The Lichess story: the cool, open-source site helping power the chess boom

Analysing how Lichess grew from a small open-source project into one of the world’s biggest chess platforms with no ads, no ...

Lichess: serving chess community, free of cost

“We need $720,000 per year to run Lichess and we get it through donations, averaging about five Euros per person,” says Wait.

Why Lichess, the Wikipedia of chess, is loved by hobby players and grandmasters alike

What makes the site stand out and endears it to top grandmasters and hobbyists alike is that it is a completely free resource ...
Sportstar

With just a three-man core team, Lichess focusses on serving chess community, free of cost

Lichess is one of the world’s leading gaming websites and among the biggest success stories in open source. Somewhere between ...
Ars Technica

Lichess Chess Thread

Hi Folks. I will edit this to make it more substantial. We want EVERYONE who might be playing in our Annual AlphaMeridian Chess Tournament to (right now) sign up for a Lichess account and begin using ...