Lichess
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Lichess is the most complete chess experience, with a simple interface that focuses on the game, a massive array of game related tools and a huge, worldwide community.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
EUPlatforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- F-Droid
Features
- Ad-free
- Multiplayer
- Lessons
- Study Mode
- Single player
- Chess Training
- Online Gaming
- Patron
- No registration required
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The best place to play chess online
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What is Lichess?
Lichess is the most complete chess experience, with a simple interface that focuses on the game, a massive array of game related tools and a huge, worldwide community.
The Lichess covenant:
- lichess.org will always be free.
- lichess.org will never contain advertisements.
- lichess.org will always be open source.
FEATURES
- Two-player games between humans
- Single-player games (versus Stockfish, the most powerful open-source engine)
- Spectator mode
- Premoves
- Support for moretime
- Resignation and draw offers
- Ability to abort uninitiated games
- Ability to force resignation
- 'Arena' style tournament feature
Customization
- Time controls for chess clocks, including Fischer delay
- Optional Black and White player randomization
- Ability to request a player to take back a move
- Support for variants: Chess960, King of the Hill, Three-check Chess, Atomic chess, Antichess, Horde chess
- User-defined restriction of who can join games, based on player rating
- Board editor to set up and practice positions against players or people.
Learning
- Opening puzzles to learn good continuations
- Tactics puzzles
- Coordinate trainer to train the locating of chess squares
- Curated library of publicly available chess videos
- PGN import and ability to load positions from FEN
Technology
- Mobile app for iOS and Android
- Works in any modern web browser (except Internet Explorer 8 and lesser versions), with no plugins such as Flash or Java needed
- Availability in over 80 languages
- Ability to toggle the overall theme of the website between black and white
- Basic chess set and background theme switching
- Ability to invite friends to a game via unique links created for every game
- Optional username and password registration
- Option for users to close their accounts
Lichess information
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Lichess Licensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 4.8Alternatives
68 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
- Russian
- German
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GitHub repository
- 17,504 Stars
- 2,521 Forks
- 1173 Open Issues
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Comments and Reviews
A superior alternative to Chess.com!
lichess.org is awesome, it's transparent too and there doesn't seem to be any ego's involved. It's just a great platform to have rapid games of chess. You can also analyze, study and play in tournaments.
The mobile app is friggin' awesome too!
The best place to play chess online
I like Lichess because it's a fast, privacy-friendly, sleek, customizable, and open-source platform with an intuitive UI, a high degree of functionality in regards to collaboration, and allows no-sign-up playing. All of which is especially noticeable when compared to Chess.com.
An issue is that platform is way less popular - meaning - when comparing ELOs with people it can be harder to tell what your ELO means to others. This is an unsolvable issue unless Lichess gets more traction. Another issue is the harsh treatment against email aliasing, at the very least allow aliasing after someone inputs an actual email. Other than that, Lichess is probably one of the most user-friendly chess platforms in the world while maintaining a substantial degree of popularity.
Whether you want to play online, solve puzzles, watch live games, or learn from the masters, Lichess is great.
The best chess platform out there. It's 100% free and open source, there are no ads, and the platform offers everything for playing, learning, training, etc. It's available online or as a mobile application, and it's even in F-Droid!
The interface is sleek and responsive. It meets all my expectations and needs. I have no complaints about it at all.
The best chess website on the Web. No ads as a core principle and super fast. The interactive chess lessons and tactics are a godsend as well.