According to Alexa rank, Lichess is ranked second only to as one of the most popular internet chess servers in the world. Īs of April 28, 2022, had a global rank of 683 at Alexa, with most of its visitors coming from the United States, India, and China. An app for mobile devices running iOS was released on March 4, 2015. On February 11, 2015, an official Lichess mobile app was released for Android devices. The name Lichess is a 'combination of live/light/ libre and chess'. The software running Lichess and the design are mostly open source under the AGPL license and other free and non-free licenses. Lichess was founded in 2010 by French programmer Thibault Duplessis.
History Founder Thibault Duplessis in 2021 Features include chess puzzles, computer analysis, tournaments and chess variants. Lichess is ad-free and all the features are available for free, as the site is funded by donations from patrons. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play rated games. Lichess ( / ˈ l iː tʃ ɛ s/ LEE-ches) is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name.
