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Does anyone play on any other chess websites?

#11
the only advantages have chess.com against lichess are

1. More pros (but who cares we never will play against them anyway :) )
2. Much bigger and better learning section with more than 4000 lessons i guess. ( 1 /day if free account) or you have to pay for it for full feature. And the price is really reasonable like 50$ and 100$ /year i think. WAY MUCH LOWER THEN THE RATE OF 1 HOUR COACHING OF SOME CHESS HUSTLERS HERE;) ( i have nothing against chess coaches but,...)
For me the two site are different but complementary. i prefer play here but i prefer learn on chess.com.

#13
I play on lichess and chess.com.
I prefer lichess...and i play by phone with the fantastic lichess app.
But for me lichess should do something for increase pros Players to play here...like titled tournaments....or similar.
Is true...i never will play against a pro player...but is nice to know that my favourite site is used by pros players.

Another suggestion for lichess...

Should be nice to have a rating closer to real fide rating.
Here in lichess the ratings are tooooo inflated.

For me the ratings, here, are about 200-250 points higher than fide ratings.
#16
chess.com has power monger moderators who invent definitions for words and if their opinion differs from you they'll ride you. it also purposely loads third party garbage onto your computer and if someone there doesn't like you they can make the garbage loading all game long cutting into your time. it's egregious much like the federal reserve.
#17
I've played on QueenAlice for 15 years or so, I think, and still do. I also play on GameKnot, although that's now my least used site. I also play on Chess.com and ICS. Discovered Lichess via IM John Bartholomew of Chessable.com. He made several YouTube videos of himself going through tactics problems here at Lichess, and so I tried it here. I definitely like the tactics server here better than anywhere else, and am getting to like playing live games here better than elsewhere as well. Very, very nice site, which I recommend to friends now.

Tom Ewald
Detroit Area
#18
I have been playing on chess com for 8 years every day! But they become very greedy and don't respect players so few months ago I decided to look for another chess site. I visited 10 top sites and choose lichess. I am very satisfied with this site, in the matter of fact I didn't expect it to be this good. There are many useful features which are free. I was surprised one day when after losing a game on this site only 5 min later I got notification that I lost to a cheater and they refund my rating points! Something like that you dont get on any other chess site. So I believe I ll play here for a very very long time and I ll recomend this site to all friends who play chess.
#19
I play on various websites.I Like lichess.org,because of it s tournaments,
but!
It woukd be goood if we could orgnaize a eam tournament...
And elo rating inflated.
Chess.com as chess24.com are nit completely free,tha is why i hate it.
thx,
keksi,the_Loving_boy,keksiwirdGM.
#20
"Does anyone play on any other chess websites?"

If you asked that question at chess.com your comment would be deleted in less than a minute. If you asked this question a 2nd time you would never be able to write a comment there again.

At lichess we have freedom of speech. At chess.com Big Brother is always watching.

#8 wrote "I played in chess.com for years. This site kicks it's ass 100-0"

I agree. Lichess is the best. Nobody else comes close. I ignore the other websites for playing chess because in my opinion there is no reason for them to exist.

For looking up grandmaster games (which I import to lichess for the free analysis) or watching grandmaster tournaments or for chess news I like chessgames.com & chessbomb.com & theweekinchess.com & reddit.com/r/chess/

Lichess is free but fortunately being a patron is allowed. en.lichess.org/patron/list

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