How to Join Lichess Beta on iOS

About Lichess

Built for the love of chess, this app is open source and free for all.

  • 150 000 individual users daily and growing fast.
  • Play bullet, blitz, classical, and correspondence chess
  • Play in arena tournaments
  • Find, follow, challenge players
  • See your games stats
  • Practice with chess puzzles
  • Many variants, available online and offline: Crazyhouse, Chess 960, King Of The Hill, Three-check, Antichess, Atomic chess, Horde, Racing Kings!
  • Game analysis with local computer evaluation
  • Server computer analysis with move annotations and game summary
  • Opening explorer
  • Play against offline computer
  • Over The Board mode to play offline with a friend
  • Standalone chess clock with multiple time settings
  • Board editor
  • Available in 80 languages
  • Designed for both phones and tablets, supporting landscape mode
  • 100% free, without ads, and opensource!

Chess variants are supported! Try them all:

  • Crazyhouse: every time a piece is captured the capturing player gets a piece of the same type and of their color in their pocket.
  • Chess960: pieces on the home rank are randomised.
  • King Of The Hill: bring your king to the center to win.
  • Threecheck: check the opponent king three times.
  • Antichess: lose all your pieces to win.
  • Atomic Chess: nuke the opponent.
  • Horde: destroy the horde to win.
  • Racing Kings: Race your king to the eighth rank to win.

Just like http://lichess.org, this application is open source, and respects user freedom. It is entirely free and without ads, now and forever.

Learn more about lichess philosophy: http://lichess.org/blog/U4skkUQAAEAAhIGz/why-is-lichess-free

Source code of the mobile application: https://github.com/veloce/lichobile

Source code of the website and server: https://github.com/ornicar/lila

Big thanks to the volunteers behind this app:

Check out the app page on http://lichess.org/mobile, and follow us on twitter for updates: https://twitter.com/lichessorg

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