Daily update - Oct 7, 2026

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.

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.