How to Analyze Your Lichess Games Free with Stockfish 18

Import your entire Lichess game history in seconds and get unlimited Stockfish 18 analysis — deeper, faster and without Lichess's server queue.

Lichess is one of the best chess platforms in the world — and it already has a built-in computer analysis feature. But Lichess runs Stockfish on its own servers, which means a queue at busy times and a depth limit on free accounts. With MoveSense you import your Lichess username once and run Stockfish 18 locally on your device — no queue, no cap, no account required.

Import your Lichess games in under 30 seconds

  1. Enter your username — Type your Lichess username in the import field. No password, no OAuth — MoveSense uses Lichess's public games API and reads only your public game history.
  2. Choose how many games — Sync your last 50 games for a quick review, or load your full history for a longer study session. Blitz, rapid, classical and bullet all import together.
  3. Pick a game and analyze — Click any game in the list. Stockfish 18 starts instantly in your browser — engine running locally means no server wait, no daily limit.

MoveSense vs Lichess built-in analysis

Lichess's built-in analysis is excellent for a quick look at one game — click the board and the engine jumps to the relevant moment. MoveSense complements this with a different workflow: import many games at once, compare accuracy trends across weeks or months, and find patterns in your recurring mistakes that only show up when you look at 20 or 50 games together, not one at a time.

Engine depth: what it means and how deep to go

Stockfish's depth setting controls how many half-moves ahead the engine searches. Depth 18 takes a fraction of a second and is accurate enough to identify blunders and mistakes. Depth 25–30 finds more subtle inaccuracies but takes noticeably longer. For game review and pattern work, depth 18–20 is the sweet spot — deeper does not proportionally improve the learning value for most players.

Finding patterns across your Lichess history

The real power of importing your full Lichess history is spotting recurring patterns. Sort your games by date and look at your blunder rate over time: is it improving? Which openings produce the most mistakes? Are your blunders concentrated in the endgame or the middlegame? These questions are impossible to answer from a single game — a library of 50+ analyzed games makes the answers obvious.

Already have a PGN? That works too

If you exported a PGN file from Lichess — a single game or a batch — you can paste it directly without entering a username at all. Multi-game PGN files load all games at once so you can analyze them one by one from the same list.

Import your Lichess games and analyze free — no sign-up needed.