Taking Lichess to the Next Level

 Our current setup and our future plans | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 1 year ago

The secret to lasting love for chess

Why do passionate players lose their love for chess and quit? How to keep loving chess, despite the painful defeats? GM Avetik reveals the secrets here... | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 1 year ago

Hikaru Nakamura's Forbidden Platform

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@lichess.org | 1 year ago

Lichess Carlsen Number

Find out if you (indirectly) beat the current World Champion | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 1 year ago

The Lichess World Championship

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@lichess.org | 1 year ago

Hackers Leak Lichess Source Code

All our inner workings exposed! | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 2 years ago

Lichess Variants: Crazyhouse, Chess960, King of the Hill, Three-Check

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@lichess.org | 2 years ago

Lichess Statement on the War in Ukraine

“Truth is the first casualty of war” - Ethel Annakin | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 2 years ago

How I started building Lichess (2021)

I get this question sometimes. How did you decide to make a chess server? The truth is, I didn't. | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 2 years ago

Our recent server issues – – Lichess

A quick update on what happened yesterday | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 2 years ago

Who is the most accurate World Chess Champion?

Do chess players dream of electric fish? | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 2 years ago

Happy Birthday Mikhail Tal

Mikhail Tal was born 9th November 1936 - today is his birthday! | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 2 years ago

The World Champions' Weirdest Pets – Wilhelm Steinitz and the Vienna Game

This series of articles will cover some of the weirdest openings world champions have played consistently. | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 2 years ago

Lichess Announcing the Personal Opening Explorer

Indexing RandomMoverBot ... | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 2 years ago

ChessCoach is – Chess engine with live natural-language text commentary

BOT PlayChessCoach (2536) plays axelfontaine (1550) in a casual Rapid (5+5) game of chess. Game is still being played after 13 moves. Click to replay, analyse, and discuss the game! | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 2 years ago

Fat Fritz is not the Only Ripoff and now ChessBase is Getting Sued

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@lichess.org | 2 years ago

You Don't Get to Know Who Won the Titled Arena, Sorry

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@lichess.org | 2 years ago

Stockfish 13 Neural Network Engine in Browser on Lichess

The latest release of the strong open source engine is now available in your browser! | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 2 years ago

Why Lichess will always be free

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@lichess.org | 2 years ago

Why Lichess will always be free

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@lichess.org | 2 years ago

Video Game Pianist on Lichess Streams

PianoChess - Playing Piano and Chess at the Same Time! | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 3 years ago

Lichess: Is it that nonprofit? (2018)

Lichess call themselves a non-profit-organization and I am quite sure that most people (especially the ones donating to the site) assume that their dona… | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 3 years ago

Maia, a human-like neural network chess engine

A guest post from the Maia Team | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 3 years ago

Block Ads and Trackers

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@lichess.org | 3 years ago

New Puzzles on Lichess

The wait is over. | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 3 years ago

Stockfish 12 on Lichess

Shorter waits for stronger analysis | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 3 years ago

Chess960 Tournament Featuring Kasparov, Carlsen Starting Today

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@lichess.org | 3 years ago

The power of free open source chess

Free online chess server. Play chess in a clean interface. No registration, no ads, no plugin required. Play chess with the computer, friends or random opponents. | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 3 years ago

Chess Panopticon

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@lichess.org | 3 years ago

Show HN: A Lichess Team for HNers

Team for hackers from https://news.ycombinator.com/news | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 3 years ago

Chess World Champion playing on lichess.org

GM DrNykterstein (2816) plays GM Amin_____tb (2611) in a rated Blitz (3+0) game of chess. Game is still being played after 12 moves. Click to replay, analyse, and discuss the game! | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 4 years ago

Welcome Lichess Boards – A new way to play on Lichess

A new way to play on Lichess! | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 4 years ago

Lichess end of year update 2019

Thank you all for your support! | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 4 years ago

Lichess.org Is Down

Free online chess server. Play chess in a clean interface. No registration, no ads, no plugin required. Play chess with the computer, friends or random opponents. | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 4 years ago

Lichess rating distributions display peaks at round numbers

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@lichess.org | 4 years ago

Lichess v2 Is Here

Same Lichess, just better | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 4 years ago

Improved chess game compression

Storing games efficiently with move ordering heuristics and Huffman coding | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 5 years ago

The world's first free 7-piece tablebase on Lichess

Use the world's first free 7-piece tablebase on Lichess! | Continue reading


@lichess.org | 5 years ago