I think lichess.org is far superior in that it has a super-polished UX in ways that are not immediately obvious. After I made the switch from chess.com in 2014 (I had the paid features), it was always extremely annoying to come back. Also lichess.org gives you most of what chess.com tries to upsell you on, for free. As it happens I've re-validated this over the last few days with dozens of games on chess.com. A singl…
Yeah I was surprised at that. I think the arrows on chess.com are one of its biggest shortcomings. They are completely opaque and cover a lot of the board.
I 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 bette…
The entire site is open source. You could make your own.
Also recently switched to Lichess from Chess.com. The biggest benefit so far is the community. I don't know if Lichess just has better mods or if the two sites just attract vastly different crowds.
Some players on Chess.com were downright rude (win or lose) and even had a racial slur tossed at me.
I 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 bette…
I don't have the source, but I remember read the lichess didn't want to implement other board games in their interface.
For XiangQi, I know that you can play it on playok.com (I know the rules and played a few games last time just to get the feeling, but I am more into chess and shogi...).
Interesting, I find the exact opposite. Measuring things in terms of pawns give me a feel of how far behind I was from optimal play, whereas with the percentage, it's quite abstract. What does 70% accuracy mean?
That you're 30% far from optimal play :)
Yeah but what does “far” mean. You have experience with loss of pawns but not distance to optimal play
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.
Love turning on zen mode and just solving puzzles endlessly.
I've played on both (currently on Lichess). Few other distinguishing features: * Chess.com has many excellent user blogs if you're into analysis and chess history. * As a commercial platform, Chess.com can do a lot more to support professional players (Pro Chess League, etc.). * The Lichess studies feature is really good and I don't think there's a comparable feature on Chess.com?
Yeah but what does “far” mean. You have experience with loss of pawns but not distance to optimal play
100% is only best moves (my record is 99.8%), anything above 90 is awesome, etc. I'm not sure what 15 ACPL means, but if you tell me 95% perfect it's more intuitive to me personally. But it might be because I'm not a very good and sophisticated player...
I 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?
I've been teaching my daughter (7) to play chess, and I never knew this rule. She's going to be very excited to learn this one.
Yeah, that’s all I meant, PEXT does the same job as magic bitboards where it’s available. But my point was that either way it’s run once (I seem to remember it’s even a constexpr in recent Stockfishes) so I’d be surprised if it were a major performance hit.
> But my point was that either way it’s run once Both Magic Bitboards and PEXT are run every single time Stockfish thinks of a Queen, Bishop, or Rook. Literally every, single, time. Stockfish does something like 10-million positions per second or something. That's a lot of times the "where can the Queen move" analysis is run. Speeding that routine up by 50% or something (PEXT vs Magic Bitboards) really does make a di…
Variable-shift perfect hashing (fancy magic) is not especially slower than using pext/pdep, and in any case, there is little value in making move generation more performant. A decent move generator using perfect hashing can run at 40 mnode/s, but Stockfish runs at about 1 mnode/s with a single thread (because of the other work it does). A quick application of Amdahl's law shows that the performance gain from speeding up move generation by any amount is negligible. In fact, with a transposition table and staged move generation, for many nodes only a fraction of possible moves are generated.