If you're passionate about chess and looking for a comprehensive, free, and open-source platform to hone your skills, look no further than the one free/libre open-source online and offline chess game. Built out of a love for chess, this app is open source and freely available to everyone, ensuring a community-driven experience.
Boasting an impressive user base of 150,000 daily individual users that's growing rapidly, this platform offers a variety of play styles to suit every preference. Whether you enjoy the fast-paced thrill of bullet and blitz chess, the strategic depth of classical games, or the thoughtful pace of correspondence chess, you'll find your perfect match here. Dive into arena tournaments, challenge and follow other players, and track your progress with detailed game statistics.
For those looking to sharpen their skills, the app offers chess puzzles for practice. Explore numerous chess variants both online and offline, including Crazyhouse, Chess 960, King Of The Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic chess, Horde, and Racing Kings. Enhance your gameplay with game analysis powered by local computer evaluation, and delve deeper with server computer analysis complete with move annotations and game summaries.
The platform is equipped with an unlimited opening explorer and an endgame tablebase explorer to help you master every phase of the game. You can also play against the offline computer, or enjoy Over The Board mode to play with a friend in person. The standalone chess clock offers multiple time settings to fit your play style, and the board editor allows for custom game setups.
Available in 80 languages, the app is designed for both phones and tablets, supporting landscape mode for an enhanced playing experience. It's 100% free, without ads, and open source, ensuring that it remains accessible and community-focused.
Just like lichess.org, this application operates under the GPL v3 license, guaranteeing its freedom and ad-free status now and forever. The source code for the mobile application can be found at GitHub, while the source code for the website and server is available at lichess.org/source.
What's New in the Latest Version 8.0.0
Last updated on Dec 10, 2022
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