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True, but who uses chess.com anymore?
by elias94 5y ago
True, but who uses chess.com anymore?
- dabfiend19 5y agowhat do you use?
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agoLichess is much better in most ways.
- mellosouls 5y agoChess.com is much better in most ways.
- gbear605 5y agoI’m not the parent commenter, but I use Lichess. It’s free, supported by donations (so their incentives align with mine more than a business’), open source (which I like ideologically), and in my opinion just has a nicer user interface.
- runarberg 5y agoI started playing chess online less then a month ago. I started with chess.com, because I knew about it beforehand for some reason. After about a week there I couldn’t take their constant nagging about getting premium account: “Get a free 7 day trail”, “Get a premium account to unlock more analysis”, “you’ve reached your maximum puzzles for the day, get a premium subscription to unlock more”, etc. I did some research (mostly on the online-go.com forums) and joined lichess.org and haven’t looked back since. Superior in every way. Perhaps I should thank chess.com for being so annoying, if it weren’t for their constant nagging I would probably have stayed on the platform and never discovered lichess.org.
- mrsalt 5y agoMaybe lichess.org?
- elias94 5y agolichess.org, and I'm also a patron
- edgyquant 5y agoA ton of people.
- awb 5y agoThey’re a great site for chess and chess variants. And their live commentary of chess events is actually exceptional.
- guidopallemans 5y agoThey're great, but far from the best
- stouset 5y agoI can't comment as to their commentary, but lichess has them soundly beat in pretty much every other way.
- dmingod666 5y agoSeriously, I am a paying customer of chess.com -- I for the life of me could not get a new user signed up to play chess with. We wanted to play and selected the wrong level by mistake ( beginner ) -- it won't allow you to play even if you are friends on the site. Horrible user experience. You want to play variants on your phone, can't. go to the website.. Lichess is just awesome! Play anyone you want, variants on the app. Love it.
- matsemann 5y agoI basically only play Lichess now (>3k games last few years), but used chess.com once in a while still to play with friends having an account there. Never had the problem you describe, sounds like PEBCAK. The constant chess.com hating here and on reddit is kinda off-putting, though.
- edgyquant 5y agoIt is. I also use both platforms and you can’t even bring up preferring chess.com here or on Reddit’s chess subs without being downvoted to oblivion and dogpilled. It’s super cult like similar to the way Musk fanboys come out in droves if you even suggest he isn’t some great man of history.
- tomcooks 5y agoThe majority of mainstream chess streamers, apart from the glorious Eric Rosen who's a huge lichess supporter.
- elias94 5y agoBecause they're paid by chess.com
- thejosh 5y agoThey pay streamers to make it look big, and then their viewers have to use chess.com if they want to play them. I have fallen in love with chess again over the past few months, and lichess is an absolutely amazing experience. Their mobile clients (iOS/Android) are both fantastic and BS free.
- surround 5y agochess.com ranks #195 whereas lichess.org ranks #1546 on Alexa's top sites. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chess.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/chess.com https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/lichess.org https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/lichess.org
- ThomasCM 5y agoIf anyone is looking for a way to merge games from lichess.org and chess.com: I'm developing a website where you can link your accounts to view stats for all of your games. It's free and currently in Beta: https://www.chessmonitor.com/ https://www.chessmonitor.com/ Here is an example for the current world champion: https://www.chessmonitor.com/u/kcc58R9eeGY09ey5Rmoj https://www.chessmonitor.com/u/kcc58R9eeGY09ey5Rmoj
- johtso 5y agoI've been wishing someone would make something like this! Always frustrated me that tools like aimchess and openingtree only allow you to look at the two sources separately.. supposedly, at least in aimchess's case, the reason being that the rating systems are different. How do you unify ratings? Edit: ah I see you don't, makes sense I guess. Might be interesting to have them both on the same graph even if the y axis is different..
- ThomasCM 5y agoAs you say, I currently don't. In the future I might check the correlation between chess.com/lichess (when enough users register). Then I should be able to even calculate the chess.com rating from a lichess rating and vice versa. But there are many other features I want to implement first. I'm currently more focused on the statistics part than on the chess.com/lichess relation.
- johtso 5y agoYeah definitely should be the focus! Would be excited to see some of the stats aimchess has implemented.. performance in various phases of the game.. tactics.. advantage capitalization etc. I also found that when clicking through to an opening on your site, it would always say "no games find at this position". Bug?
- mellosouls 5y agoRidiculous comment. Chess.com is brilliant, and I use it as well as the less popular (but also brilliant) Lichess. Lichess is "cooler" because it's non-profit but honestly, comments like that are reminiscent of the childish anti-Microsoft barbs from Linux ideologues that have thankfully declined in recent years.
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- mileycyrusXOXO 5y agoEven if you don’t like or use it, chess.com is a very popular platform with a very large user base