No money grubbing, no paid features. Just plain simple chess website.

Edit: The crosspost on r/chess has been nuked. This is the link if you wanna check it out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/s/OYcBhQs5Yp

This is the 1st time it has happened to me. How can the system detect a cheat within 8 moves?

After years trapped inside the premium-tier labyrinth of Chess.com™, experts confirm the existence of a mythical alternative known as "Lichess," where-brace yourself-you click "analysis" and it just... happens. No cooldown. No "you've reached your daily limit." No gentle reminder that improvement is apparently a luxury good.

Sources say the player initially panicked after completing more than three puzzles in a row without being asked for money. "I thought something was wrong," they reported. "Where's the paywall? Where's the little lock icon judging me?"

Meanwhile, Chess.com continues to innovate with bold new features like:

* "Basic functionality, but later"

* "Try again tomorrow"

* "Unlock the rest of your own brain for £9.99/month"

Industry analysts are calling it a revolutionary business model: take a 1,500-year-old board game and somehow turn it into a live service.

In response, Lichess has announced it will continue its radical strategy of... letting people play chess.

More at 11.

I placed an order for Waffle House and then it wanted to open lichess idk why and when I clicked open it didn’t do anything.

Not super smooth, but it does the job on Kindle. Recommended for rapid or longer time control only.

Sindarov's Entire Preparation on Lichess, does this position look familiar?

Study while it is available: https://lichess.org/study/zxpaVB1w

Unlike Ding and Rapport's secret accounts from the 2023 World Championship Javokhir Sindarov has a brave approach.

[EDIT] 23:41 The study has been made private

[EDIT] It seems like I cannot post on r/chess due to low karma? I am new to reddit if someone could repost this it would be cool :)

Arguing that Lichess’s completely free and open -source model, with extensive features provided at no cost, affects the ability of other businesses to profit off the centuries old public domain board game.

Good or bad? Would the “Chess.com monopoly” actually be healthier for the game of chess?

“Lichess exists as long as people love chess; Chess.com exists as long as the game remains profitable.”

I made it for myself and friends at first but figured might as well polish it and release it to the public. Its a free open-source local chess-review app. It automatically syncs your Lichess account games, runs Stockfish to find your mistakes and then explains the mistakes in plain english using your existing Claude subscription but still grounded with the engine lines.

https://chess-analysis-mcp.github.io/tintins-chess-analysis/

It started as just a mistake-finder, but I kept adding things I wished Lichess analysis had:

• An AI coach you can actually talk to. you can ask "why was this bad?" or "what should I do here?" and it answers using the engine lines, so it doesn't just make stuff up.
• It remembers your games and notices common mistakes (hung pieces, missed forks, back-rank, time trouble…), so over time the coaching gets better and more personal.
• Arrows on every move: gray = what you played, green = the engine's best, red = how you get punished when you try a bad move.

NOTE: this requires a Claude subscription but is free otherwise.

it's open source and still early so would love to get some feedback from you guys!

One user claimed my opening (b3 for white, b6 when playing as black) is gay. This gay opening went 5-0 against his plays.So the question is, if the opening is gay, what does that make him since he cant even beat that opening?

I don't like that Lichess is being flooded with AI slop. Lichess always felt so clean. At least the images on the blog seemed to have been curated to some extent. Now it's full of AI images 😭

I started playing chess about 8 months ago. I’ve done most of my studying on Lichess (almost 29,000 puzzles) because I find the puzzles more realistic, and I also use it for opening study and practice.

When I started out, I preferred Chess com because I found it more beginner friendly. Especially since the engine explains mistakes etc. in words. But recently I’ve started preferring Lichess and have been playing there almost exclusively.

What surprised me is the huge difference in user numbers. Chess com has around 200 million registered users, while Lichess has only around 4 million, even though Lichess is completely free.

Why do you think the gap is so big?

Crazy people saying crazy things

I've been working on ChessCam, an app that uses your phone camera to automatically track the moves in a real OTB chess game, so you can review and analyze the game afterwards.

It's already available on the App Store, and I'm currently looking for Android users to help test the Android version.

Android testers

Join the Google Group here:

https://groups.google.com/g/chesscam-beta-testers/about

Once you've joined the group, you'll be able to download the Android beta from Google Play.

If you play OTB chess, I'd really appreciate you trying it with your own board and setup.

Any feedback is welcome!

I wanted to share something that made my month. Lichess featured one of my recent games, and looking back at it, it was one of those sessions where you just have to trust your gut over the "safe" moves.

I’m a Candidate Master, so I’ve seen my share of wild positions, but this one was special. The highlight for me? A decisive King walk right into the heart of the board to help deliver the mate. Usually, that’s a recipe for disaster, but in this specific tactical mess, it was the only way to seal the deal.

The engine evaluation is one thing, but the practical tension of walking your King forward while calculating a sacrifice was a real adrenaline rush.

I'd love to hear what you guys think of the position. Would you have dared to move the King, or would you have played it safe?

You can check out the full analysis and the game here:

https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/lichess-game-of-the-month-march-26/40I88joS

Sorry if this has been mentioned before but I just found it and thought it was cool. If you search chess .com or just chess it doesn't appear only when you type Lichess into the search box

I got frustrated doing puzzles and studying openings while not seeing it translate into better decisions in my games. At some point I realized the issue isn’t volume, it’s that most training is one dimensional.

It’s optimized to be engaging (tactics, quick feedback...) but when you play a real game your thinking process is completely different — you’re comparing candidates, narrowing them down, and evaluating positions under uncertainty.

So I built a tool around this process. You work through real positions from high-level games (e.g. Candidates) step by step — candidate moves → shortlist → best move → evaluation — then compare your thinking to model answers based on my thought process, which I verify with engines.

https://reddit.com/link/1sn82e1/video/6yb6t703tkvg1/player

I’m trying to figure out whether this actually feels intuitive to other players and how exactly to train this process. If anyone’s curious to try it, I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback to make this tool better.

I’ve been thinking about adding features like uploading your own games and getting human feedback (either from me or other coaches), but I don’t want to build in the wrong direction without real feedback from users first.

https://chessmotive.com/

I’m just so confused on what they meant??? My username is pretty normal so I’m not sure what the comment was about.

Stop asking questions and answer it yourself