lichess • Free Online Chess

lichess • Free Online Chess

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VERSION/BUILD:
4.13.0
UPDATED:
14 June 2017
REQUIRES ANDROID:
4.4 and up
FILE SIZE:
29.67 M
Built for the love of chess, this app is open source and free for all.

- 150 000 individual users daily and growing fast.
- Play bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence chess
- Play in arena tournaments
- Find, follow, challenge players
- See your games stats
- Practice with chess puzzles
- Many variants, available online and offline: Crazyhouse, Chess 960, King Of The Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic chess, Horde, Racing Kings!
- Game analysis with local computer evaluation
- Server computer analysis with move annotations and game summary
- Opening explorer in all variants
- Endgame tablebase explorer for standard chess and atomic chess
- Play against offline computer
- Over The Board mode to play offline with a friend
- Standalone chess clock with multiple time settings
- Board editor
- Available in 80 languages
- Designed for both phones and tablets, supporting landscape mode
- 100% free, without ads, and opensource!

Chess variants are supported, either in online and offline modes! Try them all:

- Crazyhouse: every time a piece is captured the capturing player gets a piece of the same type and of their color in their pocket.
- Chess960: pieces on the home rank are randomised.
- King Of The Hill: bring your king to the center to win.
- Threecheck: check the opponent king three times.
- Antichess: lose all your pieces to win.
- Atomic Chess: nuke the opponent.
- Horde: destroy the horde to win.
- Racing Kinkgs: race to the eighth rank to win.

Just like http://lichess.org, this application is open source, and respects user freedom. It is entirely free and without ads, now and forever.

Learn more about lichess philosophy: http://bit.ly/2t5PAT7
Source code of the mobile application: http://bit.ly/2swORO0
Source code of the website and server: http://bit.ly/2t6e0fj

Big thanks to the volunteers behind this app:
- Vincent Velociter (lead dev) http://bit.ly/2swV78z
- Renaud Bressand (design) https://twitter.com/RenaudBressand
- Thibault Duplessis (dev) http://bit.ly/2t6gWbJ
- Sébastien Renault (dev of native stockfish plugin) http://bit.ly/2swFGgo
- Mark Henle (dev) http://bit.ly/2t67Trk

Check out the app page on http://bit.ly/2swOSBy, and follow us on twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/lichessorg


Google Play Rating


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What's New
  • New features:
    - hyperbullet 15'' new time setting
    Bug fixes/improvements:
    - fix app hang at startup bug when switching language to hebrew
    - cancelling draw offer is now disallowed like in the website
    - show last training rating in rating graph
    - display piece ghost when dragging piece
    - account creation now require email confirmation
    - it is now possible to continue against local AI/OTB from crazyhouse and three-check analysis positions

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