chess .com vs lichess

Sort:
Avatar of JimmyZhou2014

In Lichess, you're more capable of doing random stuff. And in chess.com, maybe they do a little less. Is it just me or is it harder to win on Lichess than chess.com?

Avatar of PartofShiv
JimmyZhou2014 wrote:

In Lichess, you're more capable of doing random stuff. And in chess.com, maybe they do a little less. Is it just me or is it harder to win on Lichess than chess.com?

My thoughts are same. I win here in bullet but lose on lichess by the same elo.

Avatar of ddave2150
Kylearan wrote:

It's much easier to spectate and keep spectating games on lichess.

It's also much easier to *coach* someone on lichess, since all you have to do is create a study and invite someone to it. I don't think that's even possible on chess.com.

It is possible on chess.com. you just hit the "classroom button" and invite the person to the board

Avatar of ostrichyyy
Chess.com is better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Avatar of ostrichyyy
Also you guys are all bombastic side eyes 😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒😒!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Avatar of ChessUnknown5555
Kylearan wrote:

It's much easier to spectate and keep spectating games on lichess.

It's also much easier to *coach* someone on lichess, since all you have to do is create a study and invite someone to it. I don't think that's even possible on chess.com.

Classroom

Avatar of ian-rastall

Lichess is overrun by bots now. So is chesscom, but they have some rudimentary checks in place that curb the problem. Lichess can't afford that.

Avatar of 75yr

Lichess awarded me points on three occasions in the past five days for my opponents violations of Lichess rules. So they have something in place. I agree that there is a lot of cheating taking place. I lost a game a few weeks ago on chess.com and I thought I played well. And I was right. In a game which had over 50 moves my accuracy was over 88%. My opponent however was 99%. He had zero mistakes and inaccuracies. So I brought it to the attention of chess,com and they awarded me 9 points.

I suspect that some players use computer aids for parts of their games which probably makes cheating detection difficult.

Avatar of ian-rastall
75yr wrote:

I suspect that some players use computer aids for parts of their games which probably makes cheating detection difficult.

I wasn't sure of the extent of it until I began to see them around. They're all over GitHub. There's Chrome extensions, too. Not to mention the old fashioned way.

Avatar of chessismylove4ever
AswanthramSK wrote:

both i like

Me too

Avatar of GMbrissasgdl

Chees🥰🥰

Avatar of junchengjia

hiya

Avatar of VenemousViper

Both are good. I prefer the chess.com interface but lichess has unlimited free puzzles, one of the main reasons for which I'm signed up.

Avatar of ostrichyyy

Uuuuu

Avatar of ostrichyyy
Hi
Avatar of ostrichyyy
Chess.com is better in lichess you can’t have a picture on your username while in chess.com you can
Avatar of ddave2150

That's your reasoning but you dont use a profile picture anyways.

Avatar of carson16788
EKAFC wrote: Also their daily games are much better than chess.com as you don't get sent away from your game after you make a move 

You can change that

Avatar of Piggie_Atlantis

I found a way to pay cheaper for diamond membership in chess.com. I think chess.com is the best one of all.

Avatar of konanekane

Both are good, depends what you are looking for. As a retiree for whom every dollar counts, I prefer lichess, but both sites have plenty to offer. Ratings on lichess are absurdly high, and most of the people I know are on chess.com. Chess.com social structure accommodates teams more readily. But I do like unlimited tactics, opening explorer, game analysis etc. on lichess.

If you don't mind spending some money why not use both? Nothing says you have to use one or the other exclusively.

As an aside, this reminds me of the old debates about ICC vs FICS and similar arguments were made.