The match is starting, and Matthew Sadler is going to comment it on his youtube channel.

The Leela Chess Zero team decided to withdraw from participating in the WCCC, as we believe the competition did an unsatisfactory job in evaluating compliance with participant rules. More details here: lczero.org/blog/2024/10/w…

Join us today, Nov 17 from 4-6pm UTC for an Queen Odds match between Leela & chess streamer CM David Maycock on Lichess (LeelaQueenOdds vs Respectful_Dave)! 20 games + possible bonus round. More info: lczero.org/blog/2024/11/l…

We're excited to bring you a live annotation of the upcoming 2024 World Chess Championship at live.lczero.org. But first, enjoy our real-time annotation of the FRC match between Carlsen and Caruana happening now!

As we mentioned, we'll have live annotations of the World Chess Championship 2024 games at live.lczero.org. Check out our blog post for more details: lczero.org/blog/2024/11/w….

We won't adjust win/draw/loss probabilities by player ratings and the clock at live.lczero.org for tomorrow's game, as some people suggested. This also keeps Lc0 from losing the last move's thinking with a new move. Let us know which you prefer!

We're excited to announce a knight odds match: GM Awonder Liang vs. LeelaKnightOdds! Join us on December 12th, 3-6 pm EST (8-11 pm UTC) on @Lichess. Time control: 10'+5". First to 6 wins. Live stream by Matthew Sadler on youtube.com/@SiliconRoadCh…. More info: lczero.org/blog/2024/12/l….

Did you know that anyone can use Lichess broadcasts to stream our broadcast games on their own website, just like in Lc0's world championship live analysis? Simply copy the real-time PGN link in the broadcast overview or use our streaming API: lichess.org/broadcast/qata…

There’s been quite a bit of chess today, but if you fancy some more then look no further than the Leela Knight Odds - Awonder Liang match that will be streamed tonight at 20:00 UTC on the Silicon Road channel youtube.com/watch?v=0o_kpu… Should be pretty cool! 😎

LeelaKnightOdds vs. GM Joel Benjamin, former multiple US champion, in a classical time control (60'+30") knight odds match. January 25-27. Lichess: lichess.org/broadcast/leel…. Commentary by GM Sadler: youtube.com/@SiliconRoadCh…. More details in our blog post: lczero.org/blog/2025/01/l…

want to feel, on a gut level, what it's like to interact with AI optimized to exploit your blind spots? try playing chess against LeelaQueenOdds you start a queen up and winning seems so easy - just trade pieces! and yet inexorably, imperceptibly, your lead is chipped away...

For the past week I have been grinding against this bot and let me just say It is extremely unnerving

Our Lichess odds bots just got a specialized contempt search update making them even tougher to beat. Challenge them now: lichess.org/@/LeelaKnightO… lichess.org/@/LeelaQueenOd… lichess.org/@/LeelaPieceOd… lichess.org/@/LeelaRookOdds

Leela Chess Zero Think you can beat Leela without a queen? Here is a public leaderboard of the best humans that tried: marcogio9.github.io/LeelaQueenOdds…

With all the hype with playing the Leela engine with queens odds, I decided to give it a try. With the time control of 3+1 every tenth game I would relax somewhere early and the engine would trick me with it's crazy tactics, combined with bluffing. Final score: 18:2, humanity

Here’s the video of me playing vs Leela with different kinds of piece odds. Check it out - very instructive stuff!

Follow the FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship 2025 with our live analysis: live.lczero.org. You saw similar analysis at the WWC 2024! The analysis directly shows win/draw/loss probabilities instead of just centipawns.

Hikaru Nakamura scored 12,5% vs LeelaKnightOdds, much better than other top GMs against the same version 💥 players in the World top 50 (FIDE) scored only 4% in 80 games before this chessdom.com/hikaru-nakamur… Hikaru Nakamura Leela Chess Zero Anish Giri

New blog post: EngineBattle, a comprehensive tool for streaming, testing, and analyzing Lc0 and other chess engines: lczero.org/blog/2025/07/e…

We're ecstatic to see our open data powering so many strong engines. In the latest CCRL Blitz list alone, at least 20 of the top 80 are 'guilty' of using it, according to this site [leeler.net]. We sincerely hope this number grows!