lichess • Online Chess

Published by: LICHESS.ORG
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Description

Built for the love of chess, this app is open source and free for all.
- 150 000 individual users daily and growing fast.
- Play bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence chess
- Play in arena tournaments
- Find, follow, challenge players
- See your games stats
- Practice with chess puzzles
- Many variants, available online and offline: Crazyhouse, Chess 960, King Of The Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic chess, Horde, Racing Kings!
- Game analysis with local computer evaluation
- Server computer analysis with move annotations and game summary
- Opening explorer
- Play against offline computer
- Over The Board mode to play offline with a friend
- Standalone chess clock with multiple time settings
- Board editor
- Available in 80 languages
- Designed for both phones and tablets, supporting landscape mode
- 100% free, without ads, and opensource!

Chess variants are supported! Try them all:
- Crazyhouse: every time a piece is captured the capturing player gets a piece of the same type and of their color in their pocket.
- Chess960: pieces on the home rank are randomised.
- King Of The Hill: bring your king to the center to win.
- Threecheck: check the opponent king three times.
- Antichess: lose all your pieces to win.
- Atomic Chess: nuke the opponent.
- Horde: destroy the horde to win.
- Racing Kings: Race your king to the eighth rank to win.

Just like http://lichess.org, this application is open source, and respects user freedom. It is entirely free and without ads, now and forever.
Learn more about lichess philosophy: http://lichess.org/blog/U4skkUQAAEAAhIGz/why-is-lichess-free
Source code of the mobile application: https://github.com/veloce/lichobile
Source code of the website and server: https://github.com/ornicar/lila
Big thanks to the volunteers behind this app:
- Vincent Velociter (lead dev) https://github.com/veloce
- Renaud Bressand (design) https://twitter.com/RenaudBressand
- Thibault Duplessis (dev) https://github.com/ornicar
- Sebastien Renault (dev of stockfish plugin) https://github.com/srenault
- Mark Henle (dev) https://github.com/freefal
Check out the app page on http://lichess.org/mobile, and follow us on twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/lichessorg
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User Rating

3.72 out of 5

25 ratings in Croatia

Ratings History

lichess • Online Chess Reviews

Chess

dhejdyjd on

United States

很方便

Good but one serious flaw

JBChristian on

United States

I love it and would give it 4 or 5 stars if they fixed one major problem. If you live in or use it in an area with a sketchy internet connection, it doesn’t really synchronize and let you know if you are disconnected. It will sit there with the time running out on the other player making you think you’ve won until it finally reconnects and says you lost because you timed out! That is infuriating. It should provide a warning and then maybe I could move to get a better signal. It’s fine at home, but when traveling it is untrustworthy. So aggravating. Please fix this.

Cheat

shame on cheats on

United States

I have to give this a 0 based solely on the quality of player. Once you get to a higher rating I’d say at least 15-20% of your opponents are cheating. You can verify this by game review. Unfortunately due to the amount of people using engines It is impossible to ban a fraction of them. Those that do get banned instantly make another account in under 60 seconds and continue right where they left off at. This APP is just like any other multiplayer app/game that’s played today………completely and totally ruined by trash cheats

Takes forever to get paired

honestrevs5363 on

United States

Garbage app, can’t even get paired into a game.

Laggy and buggy

Chocolate aids on

United States

Incredibly laggy during games, especially late game during time scrambles. Additionally, the board is sometimes buggy thinking you’re selecting different squares than where you choose. Lichess is far superior to Chess.com on their website platform but the app is just so awful and ruins the experience on a phone/tablet

Great app, outdated engine

Mikebeater on

United States

Stockfish 14.1 is getting a bit long in the tooth

No best move arrow

Elliotmonster2016 on

United States

So when I turn on the best move arrow setting in the analysis board, it doesn’t work. On my computer, it does. To replicate this bug, go to the analysis board, press the best move arrow setting, and see that it doesn’t work.

Not good for a phone app

Star Brood on

United States

This app is really unrefined. No arrows for showing premoves makes solving puzzles much more annoying than on a PC. Also bullet games are very difficult on iphone compared to PC. iPhone users should automatically have more time added per move due to the input interface disadvantage, or just make PC players not match against mobile players.

Nothing but Chess Engines

gfyy2k on

United States

Sum up lichess, its nothing but chess engines. The lichess forums is full of comments from 2000 elo players getting smoked in games. Play an engine, you are anyways. My lichess strategy personally is scorched earth. I open 20 tabs 15 min games , play a single move and go watch a video. If i want to play chess i play irl or offline pc. Lichess lets not pretend you have any power okay? You can time out my acct for 20 minutes as if you have the authority to punish. I have 20 accts, its a facade. You have no authority

Hacking and toxic community. Don’t waste time or money.

4Geist on

United States

Toxic community and hacking is allowed. They don’t do anything about it.

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