The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on 2026-10-20 at 20:00 UTC! The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams. Read our full announcement and register your team now.

Our Titled Arena schedule from October to December 2026 has been announced! As usual, each Titled Arena features a prize fund of $1,000 and will be preceded by a Warm-up Arena open to all players. The next Blitz Titled Arena takes place on 2026-10-17 at 19:00 UTC.

Congratulations to team K2N_chess by FM Konstantin Kostin for winning our Streamer Arena October 2026! Congrats also to Online World Chess Lovers for taking 2nd place, to TIM NASIONAL CATUR ONLINE INDONESIA for 3rd place, and to CSCA Open Events for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,429 registered players!

GM Peter Svidler is now live for Round 3 of Lichess4545 Season 50! Tune in on Twitch for Peter Svidler's live commentary.

The new season of the German Bundesliga has started! Follow all the games now in our broadcast, featuring GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Richard Rapport, Matthias Blübaum, Faustino Oro, and more!

Our Board Editor now supports importing board positions from images! Select "From image" or drag and drop the image onto the board. Many thanks to Joël Seytre for the underlying ChessQueries recognition model, also available on chessq.org! Lichess uses the ChessQ Lite V4 model under the PolyForm Noncommercial license. The feature will also come to our mobile app soon.

Our Game of the Month September Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in September 2026 until 2026-10-13 at 00:00 UTC! The winner will be announced on 2026-10-24, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.