Lichess.org

Lichess is free, nonprofit and doesn't run ads. All the features are available to you.

It has the strongest in-browser engine (WebAssembly-based stockfish, much faster than stockfish.js on other sites), and even stronger server-based analysis using native code on powerful computers (for free!).

This is the best chess website ever they deal with cheaters fast you can play in tornamints in all sorts of variants you would join this website you can have your kid have kid mode and there are teams on lichess on I one to 10 it's a 100,000,000,000

After pogo stopped their chest site... the good... I tried numerous chest sites... and lichess has/had the best graphics and speed... the bad... the players and site has so many glitches! People cheat... the site has so many glitches... it is NOT a real chest site... and fu kim the fake ratings... cheaters, glitches... way too many issues...

This is a great site that is easy to navigate. They have created a site to play on for the game and not for the money. It is easy to find a game and the staff are helpful and will to answer questions.

Bans the account if he wants with no proof. He is most likely a dictator. I am sorry for him. I was thinking that it is a better website than chess.com, but hell no. Chess.com is the king. Thibault makes people second-class citizen if he wants.

Has so many hackers, not letting me play, hacking accounts.
Lichess moderators closing account without any use.
Please do not try lichess.org/
A cheater betraying me, lichess.org/@/unnownuser, My friend on lichess was betraying me by lieing
On gmail, Not replying when online too

Trash people. I got flagged for cheating but I didn't even cheat! I realised someone hacked into my account then flagged me, and as stupid as that, I got this thing under my name that said "This account violated the Lichess Terms of Service". THIS ALSO MEANT that i couldn't play any games with NON cheating players. This also meant I couldn't join ANY tournaments. So I told this to the moderators. But their response was "You are responsible for all activity on your account." and that's all. This got me so pissed off that i wrote this review. If you unflag me, I will gratefully give a 5 star review.

Liuchess is a very big fraud app. If someone wins all the games in the tournament it just exits from the user accout and shows that the user has violated the rules when he has not. It just cant tolerate the contionous win of somebody.

Free but far from perfect. While I certainly appreciate that the website is completely free, it appears to lack a lot of features that are available on other chess websites.

THIS WEBSITE ATTRACTS WEAK PLAYERS BECAUSE IT SUCKS. There are several ways for losing players to walk away without resigning, including "waiting" to come back to an abandoned game, and somehow freezing the clocks and walking away. I call it 'French resigning'. It's a waste of time, especially if you're looking to play someone rated over 2000.

Horrible and arrogant behavior by the appeals committee. Below is the response that they sent on one of my son's account. He is just a beginner who is starting to learn chess and like to practice games on lichess because his coaching academy uses this site to teach him. Not sure why they dont want to allow new players who is learning to make couple of mistakes. If they are not comfortable, they can just restrict beginners from playing rated games. But these people are so arrogant that they decided to block the accounts permanently.

"Your account was closed because you have broken our rules on at least two other accounts.

You are no longer permitted to create new accounts.

We will only consider giving you another chance if you appeal again after 6 months. This waiting period is mandatory and will not be shortened for any reason.

We have the right to take strong action against users who repeatedly break our rules (lichess.org/terms-of-service) on multiple accounts by for example using engine or external assistance, sending offensive or "spam" messages, registering an unnecessary number of accounts, or trying to evade playbans."

The worst matchmaking system I've ever seen. Rating is not at all coresponding to the real skills. From 800 to 1800 people are basically with same skills.

My two accounts were closed yesterday with no explanation, advance warning or as it turns out, right to re-instate any of them. I am of course disgusted by this as I am a youtuber and had posted many of my videos with one of the lichess accounts. The explanation provided by lichess was multiple accounts and abusive behaviour. Lichess is entitled to decide what is abusive and what is not however I reserve myself the right to abuse back when I am abused. As for the multiple accounts I cannot think of any other chess playing web site that would shut down your accounts provided you have only two active ones and all the rest have been closed in the past. Lichess`s unwarranted and authoritarian actions will result in potential loss of income for me due to the fact I use my lichess account for my youtube videos which does generate some income for me. I will not leave this here and will be informing the general public about lichess`s authoritarian approach that hurts chess in general - show me any other website that closes your accounts - no explanation given, no warning, no right to re-instate. Clearly lichess has reached a new low in online censorship and I do not recommend this website to any chess fan that values freedom of expression.

You go on and play chess! It is amazing, I don't believe the trolls giving it a bad review, check reddit for reviews of actual users. Whoever made it is a great person and provides the best chess service avaliable FOR FREE and is OPEN SOURCE.

