I use lichess. The one downside is apparently the ratings on lichess are somewhat inflated
Chess.com vs. Lichess
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Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#92I spent a lot of time on chess.com (including paying for membership) but recently switched to lichess, because simply it feels a better, more polished, product. Love the fact it does not have ads ( https://lichess.org/blog/YF-ZORQAACAA89PI/why-lichess-will-a... . ) unlike chess.com which is ad-infested. Lichess is very customizable. Love the everyday tournaments and the community there as well. Would pay for it. The…
Ever heard about En Passant?
Holy hell
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#93Related, but slightly offtopic:
Does anybody know sort of an open source/DIY alternative to digital chessboards like DGT boards? Would love to use something like that for input, but real DGT boards are very expensive, unfortunately.
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#94Lichess is far superior to other chess sites in the interface, quality of play, and quality of the community.
Chess.com does have some excellent pay-extra-to-use content.
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#95A 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')?
Haha I remember a friend had made a lisp one with as few lines as he could use, on his macbook which he used the gyro to install smackbook to change the virtual desktop. https://www.engadget.com/2006-05-25-smackbook-and-macsaber-b... good times.
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#96It'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
Linux servers are everywhere, MS uses linux, linux users are common on here, wikipedia killed Encarta. Don't be amazed, its the norm.
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#97Related, but slightly offtopic: Does anybody know sort of an open source/DIY alternative to digital chessboards like DGT boards? Would love to use something like that for input, but real DGT boards are very expensive, unfortunately.
At one point I was planning to make something using a glass table with a camera underneath it and ArUco markers on the bottom of the chess pieces.
The problem with trying to make something that uses electronics is the number of squares on the board making it quite a big fiddly task.
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#98Regarding interactive training resources, there are other good resources which are partially free (or limited) and partially payable content:
- https://chesstempo.com/ has a great collection of chess puzzles
- https://www.chessable.com is specialized on interactive training. They have may free courses and combine what a classical book (text plus moves) would have done with memorization tools (for openings, tactics etc)
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#99I would love to see XiangQi on Lichess or a suggestion for a good one. I suck at Chinese chess, but after learning it I was demolishing my friends from the headspace it gave me, the complexity really seemed to help me be a better chess player. I feel like I was an amateur "take as many pieces as you can and overwhelm the king" before and Chinese Chess turned me into a "sacrifice your pieces to position yourself better, value the pieces differently at different points of the game, and kill the king ASAP with pressure" player.
In Chinese Chess, I try playing against others and I know I probably lost in the first 5 moves often, I really suck at it, and in 10 moves I usually can tell I lost, I have never won once against a player online.
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Conditional pre-moves on chess.com are very useful for people playing correspondence chess, so that games can finish up a bit more quickly
Lichess also has conditional pre-moves in correspondence chess
thanks, didn't realize that was in there (I only use lichess on my phone though...)