I use lichess. The one downside is apparently the ratings on lichess are somewhat inflated
Lichess uses Glicko-2 rating method, see https://lichess.org/faq#ratings
Chess.com vs. Lichess
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Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
> taking super long to make moves in a game that's obviously been lost I'm a novice still (~1500), but at this level you can easily come back from a lost game. Opponents sometimes think that I'm stalling, but in reality I'm trying to make the best out of a lost position. My opinion is that if you go into a game with a certain time limit, the players have full right to use that time how they please. If you are in a hu…
I don't play that much chess, but: If a player has 60 minutes for all their moves, then spend less then a minute for each move, until they are so far behind that in your mind, the game is over, now, they are spending 20 minutes on one move. And I have to still sit in front of the computer, because if I leave, they might make a move just before their timer runs out, hoping that I have already left the room, and now I…
Isn't the idea to set the maximum time permitted per-move to match whatever your personal patience level is?
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#163A lot of people have an emotional and philosophical attachment to lichess, which is understandable. It's surprisingly (almost inexplicably...) free, clean, pleasant, awesome, and featureful. However, chess.com does have its advantages as well as unique features. And it is much quicker to find a match. I like both, but chess.com design is too busy for my taste. I'd use lichess a lot more if it didn't take so long to find a match, specially in certain times of the day.
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's weird, I've only ever used "subscription" as per this definition[0]: "A subscription is an amount of money that you pay regularly in order to belong to an organization, to help a charity or campaign, or to receive copies of a magazine or newspaper." [0] https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/subscri...
I get what you mean and I think the other guy was indeed misleading about this, but there really are lots of contexts where subscriptions are free. In the classic postal sense newsletters are mostly free (and yes, mostly spam), when a program "subscribes" for events from another program there isn't cost involved; and most importantly youtube channel subscriptions exist. I also had the impression he implied paying for…
Understood. I must be using it more pedantically than most. I think I use "sign-up/register/account" in those newer contexts.
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#165If you've been following these two products for the last few years it's definitely clear to see that Lichess is slowly eating chess.com's lunch ... They're not fast at development, but slowly and surely improving and innovating on the space via being open source. For example, Lichess puzzles aren't quite of the same quality yet and their puzzle games are new (BUT) they've built and are improving the tech to create ne…
Interesting perspective. I have subscriptions to both and my first reaction was the exact opposite of yours. Chess.con is so far ahead of lichens that it wasn’t debatable. What in your opinion leads you to believe that lichess is eating chess.com’s lunch. For me games are far easier and quicker to setup with chess.com. The drills are better at chess.com and so are the lessons, both in-depth and breadth. I can’t reall…
Lichess is libre, ad-free, gratis, open source, doesnt require a login, or anything. Chess.com cant even compete for me.
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tournament UI has been broken on iOS for years. It doesn't register taps properly and some UI elements are not shown where they should be. OTOH, the website works pretty well on mobile, scrolling aside. In general, I also had the feeling that the lichess UI is a bit more immediate, it was easier for me to get around. But I think a big difference is not in features or UX, but the behaviour of the players. Because…
I mean such behaviour is not uncommon on chess.com either. I've reported multiple people for game abandonment / abusive language / acting like jerks / taking super long to make moves in a game that's obviously been lost / etc. My inbox is on chess is full of such generic boilerplate messages from chess.com; I doubt they really kick anyone off their platform though (unless the player does something extreme): We've tak…
Presumably they can see how many times a player has been reported to abandon a game ahead of time. If it is the first report, I can understand they do nothing. If it is report number 10 ...
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting perspective. I have subscriptions to both and my first reaction was the exact opposite of yours. Chess.con is so far ahead of lichens that it wasn’t debatable. What in your opinion leads you to believe that lichess is eating chess.com’s lunch. For me games are far easier and quicker to setup with chess.com. The drills are better at chess.com and so are the lessons, both in-depth and breadth. I can’t reall…
A great Lichess feature is that you can turn off ratings completely in settings, for the whole site. They're still used for matchmaking but kept completely hidden. Far better experience.
I like this setting, but it makes the home page look barren to me. It totally removes the central block showing the leaderboard and tournament winners, becuase they contain ratings.
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I have subscriptions to both I'm not sure how you have a subscription to Lichess when it's a free site. Do you donate? > My Elo rank on lichess is a full 500 points higher on lichess than chess.com The ratings difference on lichess is arbitrary. Everyone starts higher (1500 vs 1200), so the average is higher. > For me games are far easier and quicker to setup with chess.com Unless I've missed something on chess.com…
> I'm not sure how you have a subscription to Lichess when it's a free site A subscription can just be an account - it doesn’t necessarily have to be a paid subscription.
The most commonly used meaning of “subscription” is literally “the action of making or agreeing to make an advance payment in order to receive or participate in something.” And if the original commenter didn’t mean to be misleading and meant they had free accounts on both services, why mention having a “subscription” at all? It’s completely irrelevant.
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#169One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the ability to play without logging in on lichess. Very convenient when you want to play with a friend.
Also useful when you want to try strange or unusual openings without ruining your rating
Re: Chess.com vs. Lichess
#170If you have some server sitting idle you could consider contributing cycles to the fishnet: https://lichess.org/get-fishnet
Neat. Is this vulnerable to abuse by submitting bad results back to the server, or have they figured out a low-cost way of verifying the integrity of the results somehow?
TBH I don't know if they feature any kind of protection against that.
You can check/ask here https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet/issues