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 nowfeaturing IM Alua NurmanIM Dinara Wagner and IM Anna M. Sargsyanamong 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 2026-05-14 00:00 UTC! The winner will be announced on 2026-05-24followed 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 broadcastfeaturing GM Awonder LiangGM Aryan ChopraGM Francesco SonisGM Gleb Dudinand 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 placeto The United Royal Legion for 3rd placeand 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 workerswe just have to work together. Thank you to all our contributors and check out our contributing pageif you want to get involved. Whatever you dofight 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.