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Chess.com vs. Lichess

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Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess

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Post by dvirsky »

e4e5 wrote: post #49
dvirsky wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For one thing, framing your accuracy in percentage instead of the obscure "centipawn loss" makes understanding how well you played much easier. BTW I've compared their analysis on a number of games, and it seemed like lichess is much tougher on you in what it defines as a blunder.

I disagree, ACPL is a well defined system, while nobody really knows what the accuracy means or how it's defined. 1 CPL, in short, is the loss of 1/100th of a pawn. Take the average of that and you get ACPL. So a ACPL of 100 means that you on average lost one pawn on every move (of course this isn't literal) that you played.

I've read the meaning and I can tell what the numbers mean, but it's still less intuitive than percentage.

Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess

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Post by xiaodai »

It's amazing to me that an open source product can be better than a paid product.

I think OGS is quite good vs fox except that fox has alot more players in the go world

Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess

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Post by gompertz »

A smidge off topic, but I'm curious; is there a place where you can upload (say) a chess bot you designed and play against other uploaded chess bots? (or any move base game, even as simple as 'paper rock scissors')?

Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess

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Post by zelphirkalt »

chess.com has always been more laggy when moving pieces around than lichess, which is perfectly lag free animation for me. Not sure what is causing it, but I have the feeling, that it affects my blitz performance a lot, especially in time trouble.

Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess

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Post by monkpit »

gompertz wrote: post #53

A smidge off topic, but I'm curious; is there a place where you can upload (say) a chess bot you designed and play against other uploaded chess bots? (or any move base game, even as simple as 'paper rock scissors')?

Yeah, I also thought this was going to be bot vs bot :)

Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess

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Post by ummonk »

I wonder how much general agreement there is with these opinions. Personally I agreed with most of the UI opinions except the preference for L-shaped knight move arrows.

Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess

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Post by Freeboots »

samdg wrote: post #16

A feature I was surprised not to see in the "Cleaner page UI during chess games" section: Lichess has a zen mode that maximally simplifies the UI. It removes the chat, navigation menu, move history notation. You're left with the board, clocks, resign/draw/takeback actions, and move replay. You can activate it by pressing "Z" during a game, and there's a menu option too.

Oh my god you can turn it on during a game?

Here I am turning it back on via the menu after saying GG each game! What a chum!

Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess

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Post by joshuamorton »

gompertz wrote: post #53

A smidge off topic, but I'm curious; is there a place where you can upload (say) a chess bot you designed and play against other uploaded chess bots? (or any move base game, even as simple as 'paper rock scissors')?

Lichess allows you to upload a custom bots and play them (and other can too), and I believe you can also run against other bots. There's also https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship, but IDK how one enters.

Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess

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Post by aflag »

willbw wrote: post #6

It seems pointless to discuss chess.com without mentioning the paid features like game analysis which are much more user-friendly than Lichess.

I find game analysis in lichess much better than chess.com's. The advices it gives out are usually rubbish.

Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess

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Post by jeremyjh »

tzs wrote: post #46

It has been a few years since I looked at any of the major chess sites, but it used to be that chess.com had way more teaching and training material than lichess. Where do they stand nowadays in that regard? I also see that ChessCube.com is gone. Too bad. They had an interesting tournament format whose name I forget that was wild and fun. Instead of having a fixed number of games like normal tournaments, these ran fo…

Lichess has some good lessons especially for beginners but they don't have audio like chess.com's. I think they are good though and what is neat about them is they are based on the studies feature, so anyone can create an interactive lesson on Lichess and share them. When my kids got interested in chess I created Lichess accounts for them.

Some of chess.com's content helped me when I first started playing again, but I later found other free stuff that's just as good. It is nice to have it all in one place but I cancelled my membership when I found out I only got 25 puzzles a day with my "gold" membership. That is just lame.

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