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They’re a great site for chess and chess variants. And their live commentary of chess events is actually exceptional.

by awb 5y ago

guidopallemans 5y ago
They're great, but far from the best
stouset 5y ago
I can't comment as to their commentary, but lichess has them soundly beat in pretty much every other way.
- dmingod666 5y ago
  Seriously, 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 ago
    I 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 ago
      It 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.
- edgyquant 5y ago
  Incorrect. Chess.com has a superior lessons system (it isn’t just text and a predefined board) and it has a superior computer to play against. In Lichess you have to use one of 7 levels in chess.com you have a sliding scale from 250-3200 and they have a lot more tools to analyze the game both during (when playing bots) or after. I use both but I swear that the comments I see dissing chess.com seem to be from people who are hardly familiar with it.
publicola1990 5y ago
They don't support variants on the app which lichess does.

They’re a great site for chess and chess variants. And their live commentary of chess events is actually exceptional.

by awb 5y ago

They’re a great site for chess and chess variants. And their live commentary of chess events is actually exceptional.

guidopallemans 5y ago

They're great, but far from the best

stouset 5y ago

I can't comment as to their commentary, but lichess has them soundly beat in pretty much every other way.

dmingod666 5y ago
Seriously, 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 ago
  I 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 ago
    It 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.
edgyquant 5y ago
Incorrect. Chess.com has a superior lessons system (it isn’t just text and a predefined board) and it has a superior computer to play against. In Lichess you have to use one of 7 levels in chess.com you have a sliding scale from 250-3200 and they have a lot more tools to analyze the game both during (when playing bots) or after. I use both but I swear that the comments I see dissing chess.com seem to be from people who are hardly familiar with it.

publicola1990 5y ago

They don't support variants on the app which lichess does.