Discover the ultimate chess experience with the one and only free/libre open-source chess game designed for both online and offline play. Crafted with a deep passion for chess, this app is available to everyone at no cost, embracing the open-source community's spirit.
Boasting an impressive daily user base of 150,000 and growing rapidly, this chess app caters to all your chess-playing needs. 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 it all here. Engage in exciting arena tournaments, find and challenge other players, and keep track of your performance with detailed game stats.
Sharpen your skills with a variety of chess puzzles and explore numerous variants including Crazyhouse, Chess 960, King of the Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic chess, Horde, and Racing Kings, all playable both online and offline. Dive deeper into your games with local computer evaluation and server-based analysis, complete with move annotations and comprehensive game summaries. Enhance your opening repertoire with an unlimited opening explorer and perfect your endgame strategies with an endgame tablebase explorer.
Enjoy the convenience of playing against an offline computer or engage in traditional Over The Board games with friends. The app also features a versatile standalone chess clock with multiple time settings and a board editor for customizing your chess setup. Available in 80 languages and optimized for both phones and tablets with landscape mode support, this app is universally accessible.
What sets this chess app apart is its commitment to being 100% free, ad-free, and open-source. Just like the renowned platform at lichess.org, this application is released under the GPL v3 license, ensuring it remains free and without ads now and forever.
For those interested in the technical side, the source code for the mobile application is accessible at GitHub, and 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, we're committed to continuously enhancing the application with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. For a detailed overview of the latest release versions and more information, please visit GitHub.
