Lichess

lichess.org

About this game

Lichess is a free/libre, open-source chess application powered by volunteers and donations.
Today, Lichess users play more than five million games every day. Lichess is one of the most popular chess websites in the world while remaining 100% free.

The following features are available right now:
- play real time or correspondence chess
- play arena tournaments
- play against online bots
- solve chess puzzles from a wide variety of themes, online or offline
- race against the clock in Puzzle Storm
- analyse your games with latest Stockfish locally or on the server
- board editor
- study chess with a collaborative and interactive study feature
- learn board coordinates
- play over the board with a friend
- watch live chess broadcasts from all major chess tournaments
- watch Lichess TV and online streamers
- use a chess clock for your over the board games
- many different board themes and piece sets
- custom background themes
- system colours on Android 12+
- translated into 55 languages

Ratings and reviews

For years it worked well, but lately the puzzles will randomly fail by not acknowledging the correct move, failing to display the correct move, or even claiming the correct move is something impossible (an opponent moving instead of you). Playing against the Stockfish computer online or offline also comes with fatal errors, namely the bot refuses to move and idles indefinitely, effectively throwing out the game sometimes less than halfway through. I cannot fit all the issues into this review.

Please for the love of God, add the option to analyze imported games and get accuracy percentages and stuff like that...You can do the mentioned with games played on the platform, but there is no option to do so with imported ones. I waited for this update for so long, I really do not see why they do not add it, it is like they absolutely forgot about it...Please consider adding it in the future updates 🙏🙏, everything else is awesome!

Seems like there is no offline bots in the new app? That's kind of unacceptable... Also please make it possible for players to make a custom position where you can give yourself like 20 pawns advantage and maybe challenge the computer. In the current custom board setup, it just doesn't let you start the game if you have a "unrealistic" amount of a certain piece. I know it's not the proper amount of pieces, but it's for fun!

What’s new

We continuously update the application with new features, improvements and bug fixes.

Release versions and more informations are available at:
https://github.com/lichess-org/mobile/releases