lichess

A free, open-source chess game for online and offline play.

Crafted for chess enthusiasts, this fully open-source app is freely available to everyone.

- Over 150,000 daily active users with rapid growth.

- Enjoy bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence chess formats.

- Compete in arena tournaments

- Discover, follow, and challenge other players

- Review your game statistics

- Sharpen your skills with chess puzzles

- Multiple variants available online and offline: Crazyhouse, Chess 960, King Of The Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic chess, Horde, Racing Kings

- Local computer analysis for game evaluation

- Server-powered computer analysis with move annotations and game summaries

- Unlimited access to the opening explorer

- Endgame tablebase explorer

- Play offline against the computer

- Over The Board mode for playing offline with friends

- Standalone chess clock with multiple time controls

- Board editor

- Supports 80 languages

- Optimized for phones and tablets with landscape mode support

- Completely free, ad-free, and open source!

Following the principles of https://lichess.org, this application is open-source (GPL v3), completely free, and permanently ad-free.

Mobile application source code: https://github.com/veloce/lichobile

Website and server source code: https://lichess.org/source

What's New in Version 8.0.0

Last updated on Dec 10, 2022

We regularly update the app with new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.

Release versions and detailed information can be found at:
https://github.com/veloce/lichobile/releases