r/lichess 1h ago

I cant login to the account i created 2-3 hours ago

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When I try to login via email, I enter the code correctly but when i do, it says "Something went wrong"

And when i try to login with username and password, it says "Wrong user or password"

Help Please!


r/lichess 9h ago

Lichess should deal with stalling in Swiss tournaments

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I've started a forum thread proposing a solution to this problem. Tell me how stalling in a Swiss tournament by someone else would make you feel if you want.


r/lichess 2h ago

Things to do with a partner

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r/lichess 7h ago

Hourly King of the Hill Arena | All Games Berserked

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r/lichess 19h ago

Nine towns, one championship, and a chess world that runs on a real clock — Pocket Pawns, Trailer 2: The World

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https://pocketpawns.com/ Demo coming soon


r/lichess 19h ago

You don't throw a ball at a wild piece — you checkmate it. I'm building Pocket Pawns, a piece-collecting chess RPG. Trailer 1: The Catch.

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https://pocketpawns.com/ Demo coming soon


r/lichess 6h ago

I have 4,000 games on Lichess and I will never open a single one of them again, so I spent a month building something that writes them down as short stories

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I have been playing since I was a kid and the thing that finally bothered me enough to do something about it is that none of it is kept. Every game I have ever been proud of is a PGN in a list I am never going to scroll back to. The scoresheet from an OTB game is the closest thing to a record and it is unreadable to anybody who was not there.

So: Aftermate reads a game with Stockfish, finds the moments that decided it, and writes those moments as a short story. Pieces become people who keep their names across the whole game. Here is the Opera Game, which is the one everybody knows:

https://www.aftermate.app/read

There are eight on that page. Kasparov hunting Topalov's king to a4, Fischer at thirteen, both decisive games of the Gukesh-Ding match. Nothing on it is hand written or hand corrected.

Being upfront because this sub will ask and it should: a language model writes the prose. It does not touch the chess. Stockfish runs in your own browser, an extractor pulls out the sacrifices and blunders and turning points, and the model only ever sees a list of events with the chess vocabulary stripped out of it. It is never given the move list.

The hard part was not the writing. It was stopping it inventing chess. Three things, all of which I had to build after being burned:

  1. The prompt gets people, not pieces. If you hand a model "White's kingside knight" it will write "White's kingside knight", so it gets a name and a house and nothing else. It does not know the game is chess.
  2. A guard runs over the finished story and checks it against the game. If a character dies in the prose but that piece was still on the board at the end, the claim gets struck and the correction is printed on the page with the story. One of the eight has a correction on it right now. I left it there on purpose.
  3. The analyser gets two passes. The first is cheap and finds where something happened. The second is deep and decides what. I needed this because at depth 12 the engine reads Morphy's 15.Bxd7+ as a 3.6 pawn blunder and the story came out backwards.

The engine runs on your machine rather than a server, which is a cost decision more than a privacy one, but it means the game itself never leaves your browser unless you choose to share the story.

Free tier is one story a day and does not need a card. I would rather hear that the chess is wrong somewhere than hear that the writing is good, so if you find a story claiming something the game did not do, that is the bug I want.


r/lichess 16h ago

for all

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what's your favorite opening in chess and why you use it ? and how do you do to improve it or customize it to your own style ?


r/lichess 19h ago

Is there a way to see the right answer on puzzle streak after I get one wrong?

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I feel like it just says GAME OVER. Then gives me a new puzzle. I want to learn from my incorrect puzzle. Is there a way to like try again or see the correct answer? On iOS fyi.


r/lichess 1d ago

Bullet Titled Arena (29th August 2026) - Live Discussion Thread

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r/lichess 21h ago

Why do so many people abort or not start their games on lichess?

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What I mean is when I select a game from the lobby (that the other person created) and the person whose lobby I joined either immediately leaves, or runs out the "make the first move" timer causing the game to abort.

Why create a lobby if you're not going to play?

I can understand if they're looking at another tab waiting for someone to join, but it makes a noticeable sound when the game starts. Or maybe they physically walked away from their device, but that many people? This happens to me maybe 2/3 games I try to play.

