Name: lichess • Online Chess
Rating: 3.5 (31 reviews)
Author: LICHESS.ORG

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

3.52 out of 5

31 ratings in Hungary

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lichess • Online Chess Reviews

Rude players

Apple store with this kind of applications. Lol. This one comes with 3 major design error, and fails to follow chess original rules. Their “ai” using the exploit. Shame.

Glitch with Pawn Movement Detecte

I’ve discovered a bug in this chess app that affects the gameplay. Specifically, there’s an issue with how the opponent’s pawn can capture my pawn in situations where it shouldn’t be possible according to the standard rules of chess. For instance, when my pawn is positioned at a4 and the opponent’s pawn is at b3, the app incorrectly allows the opponent’s pawn to capture mine, even though its only legal move should be to advance to b2. This error disrupts the natural flow of the game and needs to be addressed to ensure a fair and accurate playing experience.

Basic

Full of incorrect players, you have to wait a lot, coz sometimes the app doesnt let you win if your opponent disconnects

The game is broken

I think the APP has broken. We cannot play game in the APP. I hope the developers will repair it ASAP.

lag when low power mode is on

games lag when low power mode is turned on

Can we get back to a working app?

As good as it was, with this recent update it went completely downhill. In-game menu does not work: you can’t resign, can’t get new opponent if game was aborted etc etc etc. Really frustrating. Why did you realease without sufficient testing?

Scroll bug

The scroll with newest uodate is not smooth on iOS 12. It’s very irritating in bigger content.

Network issues

During a game, if the app shows 3 little blinking dots (maybe this because of poor connection) if I switch from WiFi to 4G then the app won’t communicate properly with the server anymore, (nothing wrong with my 4G) the only thing that I see is my clock running down to zero. Completely rubbish, I lost lots of Elo points because of this!!

iOS 10

It does not run on iOS10 - 5S, only blank screen.

Decent App - Great community

App is difficult to navigate, not very intuitive. Reporting issues is more difficult than similar apps. Analyzing games played is also more difficult than similar apps. Great community of players.

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