How to Import Chess.com Games to Lichess for Free Analysis

Chess.com's own game review is limited unless you pay for it, but Lichess gives away Stockfish analysis for free. So a lot of players do the obvious thing: they move their Chess.com games over to Lichess to analyze them. Here's exactly how — and a shortcut that skips the whole dance.

Why import to Lichess at all#

Lichess offers free computer analysis on every game, including games you import from elsewhere. Chess.com's deeper game review is a paid feature, so importing a Chess.com game into Lichess is the classic free workaround for getting an engine to go through your moves.

The mechanism that makes this possible is PGN — Portable Game Notation, the standard text format every chess site can read and write. Export the PGN from one site, import it into another, and the game travels intact.

Step by step: Chess.com to Lichess#

1. Open the finished game on Chess.com#

Go to the game you want to analyze. This works for any finished game in your archive.

2. Copy the PGN#

Find the Share or Download option for the game (it's usually near the board or on the game review screen) and choose PGN. You can copy the PGN text to your clipboard or download a .pgn file.

3. Go to the Lichess importer#

Open lichess.org/paste (Lichess's "Import game" page).

4. Paste and import#

Paste the PGN into the text box — or upload the .pgn file — and click Import. Lichess rebuilds the game as a board you can step through move by move.

5. Request computer analysis#

On the imported game, click Request a computer analysis. Lichess runs Stockfish over the game for free and marks inaccuracies, mistakes, and blunders, with an evaluation for every move. You can also open the position in the analysis board and turn the engine on live.

That's it — a free, engine-analyzed version of your Chess.com game, hosted on Lichess.

The real downside: friction#

The method works, but notice how many steps it is. You do all of that for one game. Want to review a session of ten blitz games? That's ten exports and ten imports. The friction is exactly why most people who intend to review their games… don't. Reviewing is already the step players skip most, and adding an export-import chore to every single game makes skipping it even easier.

There's also a smaller catch: importing gets you post-game analysis. It doesn't help you study a live game or a position as you're looking at it.

The shortcut: analyze without importing#

If the only reason you're moving games to Lichess is to get a free engine on them, there's a more direct route — run the engine on the Chess.com board itself.

A browser extension like ChessSolve does exactly that. It reads the position you're on — a finished game, the analysis board, or a live study — and overlays Stockfish 18 evaluations and best-move arrows right there. No PGN export, no paste page, no re-import. The analysis appears where the game already is, on either Chess.com or Lichess, and it's free to use.

So the choice comes down to workflow:

• Occasional deep dive on one important game? Importing to Lichess and requesting full computer analysis is great — you get a permanent, shareable study.
• Reviewing lots of games, or wanting analysis live in place? An extension that runs on the board directly saves you the export-import loop every single time.

Either way, the goal is the same: get an engine looking at your games so you can find out where they actually went wrong. For how to do that well once you're there, see our guide on analyzing your chess games.