GM Mahdi Gholami Orimi! 🏆 Find all the games & full standings on Lichess: lichess.org/tournament/o... 📷️ Lennart Ootes / FIDE

Our Blitz Titled Arena October 2026 starts at 19:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/o... Join our 3+0 Warm-up Arena at 18:00 UTC to play against some of the titled players before the Titled Arena: lichess.org/tournament/o...

The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on 20th October at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams, with the $10,000 Grand Final coming up in December. ➡️ Join and register your team now: lichess.org/tournament/C...

Team K2N_chess by FM Konstantin Kostin won the third Streamer Arena in a row! 🎉 Congratulations and thanks to all participating streamers & 1,429 registered players! 🙌 lichess.org/tournament/o...

GM Peter Svidler is now live for Round 3 of Lichess4545 Season 50! Tune in to Peter Svidler's live commentary: www.twitch.tv/chesswithjor...

Can you solve our daily puzzle today? lichess.org/training/jrOAZ

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

Congrats rcstinson on winning the Lichess Game of the Month August 2026! 🎉 Thank you for all your countless submissions! 🙌 Replay the game: lichess.org/zcvQl5Gm/black www.youtube.com/shorts/QIQT_...

Enjoy our Puzzle Pack for the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad 2026, curated and annotated by FM Nazmi Can Doğan and FM Tamer Tarık Selbes! 🧩 The study contains 64 exciting and instructive puzzles for you to solve and learn from. ➡️ lichess.org/study/Zwqt6BdF

Tune in now for Round 2 of Lichess4545 Season 50 - with NM Marc Nassar! www.twitch.tv/chesswithjor...

One year later, we look back at the 2025 Lichess Meetup in Toronto, which saw three days of chess, work, and a whole lot of fun: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl... Many thanks again to the Annex Chess Club for hosting us and a fantastic tournament: annexchessclub.com

Congrats IQPI by WIM Irina Petrova on winning the 8th ChessMood GP Qualifier with top scorers IM Yoseph Taher, GM Kingdomino1, BundesligaChampion, FM Cristian Arrieta Hernández, and many others! 🎉 Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,129 registered players! 🙌 lichess.org/tournament/C...

Get ready for our next Streamer Arena on October 5th at 16:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4: lichess.org/tournament/o... If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, register now: lichess.org/page/streame...

The second edition of Ladder Legends by Lichess has started! Join us now on YouTube and Twitch: YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qHo... Twitch: www.twitch.tv/lichessdotorg Lichess: lichess.org/broadcast/la...

GM Oleksandr Bortnyk won our Bullet Titled Arena September 2026, ahead of GM Brandon Jacobson, IM Robert Piliposyan, GM Artem Uskov, & IM BrightFalcon! 🏆️ Find all the games & full standings on Lichess: lichess.org/tournament/s... 📷️ Charlotte Chess Center

🧩 Black increases the pressure on the d-file - can you find White's brilliant response to win the game? GM Humpy Koneru secured Bronze for Team India 🇮🇳 thanks to this last-round victory over GM Nana Dzagnidze of Team Georgia!🥉 Solution: lichess.org/broadcast/46... #chesspuzzle #chessolympiad

Matthew Aziz from Gambia secured the CM title! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5ku...

Bodhana Sivanandan is the youngest WGM in history! 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyxG...

🥇🥇IM Lu Miaoyi after winning both team & individual Gold with the Chinese Women's team www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iiu...

Final standings of the 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad Samarkand 2026! 🥇 🥈 🥉