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The Lichess Board Editor now supports importing board positions from images! Available now on lichess.org/editor and coming soon to mobile.

7/10/26, 2:58 pm13 reposts80 likes

This is tremendous! I've wanted a nice tool for this for years!

Holy cow! Thank you!

This is a fantastic tool! Thank you very much!

Love you guys!!! Thanks for all you do!!!

Many thanks to Joël Seytre (github.com/JSeytre) for the underlying ChessQueries recognition model (arxiv.org/abs/2608.30762), which is also available on chessq.org!

Great. Thank you.

Lichess is using the ChessQ Lite V4 (huggingface.co/joelseytre/c...) model under the PolyForm Noncommercial (github.com/JSeytre/ches...) license.