When you get onto lichess it's pretty good, the gameplay is good, the communications is good, you get unlimited puzzles, but the problem is when you do lessons, all you are doing is puzzles, sure on chess.com you do do puzzles, but on chess.com you also get a video lesson. Overall it is pretty good, but if you want lessons you have to choose (in my opinion) low quality lesson lichess, or pretty good, but you only get them once a week. Unlike chess.com though, lichess does have a voice chat function which I will agree i do enjoy when playing chess against my friend, but there are three flaws about lichess that I think should be addressed, number one being the lessons which is the main reason I am writing this review, the bots (no I mean seriously, even though I am a rated 1000 player I still sometimes want to beat some rated 250 robots a*s up from time to time), and the layout, I just feel like lichess is going for that basic "It's not the vibe" kind of layout when I know that lichess can do better, when I go to the time management to change the time control, it be looking like some s**t out from coolmathgames mixed with some Cardi B kind of s**t.

Go see an example game. Opponent moved knights up and so did I, then opponent castled. Was I able to castle similarly? NO! This site should be reported to the authorities for how horrible the treatment is.I've lost way too many games from not being able to castle.

https://lichess.org/TdRGFHRiti2G

Go view each image. First one is when I am logged in so you can see what I wrote in the chat window. When logged out there is nothing in the chat window because only I could see what I wrote and no one else. Highly frustrating when trying to chat and no one can see my response whenever they say something to me. The admins are so petty. I tried to get a video capture program on my pc to show what happens at end of games but nothing I tried free works on my pc. Late in games, when have like 8 seconds on clock, it suddenly goes to zero. When there is time added per move I should be able to make 10-20 or more moves still. It's unbelievable lichess is so shameful in what it does to me.

Click on my my name and see my profile. You won't be able to see what I wrote about myself because the site shadowbanned me. Also, in the profile you can see I made a forum post. I am able to view it when logged in but you will see a 404 error, page does not exist if you are not me viewing it when I am logged in. Such horrible treatment. It's absolutely outrageous.

Good software. Bad community of people. Developer is using this site to polish his over-inflated ego. They have a hivemind gang mentality and group up on individuals questioning their superiority.

I play a lot of chess online, and it used to be good fun. But lately, most chess websites such as Lichess, Chess.com Gameknot and Playchess.com are being run by a bunch of control freaks. When you play at these sites, I learned that you are not playing actual players, but rather a bot or the owners of the sites that are purposely making stupid moves. (sic) They do this to try and trick you get to become a member and pay for a membership. This is deceptive and really unfair for people who can't afford it. Also, it does a diservice to the game itself. You would think that they would want to promote the game for all, but for them it's just about the money. I guess they think people are stupid. But it just goes to show how stupid they are, because players like me will gradually stop playing at their websites and they will eventually become a cyber bot wasteland. It's mentally sadistic and truly sad for the game of chess.

Further, I want to thank sitejabber for giving people like myself the chance to vent their anger and frustration, as well as exposing the fraudulent behavior of these sites.

I started playing chess in 2011. At chess com at the time. But since 2016 I play in lichess...
I am stunned from the level of cheating I meet there. I play for 10 years, I had lessons for chess before pandemic for 4 years and I can solve puzzles well. I am a person able to put checkmate in 7 moves if I have to.
At this place my bullet rating is 1500. I lose 90 % of my games, for a year playing somewhere around 10K games I won with checkmate 1K of them. The rest 9K - lost over time or lost due to checkmate. I never resign. Ever.
This website is ether full of cheaters or I am the most sore loser ever.
I think it is the first, since for 2 days playing from 1200 bullet rating I jumped to 1700 rating. This due to the fact I was reporting all of my games for those days as cheating ones. And receiving notifications that my opponents were caught.
But I still lose most of my games, because I can't know is someone cheating when I play.
I am giving up. This is pointless. Why there is so many cheaters?
Why when I report them in forum no one is responding my posts?
Obviously I was being muted.
I am no longer going to play chess there. It is pointless waste of time. Even people call me crazy and noob all the time. No punishment. At all.
Sick of it. Lichess, Good bye!

It the best website I've ever used for chess. It has no ads. (Yay!) unlike chess.com it has no subscriptions

I was in AP GovPol playing against a friend and I consistently beat him using this website. Great user interface!

100% true… half the time you're playing a bot!
Usually when Not enough players on line. Also lots of cheats.

The good news: It's free!
The bad news: It's not worth paying for. Not very user friendly and most of the players appear to be bots.