Congratulations to Vaclav Finek on winning the 2026 Prague International Chess Festival Challengers!
Replay the games: lichess.org/broadcast/pr...
📷 Dominik Töpfer
Congratulations to Nodirbek Abdusattorov on winning the 2026 Prague International Chess Festival Masters!
GM Vincent Keymer joined us for an interview after playing against World Champion Gukesh Dommaraju in Round 8 of the Prague Chess Festival 2026!
➡️ Watch our interview with Keymer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a9z...
GM David Navara played an exciting and beautiful masterpiece against GM Nodirbek Yakubboev in Round 5 of the Prague Chess Festival Masters 2026🔥
➡️ Replay the spectacular game: lichess.org/broadcast/pr...
📷️ Dominik Töpfer
GM Benjamin Gledura's next move made IM Jachym Nemec immediately resign in Round 6 of the Prague Chess Festival Challengers 2026!
Can you find the move? It's even better than Bxg7 👀
See the solution on Lichess: lichess.org/broadcast/pr...
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GM Aravindh Chithambaram defeated the reigning World Champion, GM Gukesh Dommaraju, in Round 6 of the Prague Chess Festival Masters 2026!
➡️ Watch our post-game interview and analysis with Aravindh: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojpd...
Our Game of the Month February Contest is underway!
Share your best Lichess standard game played in February 2026 until March 12 in our forum: lichess.org/forum/genera...
The winner will be announced on March 24, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...
Our "Advanced search" feature for games is currently missing recent games because we reached the maximum number of games that can be indexed.
We are working on a fix and will give an update when the feature is working properly again.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
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How many steps in a "chain of victories" separate you from your favorite player? Try the community-built site chess.tutlis.com and tell us your number ⬇️
GM Nihal Sarin wins our Bullet Titled Arena February 2026! 🏆️
IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján finished in 2nd place, followed by GM Andrew Tang, GM Emin Ohanyan, and FM Daniil Rakitin.
Full standings & all games: lichess.org/tournament/f...
Our February Bullet Titled Arena starts today at 20:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/f...
Play against some of the titled players in our 1+0 Warm-up Arena at 18:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/f...
Replay the Lichess Game of the Month January 2026: lichess.org/wegCmGmt/black
Congrats stormy2018 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month January 2026! 🎉
Thank you for all your countless submissions! 🙌
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Our puzzles are back and all related features have been restored.
Our puzzles and related features are currently unavailable due to a server issue with our hosting provider.
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The Prague International Chess Festival 2026 has started!
Follow all the games between World Champion GM Gukesh Dommaraju, GM Vincent Keymer, GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, GM Hans Niemann and others in our broadcast until 6 March.
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Congrats to IM Yoseph Team on winning the 1st ChessMood 20/20 GP 2026 Qualifier with top scorers IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, GM Emin Ohanyan, IM Jakub Pulpan, IM Robert Piliposyan, and many others!
Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,841 registered players!
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The server issue has been resolved, according to our hosting provider, and we don't expect any further outages.
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All our functionality should currently be restored, but we expect further outages in the near future due to server disruption and will keep you updated.
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Due to the current outage affecting 3 of our database servers, puzzles and insights are temporarily unavailable, and most site features may have errors - including tournaments, game play, and broadcasts.
We will give an update when these issues are resolved, and apologise for any inconvenience.
Our servers hosting features related to puzzles and insights are experiencing unscheduled downtime, due to issues with our hosting provider. Other features may also be affected.
We will give an update when these issues are resolved, and apologise for any inconvenience.
The Queens' Online Chess Festival is a series of online Blitz tournaments and open to all women and girls!
The festival is organised by the FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess and will take place on Lichess from 1 to 29 March.
Interested players can register now: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...
Start in 30 min: 624. Lichess Bundesliga with 500+ teams and 4000+ players: lichess.org/tournament/O... Links of all leagues: lichess.org/forum/team-l...
Join our hosts IM Laura Unuk and GM Markus Ragger now for the Bled Chess Festival Qualifiers Finals!
The top 3 players will qualify for the Bled Chess Festival 2026 and receive an accommodation package.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX0n...
Watch the Bled Chess Festival Qualifiers Semifinals now with our hosts IM Laura Unuk & GM Markus Ragger!
The top 30 players will qualify for the Finals tomorrow.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLa...
Congratulations to team Ronaldo Playing Chess by jack2212 for winning our Streamer Arena February 2026! 🎉
Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,438 registered players!
All games and full standings: lichess.org/tournament/f...
Register for the first Qualifier Arena on 20th February at 20:00 UTC: lichess.org/tournament/C...
The $20,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix returns for a new season and will again be held on the 20th of each month at 20:00 UTC from February to December on Lichess!
The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams.
➡️ Read our full announcement: lichess.org/@/Lichess/bl...
Happy #YearOfTheHorse from Lichess! May your new year be full of brilliant knight forks.
