Lichess
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Lichess (, ) is an Internet chess server that is free and open-source, run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play games to earn a rating on Lichess. Lichess is ad-free and all the features are available for free, as the site is funded by donations from patrons, who receive a special badge as thanks for their support. Features include chess puzzles, computer analysis, tournaments and chess variants.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Lichess
- Website.logo
- Lichess Logo 2019.svg
- Website.logo_caption
- Official Logo of Lichess since 2019: a stylized knight
- Website.screenshot
- Lichess homepage.png
- Website.screenshot_alt
- Home page of Lichess
- Website.collapsible
- yes
- Website.type
- Internet chess server
- Website.language
- English, others
- Website.author
- Thibault Duplessis
- Website.advertising
- No
- Website.commercial
- No
- Website.registration
- Optional
- Website.launch_date
- 20 June 2010 ( years ago)
- Website.current_status
- Active
via Wikipedia infobox
Source code
Join us on Discord for more info. Use GitHub issues for bug reports and feature requests. Feel free to use the Lichess API in your applications and websites. Firefox 115+ Full support (recommended) Chromium / Chrome 112+ Full support Edge 111+ Full support Opera 97+ Reasonable support Safari 16.2+ Reasonable support Older browsers will not work. For your own sake, please upgrade. Security and performance, think about it! Lila is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License 3 or any later version at your choice. See copying for details. Lichess would like to support its contributors in their competence development by covering costs of relevant training materials and activities. This is a small way to further empower contributors who have given their time to Lichess and to enable or improve additional contributions to Lichess in the future. For more information, including how to apply, check Competence Development for Lichess contributors.
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- lichess.org
- Image
- Lichess homepage.png
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- social media followers
- 60500
- inception
- 2010-06-20
- source code repository URL
- github.com/lichess-org/mobile
- Alexa rank
- 1277
- software version identifier
- 0.18.2
- FAQ URL
- lichess.org/faq
- official blog URL
- lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog
- Commons category
- Lichess
- Stack Exchange tag
- chess.stackexchange.com/tags/lichess
- API endpoint URL
- lichess.org
- review score
- 4.1
Sources (15)
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Tournaments and events
- Titled Arenas
- Saint Louis Chess Club
- Miscellaneous
- Lichess 4545 League
- Features
- Gameplay, ratings and variants
- Training and analysis
- Puzzles
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Lichess (, ) is an Internet chess server that is free and open-source, run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play games to earn a rating on Lichess. Lichess is ad-free and all the features are available for free, as the site is funded by donations from patrons, who receive a special badge as thanks for their support. Features include chess puzzles, computer analysis, tournaments and chess variants.
== History == thumb|upright=1.2|alt=Thibault Duplessis|Founder Thibault Duplessis in 2021 Lichess was founded in 2010 by French programmer Thibault Duplessis. The software running Lichess and the design are mostly open source under the AGPL license and other free and non-free licenses. The name Lichess is a "combination of live/light/libre and chess".