Lichess.org

Lots of cheating players in another words thieves and criminals. Moderators are exactly the same. Criminals. Account gets timed out for allegedly running down the clock when I'm simply communicating with opponents. What's the purpose of chat then? Absolutely disgraceful. Stay away from those crooks. As law enforcement agent I'll be back with a search warrant.

My son was trying to login to join tournament on lichess and by mistake he forgot to close the tab and played on other tab. Even though he won first round in tournament lichess claim him for computer assistance which he was not doing. I know this as I was in that room. I can't guide him because I don't know anything of chess.

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.

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.

Neither Lichess nor Chess – Play and Learn, aka Chess.com, provide anything close to the service their public relations spin claims they provide. I have screenshots of vicious verbal abuse threatening violence from members of both chess app developers, sent well over 10 screenshots documenting all manner of cheating, game abandoning, delay tactics, and verbal abuse to Google (the attached screenshots are from Lichess, but similar experience comes through Chess.com). I also quoted Google's own policies for software app developers back to Google, documenting point by point the daily violations both companies were engaged in. Google did absolutely nothing but give me the run around for nearly a year. Conclusion? Big tech does exactly what it wants if it means profit, and ignores abuses of many kinds outright, then lies directly to the public with public relations statements that have no relation to their actual practices

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

Terrible site, very laggy I lost a tournament because of that also, the time given to play the fist move should be increased to like 2 minutes. In a real tournament you don't lose until all you time is drained. However, I must give credit to the unlimited puzzle limit, something that some sites like chess.com don't offer

There are A LOT of players that made their account in (For example) in 2011 or 2013, and they played 1 or 2 games and quit, there are a lot of good usernames that are taken because of players like this...
Please make that if a player is offline (Quit) then ban there account or something!
Also, if you are about to mate someone in 1 move, or win, but your time runs out... Please make it just be a draw because a lot of games and rating is dropped because of mate in 1 missed opportunity
Thank You!

Every other person you will play on this site is an engine cheater or has other guidance, making rating completely worthless as an indicator of skill. Playing games becomes incredibly anti-fun with player after player playing the exact same moves, with the exact same speed. Support people are non-existent, and automatic cheat detection is deficient to the point of being worthless, if any, that is, exists, in the first place.

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

I'm a long-time chess player and this site is horrible. You are playing with bots instead of real people and they ban you for no reason. There are a lot of much better alternatives for my fellow players out there. Please don't waste your time on this garbage, you can do better.

It's honestly disgusting how badly managed this platform is. Every 2 or 3rd player is abusive, racist and homophobic. If you report that individual to moderators, the MOST they will do is timeout that person for EIGHT minutes. That is the penalty for threatening death and hostility upon other chess players -- 8 minutes in timeout. What an awful joke.

Scam. They ban your account for no reason. Also It seems there are bots in place...

If you try and accuse someone of cheating you'll get a sleazy message saying repeating this will result in loss of communication. Which is ironic because I was trying to communicate and you've lost me as a player. Just awful. Zero stars.

Worst chess site. Dictatorial management. Dumb developers. I can go on and on. Better to play by yourself. They allow cheaters. Better yet encourage it with minor slaps on their wrists. They punish those that let the time run out a few secs while youre thinking ofcourse more harshly than cheaters. I guess youre not allowed to think in this game i a losing position and have to quit the game,,, how stupid. They lag in the game review dept. 2 week wait time to see your games played... another dumb

Ils ban les gens parce que ils font des compte multiples et puis si tu changes d'ordi et que t'es sur la même adresse ip. Lichess te ban. Franchement lichess est une mauvaise communauté. Arrêtez lichess et trouvez une autre plateforme en ligne. J'essaye d'en trouver. Lichess = merde, nul…

Nearly all of their practice programs are flawed. They present you with puzzles in which you find the "best move", but the moves the computer says are the best work off of a deeply flawed algorithm. It promotes getting check above all else, even when it is suicidal. Another example from my experiences with these puzzles is it presented me with a game in which I had the option to move my knight into a position in which it would either take the opponent's rook or queen, obviously the best move, however, their bot said that the best move was a suicidal check performed by my queen in which it could be taken out by a pawn. Yes, really. It constantly promotes these puzzles and analyses done by the bot, which needs improvement. This is why I do not recommend lichess beyond playing with people or friends. The community is great, the experience you can gain is great, but the bot they continually shove in your face will only serve to annoy you with its complete lack of ability to analyze.

Lichess is free and has a pleasant UI, unlike Chess.com which is very busy and not particularly "friendly". As your victories mount, it will move you into higher level competition. Not bad. But, Lichess likes to play Big Brother and if you either walkaway or in my case, time-out while thinking-out moves. In Blitz, it will put you into a time-out like a wayward child. Not sure, but I think they also slow-down the rate at which they match you up with games, and/or match you up with lower-level players. Further, they won't respond to emails at *******@lichess.org, which I think is irresponsible. So, Lichess is... better than nothing.

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...

I've played on this site a lot (~3,000 games) however last week I got banned for cheating. I don't care about ratings, I did not cheat. They have a forum for appealing, however when I did this the moderators didn't overturn the obvious error. I play the same system in incredibly short games, there is no way that anyone who actually looks through my games would think I was cheating. Back to chess.com!

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."

This game is the worst game friend can cheat and i cant my iq is dropping verytime i lose this is not bad chess.com dominance

Cheaters run amok on the site, protected by admins. Reporting them leads to being muted. Covertly muted, so that others can still talk to you but your replies aren't delivered (you are not told this). Unethical all around.