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Lichess is only possible because of the generous time and help given by our volunteers.

If you like editing videos, designing graphics or writing and want to join the hundreds of volunteers at Lichess, our Content & Social Media Team is currently looking for help!

➡️ Read more and apply: https://forms.gle/Dh9NgvdeNhdV7S1Y6

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Congratulations to GM legendreturns for winning our Blitz Titled Arena March 2026! 🏆️

Congrats also to FM Havard Haug for 2nd place, CM innocentguy for 3rd place, IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján for 4th place, and GM Oleksandr Bortnyk for 5th place!

➡️ All games & full standings: https://lichess.org/tournament/mar26bta

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Our March Blitz Titled Arena starts today at 20:00 UTC: https://lichess.org/tournament/mar26bta

Play against some of the titled players in our 3+0 Warm-up Arena at 19:00 UTC: https://lichess.org/tournament/mar26bua

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Studies are one our most powerful features. Learn how to use them in this guide by Anthony Giles!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7t9OPl7ojU

The next $1,000 ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix Qualifier will be held on 20 March at 20:00 UTC!

The event is open to all Lichess streamer teams: https://lichess.org/tournament/CMQ26Mar

Read our full announcement and register your team now: https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/announcing-the-chessmood-2020-grand-prix-2026/Y7sU143E#registration

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More new features and improvements were added to Lichess last month!

See what the developers and community contributors have been working on in our full changelog: https://lichess.org/changelog

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Get ready for our next Streamer Arena on 16 March at 16:00 UTC, with prizes for streamers whose teams finish in the top 4: https://lichess.org/tournament/mar26str

If you're a streamer and want to participate with your team, register now: https://lichess.org/page/streamer-arena

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Lichess tournament highlights of the week - save the dates!

Congrats NM visualdennis on winning our Women's Day 2026 Arena ahead of Sergofanchik2026, OM64, Savateyev, and LM Lance5500! 🎉

Thank you to all 3,007 registered players who celebrated International Women's Day with us, playing 5,250 games and making 270,747 moves. 🙌

https://lichess.org/tournament/women026

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"Advanced Search" Status Update: https://lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/advanced-search-status

All games starting from 1 December 2025 are now available for our "Advanced search" and we are experimenting with a different search backend to improve the feature.

Games before 1 December might not be available in the search yet, but we are continuing to backfill all game data and will update you again.

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Happy International Women's Day! 🎊

Let's celebrate together in our thematic Women's Day Arena at 16:00 UTC: https://lichess.org/tournament/women026

All games will start from a position of the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship 2025 between GM Ju Wenjun and GM Tan Zhongyi, where Tan played a very rare opening idea.

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Congratulations to Vaclav Finek on winning the 2026 Prague International Chess Festival Challengers!

Replay the games: https://lichess.org/broadcast/prague-international-chess-festival-2026--challengers/B50z5Q1e

📷 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a9z4NODJPg

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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: https://lichess.org/broadcast/prague-international-chess-festival-2026--masters/round-5/KoV4BlPM/hNXat1KD

📷️ 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: https://lichess.org/broadcast/prague-international-chess-festival-2026--challengers/round-6/ZckvB3hF/n9ieg3lJ#72

📷️ Stefan64, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojpd4l-I1T4

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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: https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/lichess-game-of-the-month-february-2026-contest

The winner will be announced on March 24, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game: https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/lichess-game-of-the-month-january-26/suNJtZUH

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Our "Advanced search" feature for games is currently missing recent games because we have 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 functioning properly again.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

https://github.com/lichess-org/lila-search/issues/719

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How many steps in a "chain of victories" separate you from your favorite player? Try the community-built site https://chess.tutlis.com and tell us your number ⬇️

Congrats stormy2018 on winning the Lichess Game of the Month January 2026! 🎉

Thank you for all your countless submissions! 🙌

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/D7ZpNhC77EQ

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Our puzzles are back and all related features have been restored.

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Our puzzles and related features are currently unavailable due to a server issue with our hosting provider.

We apologise for any inconvenience and will give an update when the features are restored.

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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.

https://lichess.org/broadcast/prague-international-chess-festival-2026--masters/6u6ftFhp

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Congratulations to IM Yoseph Team for winning the 1st ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 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!

https://lichess.org/tournament/CMQ26Feb

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The server issue has been resolved, according to our hosting provider, and we don't expect any further outages.

https://network.status-ovhcloud.com/incidents/69gm8j6k1td5

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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.

Monitoring status: https://network.status-ovhcloud.com/incidents/69gm8j6k1td5

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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.

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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.

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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. Find out more in our announcement: https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/queens-online-chess-festival/YwpMPp8y

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Start in 30 min: 624. Lichess Bundesliga with 500+ teams and 4000+ players: https://lichess.org/tournament/OKOeDeeR Links of all leagues: https://lichess.org/forum/team-lichess-discord-bundesliga-team/624-lichess-bundesliga--february-22nd--team-pairings

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX0nnJju0h4

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDLaaKSALAk

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Congratulations to team Ronaldo Playing Chess by jack2212 for winning our Streamer Arena February 2026! 🎉

Congrats also to K2N_chess for taking 2nd place, to IM YOSEPH AND FRIENDS for 3rd place, and to TIM NASIONAL CATUR ONLINE INDONESIA for 4th place.

Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,438 registered players!

All games and full standings: https://lichess.org/tournament/feb26str

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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: https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/announcing-the-chessmood-2020-grand-prix-2026/Y7sU143E

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Happy #YearOfTheHorse from Lichess! May your new year be full of brilliant knight forks.

GM Magnus Carlsen is the 2026 FIDE Freestyle Chess World Champion! 🏆️

Carlsen defeated GM Fabiano Caruana 2.5 to 1.5 in the final, while GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov took 3rd place against GM Vincent Keymer.

Replay the games: https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-freestyle-chess-world-championship-2026--finals/uewg0GKW

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Our January 2025 free and open databases are now available for download!

Together we played over 100,000,000 rated standard games last month and Antichess crossed 30 million rated games in total: https://database.lichess.org/

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Check out NoseKnowsAll's new study on the Caro-Kann! https://lichess.org/study/8isfzJc8
The study is designed for lichess players rated below 2000. It is organized into 6 sections, each representing a key variation of the Caro-Kann.

The emphasis is on understanding, not memorizing!

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