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Lichess or Chess.com

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Which is better?

Hello guys. This is a problem that keeps bugging me , Lichess or Chess.com?
I've searched it on the internet asked some people to give you a deep understanding about everything.

For your information

Lichess is a non-profit organization in which every feature is free but in chess.com to use certain features you have to pay.

Which website is the most popular?

Looking at the results , chess.com appears to be in the lead with about 10M monthly active users on average while lichess only records about 4M. The main reason for this might be the more appealing design of the chess.com interface and many other features ( Real life players as bots , Teams having more features and of course the name itself ( chess ) and the domain (.com).

Lichess Homepage


Chess.com Homepage

Features

Chess.com has more features than Lichess does. But recently lichess has added some of the features that chess.com has like Flairs. One of the main reasons that lichess hasn't got a lot of features is because they have to give the priority to more important features as they heavily rely on donations.

My opinion

I'd say that lichess is a THOUSAND times better because on lichess you don't lose 0.1 seconds for a premove and the interface is much cleaner. The community here is better and it's free!


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