A single game tells you what happened once. Your last forty games tell you what has been happening lately. But your whole history, every rated game you have ever played, tells you something neither of those can. It tells you which way you are actually trending, over months and years. Lumichess Insights is the free chess statistics dashboard built to read that long arc. It turns your complete Chess.com and Lichess game record into chess performance trends you can act on.
Where a Game Report goes deep on one game and a Profile Report goes deep on a recent batch, Insights goes broad. Your rating over time, how each opening actually scores for you, who you keep losing to, when you play your best, and the full searchable list of your games. It is the bird's-eye view that puts everything else in context, and it is free to use.
What Insights is
Insights is a free chess statistics and analytics dashboard. Enter a Chess.com or Lichess username and Lumichess fetches that account's game history and computes a set of trend reports across it. Every chart is calculated in your browser from your public game record, which is why the whole dashboard is free: there is no server cost behind it. It is built for the player who wants to manage their improvement like a season, not just review a single game, and to see whether the work is paying off in the numbers that move slowly. If you have looked at Chess.com stats or Lichess stats and wished one place pulled both accounts together, this is that place.
The dashboard, tab by tab
Insights is organised into seven tabs, each computed from the same underlying game record. Here is what every one of them shows.
Overview
Your at-a-glance summary. Performance by time control, your most-played openings as White and Black, a rating gauge, and your latest game. It is the page you check to answer the question "how am I doing right now?" before you drill into any one dimension.
Games
Your full game list, filterable and paginated by color, time control, result, how the game ended, and opponent. It is the searchable archive underneath every chart. Find the games behind a trend, and when you want to go deeper, take any one of them into a per-game review.
Openings
Your repertoire as White and Black, sortable by most-played, best-performing, and worst-performing. This is where you find the opening that is quietly costing you points, the one you play constantly and lose with, and the offbeat line that over-performs and deserves more of your games. For a sub-2000 player this single tab is often the highest-leverage view in the whole dashboard.
Opponents
A breakdown of the players you face most, including how your games against them tend to end. Useful for spotting recurring rivals and the kinds of opponents, and the kinds of finishes, that give you trouble.
Activity
A calendar-style heatmap of when you play, by day, marking active days and how they went. It is an honest mirror on your habits, including the late-night sessions that show up red more often than you would like. Sometimes the most useful chess insight is not about chess at all, but about when you sit down to play it.
Rating
Your historical rating as a chart, broken out per time control, with averages. This is the headline trend. It is the line that tells you, past the noise of individual wins and losses, whether you are genuinely climbing, plateaued, or sliding. A single bad night barely moves it, which is exactly why it is the number worth watching.
FIDE
A lookup into the official FIDE rating list. Search any FIDE-registered player by last name or FIDE ID to pull their standard, rapid, and blitz ratings, their FIDE ID, and their world rank, then search a second player to compare the two side by side. It is the over-the-board reference inside Insights, useful when you want to check a tournament rival or see where a titled player actually stands.
How Insights differs from the Profile Report
They answer different questions. The Profile Report is an engine-driven diagnostic of roughly your last 40 games. It evaluates every move with Stockfish and tells you which skills are weak right now. Insights is a statistical dashboard over your entire history, focused on long-term trends, covering rating direction, opening results, activity, and matchups across all your games.
- Profile Report. Recent, deep, per-move, engine-driven. It answers "what should I work on?"
- Insights. All-time, broad, statistical, trend-driven. It answers "is what I am doing working?"
Used together they close the loop. Diagnose the weakness in the Profile Report, fix it with focused work such as a themed Woodpecker set, then come back to Insights a few weeks later and check whether the rating line and your opening numbers actually moved.
How to read it
- Start on the Rating tab. Look at the slope over months, not the last few games. That is the only number that tells you whether you are improving.
- Open Openings and sort by worst. The line you play most and lose with is your highest-leverage fix. Change it and a chunk of your games change with it.
- Check Activity for patterns. If your red days cluster at a certain hour, the fix might be a schedule rather than a chess one.
- Use the Games tab to drill in. When a trend surprises you, find the specific games behind it and open one in a Game Report to see what happened move by move.
Frequently asked questions
What is Lumichess Insights?
A free chess statistics and analytics dashboard. It pulls your full Chess.com and Lichess game history and turns it into performance trends. Rating over time, opening results, opponent breakdowns, an activity heatmap, a filterable game list, and a FIDE player lookup, so you can see how your play is changing over the long run.
Is Insights free?
Yes. Insights is free. The whole dashboard runs in your browser on your public game history, so every tab is available at no cost.
How is Insights different from the Profile Report?
The Profile Report is a deep, engine-driven diagnostic of roughly your last 40 games. Insights is a broad statistical dashboard over your entire history, focused on long-term trends and breakdowns rather than per-move analysis. One tells you what to fix. The other tells you whether your fixes are working.
Which platforms does Insights support?
Chess.com and Lichess. Enter a username and Insights builds the dashboard from that account's public game history.
What can I see in the dashboard?
Seven tabs: an Overview, your Games, Openings, Opponents, Activity, Rating history, and a FIDE player lookup. Each one is computed from your game record so you can track chess performance trends across time controls and colors.