Lichess
released on Jun 10, 2010
Lichess is an Internet chess server. Anyone can play anonymously, although players may register an account on the site to play rated games. All features are available for free, as the site is funded by donations.
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Paraphrasing what Quintin Smith of SUSD said about the board game Go - You can't review whether or not chess is a good game (hence the lack of star rating), you can only review whether or not you, yourself, like chess.
I do like chess, and Lichess is easily the neatest and most accessible website to play chess online.
I do like chess, and Lichess is easily the neatest and most accessible website to play chess online.
Been playing chess since like I was 7 (OTB, NES, PS2, Mac, you name it). I've been on this site on and off for years, I appreciate that they have never changed too drastically, but the devs are radical smelly French totalitarian cheese-eating surrender monkeys (yes that's an actual French insult, isn't it so clunky and overly long and glorious?). Wanna get away with cheating? Become a Patron and they'll let you use Stockfish on their site or on a different app to get all your moves from.