Isn't Chess.com simply better than Lichess ?

It is not impossible to talk about the performance of the two sites in objective terms:



It can be observerd that both sites are going up in the rankings, but the gap is narrowing in terms of absolute ranking difference.

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I'd not say that everything on lichess is really smooth & not laggy, but it's much better than on chess.com for sure. Also Lichess has free top engine built into the site, free opening books, endgame tablebases, unlimited tactics training, lichess study feature. All of these things are unexistent, limited for free users or pay-only on chess.com. I remember that the game history of non-premium users is cleared over time as well. Ads are not such a problem if you have ad blocker)

chess.com also has many features that lichess lacks, for example, bughouse, swiss tournaments, 4-player chess, grandmaster blogspot, lots of learning materials, puzzle rush. No reason to hate it too. They have a working business model, which includes asking money for everything, but they actually use these money for good things you might never persuade Thibault to maintain. And the subscription is not really expensive if chess is important for you.

lichess is great for chess however i feel it caters to easily offended sjw types. there is censorship and reports of curropt mods. just today one of my comment was deleted for no reason. and can some1 tell me why must login to chat now when previously you didnt have to? because some crybabies were offended. they can easily hide chat but no . ruin it for every1. so yeah good site for chess bad site 4 freedom of speech and panders to thinskinned emotional weaklings.

@Longthink agree

chess.com is for money, lichess is for chess. i guess chess.com does some things better, but only a few. lag is also ridiculous.

@lishadowapps is that the rankings for all the websites in the world? That's impressive if chess websites get that high.

#24 I agree. I mostly play on Lichess (occasionally on Chess Tempo, which is also great).

Lichess is a free chess site.
Chess.com is a COMPANY. It's BUSINESS.