lichess

Discover the ultimate chess experience with the one free/libre open-source online and offline chess game, crafted out of pure passion for the game. This app is not just free; it's open source, inviting everyone to enjoy and contribute to its development.

Boasting a vibrant community of over 150,000 daily users and growing rapidly, this platform offers a comprehensive chess experience. Whether you're into bullet, blitz, classical, or correspondence chess, you'll find a mode that suits your pace. Dive into the excitement of arena tournaments, challenge friends, or find new opponents to test your skills against.

Enhance your chess prowess with detailed game stats, sharpen your tactics with chess puzzles, and explore a variety of chess variants including Crazyhouse, Chess 960, King Of The Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic chess, Horde, and Racing Kings, all available both online and offline.

Analyze your games with local computer evaluation or delve deeper with server computer analysis, complete with move annotations and game summaries. Utilize the unlimited opening explorer and endgame tablebase explorer to refine your strategies. Whether you're playing against the offline computer or in Over The Board mode with a friend, the app caters to all your chess needs.

Additional features include a standalone chess clock with multiple time settings, a board editor, and support for 80 languages. Designed for both phones and tablets, the app supports landscape mode for an optimal viewing experience.

This 100% free, ad-free, and open-source application mirrors the ethos of lichess.org, adhering to the GPL v3 license. It promises to remain free and ad-free indefinitely. For those interested in the technical side, the source code for the mobile application is available at https://github.com/veloce/lichobile, and for the website and server at https://lichess.org/source.

What's New in the Latest Version 8.0.0

Last updated on Dec 10, 2022

We're committed to enhancing your chess experience with continuous updates featuring new functionalities, improvements, and bug fixes. For detailed release notes and more information, visit https://github.com/veloce/lichobile/releases.