The Lichess story: the cool, open-source site helping power the chess boom

Analysing how Lichess grew from a small open-source project into one of the world’s biggest chess platforms with no ads, no ...

Why Lichess, the Wikipedia of chess, is loved by hobby players and grandmasters alike

What makes the site stand out and endears it to top grandmasters and hobbyists alike is that it is a completely free resource ...

Lichess: serving chess community, free of cost

“We need $720,000 per year to run Lichess and we get it through donations, averaging about five Euros per person,” says Wait.
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8 Great Chess Apps for Beginners and Grand Masters

The millennia-old pastime of chess has been enjoying an explosion of interest. Whether people are longing for any engaging hobby to keep themselves sane during the long wait, or they fell prey to a ...
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With just a three-man core team, Lichess focusses on serving chess community, free of cost

Lichess is one of the world’s leading gaming websites and among the biggest success stories in open source. Somewhere between ...
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Allie, an AI chess bot, learns to play like humans from 91 million Lichess games

Yiming Zhang didn't grow up playing chess. Like many other people, the Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. student discovered the Netflix series "The Queen's Gambit" during the pandemic and began playing ...