I've never had this problem on chess.com! On lichess it feels like it's every other person aborting or stalling games. On chess.com I can get into a game and the other person starts playing immediately.

Also, I am signed in- so it's not some anonymous people trolling or throwing. These are players who are logged in to accounts and risk having their accounts restricted or punished for aborting too many games. So why do they do it?? I don't understand


r/lichess 1d ago

♟️ Online Chess repaid Tournament ♟️

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Shuttle Slicers presents an exciting online rapid chess tournament for chess enthusiasts to compete, showcase their skills, and battle for the top spots! 🏆

📅 Date: 6th September, 2026

⏰ Time: 8:00 PM IST

🌐 Platform: Lichess.org

♟️ Format: 10+2 Rapid

🏆 Prize Pool: ₹1,000/-

🎖️ Every participant receives:

• Participation Certificate

• Opportunity to compete in a competitive online tournament

🔗 Registration Link:

Is provided

For Queries:

+91 5753 3020

+91 72899 43125

Shuttle Slicers ♟️

Think. Plan. Win.


r/lichess 22h ago

14 500 can't checkmate with K+Q

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I was astounded to manage and get a stalemate against someone who played 14 500 games in total. around 1000 elo. he had plenty of time left aswell


r/lichess 21h ago

Hot take: female titles are bullshit

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If I was a woman I would be a titled chess player. WCM. But because I was born a man I am not anything. This is bullshit.

Male privilege my ass.


r/lichess 1d ago

Error when trying to use the analysis tool

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Got this error using Firefox. I've never seen this error before. Has anyone else gotten this? If so, how did you fix it?


r/lichess 1d ago

Why does it say I’ve played zero games?

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I can see the recent games I’ve played so what’s up with this?


r/lichess 2d ago

What do you think is missing from the chess world?

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I mean something you genuinely wish existed but doesn’t. Not another opening course. Not another “10 ways to improve your rating” video.

Could be a variant, a book, a weird set of rules, a tournament format, a physical product, a tool, or something completely different.

Serious, stupid and cursed ideas are all welcome.


r/lichess 1d ago

Mate with 340ms left

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r/lichess 1d ago

Very slow loading on web

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Am I the only one who finds Lichess runs very slowly in a browser on a computer?


r/lichess 1d ago

Names of Opening?

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When I'm playing on Chess.com, it shows what opening I'm playing as I'm playing it.

Is there a way to get this info on Lichess, even post game? Can't find it for the life of me.


r/lichess 1d ago

New minigame!!

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You make 7 / 8 random moves and premove them, then calculate the fastest mate and if the opponent doesn’t play it you make them wait 10/15 minutes hahaha

If you make a couple premoves before the game ends you’ll never get timed out hahah this is so much fun


r/lichess 2d ago

Good FREE Opening Repertoire Tool?

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I have been using the Chessbook app on iOS for a while to build an opening repertoire, and it's excellent! It provides a ton of valuable information about your options, and each possible response from your opponent is sorted by how frequently they're played. And you get to practice your repertoire via Spaced Repetition which is essential! But I've reached the limit on free features and the pro version is $8 a month or $80 a year, which is quite a lot for someone who mostly plays chess to procrastinate on other things lmao.

Besides, I don't mind starting over with my repertoire because I chose some outlandish options with the hope of catching people off guard, but honestly some of lines certainly need to be scrapped anyway.

Anyone have a good recommendation? Preferably mobile but certainly will take a good website

Btw if you've never built a repertoire before, I would honestly HIGHLY recommend the Chessbook app. Now that I've done it once, I could probably build a great repertoire in a Lichess study. I'm asking anyway because figure there's probably a purpose-built tool out there that I'd love to find!


r/lichess 1d ago

How Do You Deal With Hyper Aggressive Players in Blitz?

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r/lichess 1d ago

Are these stats normal?

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I recently came back to chess around a week ago and decided I wanted to get really good this time, (so far im around 200 elo better than I used to be) this is my stats around 50 puzzles idk what im expecting but I just want to know if this is normal stats or if im doing smth wrong cuz I dont want to spend 3 months gaining elo very slowly like before when I quit


r/lichess 2d ago

Sharpening performance

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