The favourites prevailed, but some big individual upsets occurred along the way: Read our Olympiad Budapest 2024 Round 1 recap blog and join us again at 13:00 UTC on YouTube and Twitch for Round 2 with our host GM Illia Nyzhnyk and live camera feeds!
Join us on YouTube and Twitch in just one hour at 13:00 UTC for Round 1 of the Olympiad Budapest 2024 with our hosts GM Illia Nyzhnyk and IM Eric Rosen - including live camera feeds!
You can now enable the new Stockfish 17 (79MB net) for analysis in the engine settings menu! Stockfish 16 is still available with a smaller 7MB net. Thanks to the Stockfish team for developing and providing their free and open-source engine!
Watch our latest interview and analysis with none other than IM Eric Rosen and of course our Lewis Chess Legends stream host IM Irene Sukandar!
Lichess had a productive August, with a total of 141 pull requests from 33 contributors, including 9 first-time ones! Check out more details on our updated changelog.
Our August 2024 free and open databases are available for download, bringing the total number of games now to over 5.9 billion in standard chess and 119 million across variants!
The September 3+0 SuperBlitz Shield Arena, the second of seven daily Shield Arenas this week, starts in 2 hours! The winner will get a unique trophy and keep it until next month's tournament.
Check out our series of interviews and analyses on YouTube with famous players such as the former highest rated woman in the world, GM Pia Cramling, and Magnus Carlsen's main second in the 2013 World Championship match, GM Jon Ludvig Hammer - more to come!
Our Game of the Month August Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in August 2024 until 5 September! The winner will be announced on 14 September, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.
We have updated our Masters Database with about 200,000 new games since 2022, now available in the Opening Explorer!
Clicking on a player's name in broadcasts now redirects you to a new, mobile-friendly page with more information about the player in the tournament.
Congratulations to GM Nihal Sarin for winning our Titled Arena August 2024, tied with GM Daniel Naroditsky, but with a 23-point better performance as the tiebreaker! GM Javohir Sindarov took 3rd place.
Our next 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts in just 3 hours at 16:00 UTC! You will have the chance again to play against some of the titled players before they enter the Titled Arena!
Congratulations to Ronaldo Playing Chess for winning the Streamers Battle August 2024! Congrats also to runners-up IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS, Zhigalko_Sergei & Friends for taking 3rd place and IM Manitodeplomo Fan Club for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,852 registered players!
Hovering over player names in broadcast games will now display additional information, including their previous games and opponents, estimated Elo rating change and score! This information is also available in the new Players tab, which you can sort by clicking on one of the column titles.
The first of six FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-25 tournaments started in Tbilisi, Georgia! Until 24 August, some of the strongest women, including former World Champions Alexandra Kosteniuk and Mariya Muzychuk, GMs R Vaishali, Anna Muzychuk and IM Sara Khadem, will try to earn points for the WGP Series.
Congrats @Schmobi on winning the Lichess Game of the Month July 2024! Thank you for all your countless submissions!
Streamers and their communities, get ready for the next Streamers Battle on 19 August at 15:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4!
Congratulations to IM @Wafwhij02 for winning our Blitz Titled Arena August 2024! IM Mukhiddin Madaminov finished 2nd with a 97% berserk rate and GM Volodar Murzin was just one point behind in 3rd place.
In just 2 hours, you'll have the chance to play against some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena before they enter the Blitz Titled Arena!
Over 30 people contributed code to Lichess last month! See what was worked on in the updated Changelog.
The Lewis Chess Legends 2024 starts today at 15:00 UTC, featuring GM Jon Ludvig Hammer and IM Eric Rosen among others! Join us and our commentator IM Irene Sukandar on YouTube and Twitch every day until 14 August.
Al-Ain ACMG UAE are the World Rapid Team Champions 2024 with their top performers GMs Dmitry Andreikin, Vladislav Artemiev and Parham Maghsoodloo. The first ever World Blitz Team Championship was won by the WR Chess Team, including GMs Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hou Yifan among others.