LichessLichess Game of the Month: May '26
IM datajunkieWhy most game reviews don't make you better
lucaistschlechtLessons Learned - Part 1
ConfusedAudienceSharing my Smith-Morra Gambit study site
jdannanIlkley Open 2026
FM BuendiaChessThe Comeback Nobody Expected
RuyLopez1000The Essence of a Player: Your Chess Fingerprint
jk_182Comparing Different Ways to Calculate Accuracy
gh0strpmAnalyzing Random Player's Games - Week #3
More new features and improvements were added to Lichess! See what our developers and community contributors have been working on in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum.
Congratulations to team Online World Chess Lovers by @Gouravprithyani for winning the 5th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026 Qualifier with top scorers IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, FM Dinçer Taşdöğen, @minisnake, IM Reza Mahdavi, IM @querencia, and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,183 registered players!
All women players with a FIDE title are welcome to join the WR Women's Chess Tour Africa Online Qualifier on and the Europe Online Qualifier on on Lichess! Find out more in the Africa Qualifier Announcement and Europe Qualifier Announcement by WR Chess.
Congratulations to GM Andrew Tang for winning our Bullet Titled Arena June 2026, ahead of FM @BrightFalcon, GM Matthias Blübaum, GM Christopher Yoo, and IM Robert Piliposyan!
Our June 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, ! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Bullet Titled Arena at .
Congrats @Blundered_Match on winning the Lichess Game of the Month May 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
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! Also available on Hugging Face and Kaggle.
