lichess • Online Chess 4+
thibault duplessis
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
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
What’s New
Version 8.0.0
What's changed:
- Fix timeline XSS by @jas14
- Disable back button on game while playing by @veloce
- Update to capacitor 4.0 by @veloce
Ratings and Reviews
App needs improvement, but Lichess is the best chess game platform in the world
I really wish I could give it 5 stars, but there are still a few minor issues (connectivity issues, no variants available, tough to open studies from the app, etc.)
In fact, using Lichess on your mobile browser is a better experience.
All in all, I love Lichess — beautiful interface, strong engine analysis, and great collaborative tools for learning.
problem
I have lots of connection issues even though my phone has full bars and good wifi signal. And sometimes when I disconnect I just lose the game even though I’m winning. And what’s worse is that I get put in a time out for disconnecting… this has happened recently only twice but otherwise it’s a great app for chess + free+ you can learn the basics for free. My main issue is that lot of players are using chess engines and I know this because they suddenly play meaningless computer moves in mid game when losing and suddenly all the pieces start coming together and they win. and the rating is below 1400 not even above 1500.
Otherwise it’s a good game
Game was good. Dont know what happens to intenet connectivity
While i was playing a game, it showed a low signal, and i lost 9 seconds per move in a 3 minute game. After the game i checked my connection, and saw 50 mbps download speed 10 mbps upload speed. Dont know what happened in game, first thought it was a bug and it repeated in the next few games too. I dont want to feel bad at chess just because of your server problem. The game used to be great before this, and too bad i have to goto another app despite liking this app's interface, players and all.
PS: I lost 32 points continuously and i fell to 1680s. This made me feel mad, as it took me some weeks to get into 1700s and the points are gone just like that.
App Privacy
The developer, thibault duplessis, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- thibault duplessis
- Size
- 71.8 MB
- Category
- Entertainment
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2015 lichess.org
- Price
- Free