lichess Online Chess Overview
What is lichess Online Chess?
This app is a free and open-source chess app that allows users to play various chess variants, including Crazyhouse, Chess960, King Of The Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic chess, Horde, and Racing Kings. It has over 150,000 individual users daily and is designed for both phones and tablets, supporting landscape mode. The app is entirely free, without ads, and open-source.
Features
- Play bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence chess
- Play in arena tournaments
- Find, follow, challenge players
- See your games stats
- Practice with chess puzzles
- 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
- Supports various chess variants: Crazyhouse, Chess960, King Of The Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic chess, Horde, and Racing Kings
- Free and open-source
- Designed for both phones and tablets, supporting landscape mode.
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Product Details and Description of
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
Top Reviews
By Harrypotter5913
Such An Amazing App!
I am thoroughly impressed with Lichess. There is so much capable within the app itself that easily trumps other software. The endless amount of tactical and positional puzzles as well as the unlimited analysis board. There are also other features such as the ability to watch top players’ games and learn from them, As well as the ability to import and analyze your own games with ease. I think it’s beautiful that the developers made it all non-profit, and instead for the beauty of Chess. There are no problems that I have perceived within the mobile app, as well as the website. I use the app daily, and enjoy it very much. Keep up the great work!
By JOhkonut
Great App 👍 - A couple of requests
Love the app. I have a couple of minor requests. When cycling through the moves of a game with the << and >> buttons, it often skips through 2 or 3 moves ahead even thought I only pressed the >> button once. Can you please fix? Another bug I have noticed is that I receive double notifications. And the badge number is way higher than it should be. My last request is to make the 3D piece sets available on mobile. Thanks!
By perrytheply ;D
I love it!
This app is amazing and wayyy better than Zyngas "Chess With Friends," and their newer version as well! The only thing I seem to have a problem is with the messaging or "mail" as you call it. If you can improve that to be more reliable as a messaging source (not saying turn it into a messaging app) but sometimes there's bugs such as backing out onto the messaging page over and over. Everything else seems amazing!
