Application Description
This free and open-source chess app, built by chess enthusiasts, offers a comprehensive online and offline chess experience. Boasting a rapidly growing user base of 150,000 daily players, it provides a diverse range of gameplay options.
- Play various chess formats: bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence.
- Compete in arena tournaments.
- Connect with other players, follow them, and send challenges.
- Track your game statistics and progress.
- Sharpen your skills with chess puzzles.
- Explore numerous chess variants, both online and offline: Crazyhouse, Chess 960, King of the Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic chess, Horde, and Racing Kings.
- Analyze games using local computer evaluation or server-based analysis with move annotations and game summaries.
- Utilize an unlimited opening explorer and endgame tablebase explorer.
- Play against an offline computer opponent.
- Enjoy "Over The Board" mode for offline play with a friend.
- Use the integrated standalone chess clock with customizable time settings.
- Edit the board layout with the built-in board editor.
- Access the app in over 80 languages.
- Experience seamless gameplay on phones and tablets, with landscape mode support.
- Completely free, ad-free, and open-source!
This app, mirroring the ethos of lichess.org, is licensed under the GPL v3 license, ensuring it remains free and ad-free perpetually.
Source code: Mobile app: https://github.com/veloce/lichobile Website & server: https://lichess.org/source
Version 8.0.0 Updates (Dec 10, 2022)
The app receives ongoing updates with new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes. For detailed release notes and information, visit: https://github.com/veloce/lichobile/releases
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