lichess • Online Chess

Name: lichess • Online Chess
Rating: 3.8 (2152 reviews)
Author: LICHESS.ORG

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Free · Designed for iPad

2.2K Ratings
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4+
Years
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Entertainment
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LICHESS.ORG
Language

EN
English
Size

71.8
MB

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

Ratings & Reviews

3.8

out of 5

2.2K Ratings

Decent!!
10/17/2023

^~sunshine~^
Depending on your device, if playing on iphone (possibly ipad as well) there are limited options to puzzles. On computer there a wider variety of free practice. The thing i do not understand is the score. Why does it take away so many points if i lose? it makes sense of course to take points out of a score when losing. But if its a draw one person (your opponent)will get the extra points which could be within 13-25 points. That can really affect your score. I think that the points can mess up a game a little bit because Lichess pairs up players with similar scores. Most people have a good score just because of a draw or someone resigned. So this score difference may lose to someone losing a gams. Overall I think that this is a good app. The scores can confuse me (personally) But it has helped me with my chess skills and has fun, educational, useful lessons/ practice features.
Decent!!
10/17/2023

^~sunshine~^

Depending on your device, if playing on iphone (possibly ipad as well) there are limited options to puzzles. On computer there a wider variety of free practice. The thing i do not understand is the score. Why does it take away so many points if i lose? it makes sense of course to take points out of a score when losing. But if its a draw one person (your opponent)will get the extra points which could be within 13-25 points. That can really affect your score. I think that the points can mess up a game a little bit because Lichess pairs up players with similar scores. Most people have a good score just because of a draw or someone resigned. So this score difference may lose to someone losing a gams. Overall I think that this is a good app. The scores can confuse me (personally) But it has helped me with my chess skills and has fun, educational, useful lessons/ practice features.
App Crashes in board editor
01/28/2024

AndrewGary
I love this app a lot. Never really had any major problems until now. This is the only reason I’m writing this review in the first place. When you create a position that is illegal in normal chess, it lets you use the position in analysis and offline and online games and it works fine, until you try to load the engine if you use analysis. Upon attempting to load Stockfish by clicking on the engine tab, it attempts to load the engine, but a second later, the app crashes, sending you back to the home screen of your iPhone or iPad device. An easy way to replicate the bug is: go to the board editor, load the standard chess starting position, place an extra piece anywhere, such as an extra pawn, go to analysis, see that analysis mode works fine without using the engine, try to go to the computer analysis tab, and watch as the app crashes.
App Crashes in board editor
01/28/2024

AndrewGary

I love this app a lot. Never really had any major problems until now. This is the only reason I’m writing this review in the first place. When you create a position that is illegal in normal chess, it lets you use the position in analysis and offline and online games and it works fine, until you try to load the engine if you use analysis. Upon attempting to load Stockfish by clicking on the engine tab, it attempts to load the engine, but a second later, the app crashes, sending you back to the home screen of your iPhone or iPad device. An easy way to replicate the bug is: go to the board editor, load the standard chess starting position, place an extra piece anywhere, such as an extra pawn, go to analysis, see that analysis mode works fine without using the engine, try to go to the computer analysis tab, and watch as the app crashes.
TROLLING!!!
03/10/2020

1233$,&(&
I love this app but I wish developers would make some kind of method where it would check to make sure the player is still engaged in the game. People will literally be losing and instead of them resigning like an decent chess player they would just let the clock time out to 0 in hopes that somewhere along that time their opponent would just quit because they become impatient in waiting for the player to make a move. My suggestion is to make a button that would send a prompt to the opponent asking them if they are still there and the opponent has a set amount of time to respond, for example 3 minutes. If they don’t respond then the game will automatically be forfeited. If they do respond then they have a set amount of time to make a move afterwards. It’s TROLLING when they have no intentions on making a move and they’re completely relying on their opponent to simply quit because they actually want to play and not willing to wait 15 minutes for the time to run out. Please make a change so the TROLLING comes to a STOP!!
TROLLING!!!
03/10/2020

1233$,&(&

I love this app but I wish developers would make some kind of method where it would check to make sure the player is still engaged in the game. People will literally be losing and instead of them resigning like an decent chess player they would just let the clock time out to 0 in hopes that somewhere along that time their opponent would just quit because they become impatient in waiting for the player to make a move. My suggestion is to make a button that would send a prompt to the opponent asking them if they are still there and the opponent has a set amount of time to respond, for example 3 minutes. If they don’t respond then the game will automatically be forfeited. If they do respond then they have a set amount of time to make a move afterwards. It’s TROLLING when they have no intentions on making a move and they’re completely relying on their opponent to simply quit because they actually want to play and not willing to wait 15 minutes for the time to run out. Please make a change so the TROLLING comes to a STOP!!
Great App 👍 - A couple of requests
01/24/2023

JOhkonut
Edit: rating back to 5 stars. I think you guys fixed it!Edit: Dropping my rating to 3 stars. The move skipping bug has not been fixed and the notification badge is inaccurate. I have to constantly check the app to know if it is my turn on correspondence games. Edit: Dropping my rating to 4 stars. I love Lichess but the move skipping bug is really bad and annoying. Please fix! 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!
Great App 👍 - A couple of requests
01/24/2023

JOhkonut

Edit: rating back to 5 stars. I think you guys fixed it!Edit: Dropping my rating to 3 stars. The move skipping bug has not been fixed and the notification badge is inaccurate. I have to constantly check the app to know if it is my turn on correspondence games. Edit: Dropping my rating to 4 stars. I love Lichess but the move skipping bug is really bad and annoying. Please fix! 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!

What's changed: - Fix timeline XSS by @jas14 - Disable back button on game while playing by @veloce - Update to capacitor 4.0 by @veloce

Version 8.0.0

12/06/2022

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