Description
This free and open-source chess app offers a comprehensive online and offline chess experience. Built by chess enthusiasts, it boasts a large and growing user base (150,000+ daily users).
Key Features:
- Diverse Game Modes: Play bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence chess. Participate in arena tournaments.
- Social Features: Find, follow, and challenge other players. Track your game statistics.
- Practice & Learning: Sharpen your skills with chess puzzles.
- Multiple Chess Variants: Enjoy online and offline play with Crazyhouse, Chess 960, King of the Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic chess, Horde, and Racing Kings.
- Analysis Tools: Utilize local computer evaluation, server-based analysis with move annotations and game summaries, an unlimited opening explorer, and an endgame tablebase explorer.
- Offline Play: Play against the computer, or with a friend using the Over The Board mode.
- Additional Features: Includes a standalone chess clock, board editor, and is available in 80 languages. Designed for phones and tablets with landscape mode support.
- Completely Free & Open Source: No ads, ever. Licensed under GPL v3.
Similar to lichess.org, this app is entirely free and open-source software.
Mobile app 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 Dec 10, 2022)
The app receives ongoing updates with new features, improvements, and bug fixes. For release notes and further details, visit: https://github.com/veloce/lichobile/releases
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