{"slug": "daily-update-oct-7-2026", "title": "Daily update - Oct 7, 2026", "summary": "Lichess added image import to its Board Editor on October 7, 2026, letting users select \"From image\" or drag and drop a picture of a board position onto the board. The feature runs on the ChessQ Lite V4 recognition model from Joël Seytre's ChessQueries project, used under the PolyForm Noncommercial license, and Lichess said it will reach its mobile app soon.", "body_md": "Our [Board Editor](https://lichess.org/editor) now supports importing board positions from images! Select \"From image\" or [drag and drop the image](https://www.reddit.com/r/lichessdotorg/comments/1wxak9k/new_feature_lichess_board_editor_now_supports/) onto the board. Many thanks to [Joël Seytre](https://github.com/JSeytre) for the underlying [ChessQueries](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30762) recognition model, also available on [chessq.org](https://chessq.org/)! Lichess uses the [ChessQ Lite V4](https://huggingface.co/joelseytre/chessq-lite) model under the [PolyForm Noncommercial](https://github.com/JSeytre/chessqueries#licenses) license. The feature will also come to our [mobile app](https://lichess.org/app) soon.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daily-update-oct-7-2026", "canonical_source": "https://lichess.org/feed#dfs7OI", "published_at": "2026-10-07 20:30:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-07 20:49:24.269860+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["computer-vision", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Lichess", "Joël Seytre", "ChessQueries", "ChessQ Lite V4", "chessq.org", "Hugging Face"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daily-update-oct-7-2026", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daily-update-oct-7-2026.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daily-update-oct-7-2026.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/daily-update-oct-7-2026.jsonld"}}