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1 min readSep 6, 2025

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Two of the most popular chess websites are Chess.com/ and Lichess.org/. They are both excellent but for different reasons.
Where You Should Be Playing Chess by A.G. Teeter

describes the differences between chess.com/ and Lichess.

I invested in the Gold level on chess.com/ and will continue until I lose interest in chess. I find the forced darker colour themes on chess.com/ very unappealing. Not even the brightest available one compares to Lichess.

I sent a feature suggestion to chess.com/ concerning the way they display the black pieces taken by the opponent. No matter which theme I try, they’re virtually invisible to me, even with a magnifying glass. I like the interactive lessons and the way the daily games are organized, especially the “Notes” feature. Playing a bot is useful when I might get interrupted. There are quite a few options on chess.com/ where Lichess only offers the different levels of Stockfish.

I noticed that the laptop browser offers more features than I can access on my tablet. I wrote about this in Lichess Is Light Years Better In Browser Than On App. A member of our chess club suggested I try the Learn From Your Game feature on Lichess that lets you look at your blunders from a puzzle viewpoint. After practicing this, I wrote instructions for it.

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kit_carmelite
kit_carmelite

Written by kit_carmelite

Married 25 years. Retired SAS programmer from Statistics Canada. Member of Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites since 2008. Love chess..