lichess • Online Chess 4+

thibault duplessis

Designed for iPad

    • 3.9 • 1.8K Ratings
    • Free

Screenshots

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

3.9 out of 5
1.8K Ratings

1.8K Ratings

^~sunshine~^ ,

Decent!!

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.

AndrewGary ,

App Crashes in board editor

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.

1233$,&(& ,

TROLLING!!!

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!!

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, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

You Might Also Like

Magic: The Gathering Companion
Entertainment
MyAnimeList Official
Entertainment
Nebula – Videos and Podcasts
Entertainment
D&D Beyond
Entertainment
Riot Mobile
Entertainment
RL Garage for Rocket League
Entertainment