lichess • Free Online Chess

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About this game

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
- Unlimited opening explorer
- Endgame tablebase explorer
- Play with 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!

Just like https://lichess.org, this application is open source and free software (GPL v3). It is entirely free and without ads, now and forever.

Source code of the mobile application: https://github.com/veloce/lichobile
Source code of the website and server: https://lichess.org/source

Ratings and reviews

Decent platform and lots of matches available. Not sure how they determine the match side. Too often I'm playing as black 3-5 times in a row. Playing bullet matches have become increasingly frustrating. When it's end game and you're playing with only a few seconds left on the clock, it's not fair when your moves don't register and the clock just runs out or time is deducted. Even pre moves won't register and you'll find the game just ends with you staring at the board wondering what happened.

It's a good app and I have enjoyed many hours on it. Most of the time it works well. Unfortunately I have to take away one star for freezing and flagging at the end of games sometimes. For example, I have 5 seconds left and already made my move and am waiting for my opponent. All of a sudden it says my time is up and I lost. The other issue is many of the features on the website aren't available on the app. I would rank it 5 stars if both these issues were resolved.

i like the app, I like the different modes and that it keeps your ranking score. But, there needs to be a WAY larger penalty for leaving games and not returning once you know you've lost. This is very very annoying and seems to be happening all the time now... as soon as a player is at a significant disadvantage they just leave the game and you have to wait for the clock to time out.

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/veloce/lichobile/releases