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Lichess vs chess.com

Yes, chess.com is the heavy weight champion of all classes concerning market share. But in this fight David vs. Goliath lichess shows an amazing speed. I remember the times - not so long ago - when Lichess first time had 2000+ players online. Now I see sometimes 3200+ .

The speed of growth is enourmous! Because Thibault, Clarkey and some others do a really great job! Nowadays LIchess is already Nr. 3 on the market (chess.com #1, playchess #2, chesscube # 4..) but in the near future Lichess can become the second biggest site out there - to reach chess.com seems possible but it is a matter of some time.

Apart from markete success, there are some things where Lichess is really superior:

-the design of the site is pure beauty! (while chess.com has been never very attractive considering optics)

- and if you look through your past games you will recognize that many people you played against, are kicked, they really do something against cheaters on Lichess - without talking much about it - while on chess.com they catch only the dumbest ones and have a serious cheater problem.

Lichess is an amazing story!

ДА БОРЬБА С ЧИТТЕРАМИ РЕАЛЬНА И ИГРОКИ ПРЕДУПРЕЖДЕНЫ
agree @ #24 SS_Totenkopf, exactly my thought..

But there may be reasons:
(1) domain advantage: when I google "chess", chess.com is first link, lichess.org is not in the first few pages.
(2) inertia: people who have first made account and friends elsewhere don't like to start afresh.. although I was one of them who moved, I must admit I didn't have any real friends on chess.com
(3) lack of marketing of this website (obviously because this is non-commercial). Chess.com has many videos by GMs, GM players, etc. many of them may have been motivated by monetary incentives.

I hope lichess.org wins inspite of all the above , and I think it will in the next 3-5 years.
This year is a good momentum for lichess to leap ahead in terms of number of players' growth. I wil start to invite my fellow country-chess players to play on here and establish a lichess country-specific online community.

Thibault, can we have a sub-domain like [country].lichess.org? I hope you will support this initiative. Thanks.
I added (year ago ,I think) to my profile on FICS ( freechess.org) :
I play also on excellent lichess.org via browser, try it ! Totally for free all features.And there are plenty of them.Good anti-cheaters control.Always 2000-3300 players.Also no ads !
yo no creo que lichess sea tan bueno como aquí se dice, a mi me ocurre que hago el movimiento correspodiente, éste se marca en el tablero, pero mi tiempo de juego continúa y no hay manera que cambie, con lo cual ya he perdido casi 200 puntos por finalización de tiempo. Anteriormente no me ocurría ésto y estoy jugando con google chrome. Alguien me puede ayudar ? Gracias
@michima Maybe you have some lag problem... because of your internet connection... Because you have a bad intenet connection...

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