chess .com vs lichess

If I had to choose one, I would choose chess.com due to the larger community and some functions that lichess doesn't have. Also chess.com ratings are a bit more realistic than lichess ratings. There are some proponents of having lichess though, such as studies. I have both to maximize my options.

I'm not sure that anything that identifies cheating in other games is at all useful for detecting cheating in chess. How many people in the open source community are developing cheat detection software for chess? Are they really doing that voluntarily, for free, more effectively than someone who is being paid to do that? Not all of the Chess.com Fair Play team is involved in improving cheat detection methods - some of them would be involved in applying the methods that have been developed, for example - but if someone is doing something clever in this space in their spare time, Chess.com would be seeing it and applying it as well.

I prefer the design of chess.com. What I don't like is no infinite tactics without Premium and no infinite analysis without Premium. But I can get over that and occasionally take advantage of offers, like the recent 7 days free Premium.

I find the alternative game modes on chess.com better and the designs are generally nicer, as well as the forums and the social features in general are better integrated here.

I also play on Lichess, but I don't like the look there as well as the lack of an option to play correspondence chess tournaments without separate software.

cc is better for chating and variant

lc is better for playign and practising

The lichess background is way to boring, and you can't multi premove, which ruins all the fun. The only thing I use lichess for is to play a bunch of bullet. There aren't even that much bots. And the ratings are definitely inflated, at least at my level on lichess.

Lichess ratings are really inflated. I got banned for no reason for “cheating” even though I was a 1200 elo noob on lichess, all because I beat my friend with the Blackburn Shilling gambit and he reported me.

Which is why i migrated to chess.com again. (Used it a couple years back.)

The only reason the majority of the people are saying chess.com is because this is a chess.com forum

chess.com is scamming money out of u

like, someone on lichess coded a free game review that is for free

we get unlimited puzzles

and the lessons on chess.com are so bad

I've changed my mind about chess.com too. Anti-cheating here is weak and it's not like chess.com isn't doing enough, it's simply impossible to prevent. Chess.com attempts to hide it (by locking topics about cheating for example).

In general online pvp chess (both at lichess and chess.com) has failed and has no value.

I think lichess payed you to write this. You wrote the exact same thing on another lichess vs Chess.com forum

SHrek

peoples who are saying that lichess is begging it means you guys are blind or mad cause you guys dont watching that it is totally free but chess.com takes cash from users to get analysis puzzles while its free on lichess

Lichess is better because it has a separate category for slower games, which is common sense, and chess.com doesn't which is illogical. Totally.

Lichess is slightly better than chess.com because the puzzles are free.

chess.com has variants that are fun

Hail to chess.com!

Hail to chess.com!

what is lichess? google isnt helping :?

I like chess.com