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Our Game of the Month June Contest is underway: Share your best Lichess standard game played in June 2026 until 2026-07-13 00:00 UTC! The winner will be announced on 2026-07-24, followed by a blog post with commentary on the game.

Start in 10 min: https://lichess.org/tournament/KmypyZxv 661. Lichess Bundesliga All team pairings: https://lichess.org/forum/team-lichess-discord-bundesliga-team/661-lichess-bundesliga-july-2nd-team-pairings-full-stats

More new features and improvements were added to Lichess! 🔥 See what our developers and community contributors have been working on in the updated changelog and discuss the changes in our feedback forum.

Congratulations to team Online World Chess Lovers by @Gouravprithyani for winning the 5th ChessMood 20/20 Grand Prix 2026 Qualifier with top scorers IM Renato Alfredo Terry Luján, FM Dinçer Taşdöğen, @minisnake, IM Reza Mahdavi, IM @querencia, and many others! Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,183 registered players!

All women players with a FIDE title are welcome to join the WR Women's Chess Tour Africa Online Qualifier on 2026-06-30 18:30 UTC and the Europe Online Qualifier on 2026-07-01 16:00 UTC on Lichess! Find out more in the Africa Qualifier Announcement and Europe Qualifier Announcement by WR Chess.

Start in 1h 40 min: 197. Lichess Rapid League ℹ️ https://lichess.org/forum/team-rapid-league-info/lichess-rapid-league-197th-edition-june-29th-monday-all-team-pairings-full-stats#JtsU38I1

♟Start in 1h: lichess.org/tournament/qKOy0qz1 660. Lichess Bundesliga with 500+ teams ℹ️ All team pairings: lichess.org/forum/team-lichess-discord-bundesliga-team/660-lichess-bundesliga-june-28th-team-pairings-full-stats 👉 JOIN for our Lichess Discord Bundesliga Team: lichess.org/tournament/gFfBtNWl

Congratulations to GM Andrew Tang for winning our Bullet Titled Arena June 2026, ahead of FM @BrightFalcon, GM Matthias Blübaum, GM Christopher Yoo, and IM Robert Piliposyan!

Our June 1+0 Warm-up Arena starts today, 2026-06-27 17:00 UTC! Play against some of the titled players before they enter our Bullet Titled Arena at 19:00 UTC.

Congrats @Blundered\_Match on winning the Lichess Game of the Month May 2026! Thank you for all your countless submissions!

We recently crossed 6 million chess puzzles in our open database. Like the platform itself, Lichess data is free and open source. Go and build something cool with it! Also available on Hugging Face and Kaggle.

Start in 14 minutes: https://lichess.org/forum/team-lichess-discord-bundesliga-team/659-lichess-bundesliga-june-25th-team-pairings-full-stats#tTIdFFIw

Congratulations to team Ronaldo Playing Chess by @jack2212 for winning our Streamer Arena June 2026! Congrats also to ELITE STARS UNITED for taking 2nd place, to K2N\_chess for 3rd place, and to TIM NASIONAL CATUR ONLINE INDONESIA for 4th place. Thanks to all participating streamers and 1,280 registered players!

Start in 1,5h: 196. Lichess Rapid League https://lichess.org/tournament/LGTrchMB ℹ️ https://lichess.org/forum/team-rapid-league-info/lichess-rapid-league-196th-edition-june-22nd-monday-all-team-pairings-full-stats#yKgQQKBr

Watch our 2026 FIDE World Team Rapid & Blitz Championships Winner's Interview with Ding Liren!

Watch our 2026 FIDE World Team Rapid & Blitz Championships Winner's Interview with Ding Liren! 🏆 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHV8D-mvBJ0

♟ Start in 50 minutes: https://lichess.org/tournament/JdBvwfei 658. Lichess Bundesliga with 500+ teams and 4000+ players ℹ️ https://lichess.org/forum/team-lichess-discord-bundesliga-team/658-lichess-bundesliga-june-21st-team-pairings-full-stats

Team Dragon Chilling won the FIDE World Team Blitz Chess Championship 2026, clinching the double title after already winning the Rapid Championship! Check out our final recap blog to find out what happened on the last day.

Join us in celebrating 48 successful Lichess4545 seasons in the faster 15+15 Season 49 Kick-off Arena today, 2026-06-21 17:00 UTC! Lichess4545 has over 800 active members and hundreds of games played on a weekly basis.

Lichess turns 16 today! Thank you to all our players, contributors, and supporters! Let's celebrate together in our Anniversary Arena, starting at 12:00 UTC.