Chess.com or Lichess?

There are more cheaters here

if you write here then the probability is higher that u choose chess.com. If there would be a forum in lichens asking the same question, people would choose lichess.

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Lichess if you are an experienced player. Chess.com if you are a beginner.

Chess.Com

I like getting matched against titled players. On Lichess, that has happened about a dozen times. On chessdotcom, I have about 200 wins against titled players (probably 800 games).

A lot of people are confused and overly focused on the ratings difference between the two. The rating variance doesn't matter. Besides, a great deal of the rating variance is explained in #277.

Chess dot com has vastly more players, more cheaters, and not surprisingly, a higher percentage of complete beginners. It is by far the more popular site.

For strong players, chess dot com offers far more competition.

Chess.com has a far greater percentage of cheaters/accounts than Lichess. That is most likely because chess.com has a much younger user base and a much higher percentage of kids. Your point about more strong competition on chess.com is a good one though. But it is also due to the fact that chess.com has far more accounts--including, presumably, titled players.

Probably not just kids cheating but more accounts usually means more cheating

you are missing my point. greater percentage of cheaters is part of the reason for the ratings variance.

Part of it but also the style is different chess.com is far more positional in play usually and lichess more tactical in my experience also the starting point of beginners is much higher but yes I think cheating plays part of the roll in that

Agreed. Lichess starting ranking is something like 1500 whereas Chess.com's is flexible. But on either site you eventually find equilibrium, so the variance really doesnt matter much. With respect to more titled players on Chess.com than Lichess, Chess.com incentivizes titled players where Lichess does not.

its the opposite with my school. Lichess is blocked, while chess.com isn't

So, now we’re evaluating websites on the basis of whether those trying to get students focused on learning language, math, history have blocked them or not. Strange, and extremely short-sighted criteria.

You kids probably will graduate. Then, if you can afford internet because you are employed, you’ll be able to choose where to play and study chess.

Well think about it like this if it's blocked why play it

Not really the schools block systems go too far they block pretty much everything even educational sites sometimes maybe it's sort of wrong but the schools need to have a better way than just blocking it it makes kids want to bypass it more

Fun fact none of the other sites that bypass blocking for chess.com doesn't work at my school

The only link that works is chess.com

Links like schoolschoolschool.com (or smth like jat ) doenst work

capitalism, if it were a person, would be a sociopath.

all that matters is money. now that cc has become all about the money, you can guess what it says about the owner(s).

lichess is easier to use and give the user more options such as who you play, what color, time control, and playing unrated.

chess.com is better at daily chess.