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[8] [9] The software running Lichess and the design are mostly open source under the AGPL license [10] and other free and non-free licenses. [11] The name Lichess is a "combination of live/light/libre and chess". [12] On February 11, 2015, an official Lichess mobile app was released for Android devices. [13]
[7] [8] Chess app downloads on the App Store and Google Play Store rose by 63% after the show debuted. [9] Chess.com saw more than twice as many account registrations in November as it had in previous months, and the number of games played monthly on Lichess doubled as well. [10]
Chess.com saw more than twice as many account registrations in November as it had in previous months, and the number of games played monthly on Lichess doubled as well. There was also a demographic shift in players, with female registration on Chess.com shifting from 22% to 27% of new players. [ 185 ]
[5] [6] It was soon after incorporated into the Middle East Wild Internet Server (MEWIS) and other smaller servers before being implemented at Chess Live and Internet Chess Club in 2000, Free Internet Chess Server in 2003 and Lichess in 2015. [7] [8] It was added to Chess.com in late 2020. In 2021, 4.9 million atomic chess games were played on ...
Chess.com said it reached 100 million users on December 16, 2022, [5] and had about 11 million daily active users as of April 2023. [6] Chess.com has hosted online tournaments, including Titled Tuesdays, the PRO Chess League , the Speed Chess Championships, PogChamps , Online Chess Olympiads, and computer vs. computer events.
A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation.
Losing chess [a] is one of the most popular chess variants. [1] [2] The objective of each player is to lose all of their pieces or be stalemated, that is, a misère version.In some variations, a player may also win by checkmating or by being checkmated.
Handicaps (or "odds") in chess are handicapping variants which enable a weaker player to have a chance of winning against a stronger one. There are a variety of such handicaps, such as material odds (the stronger player surrenders a certain piece or pieces), extra moves (the weaker player has an agreed number of moves at the beginning of the game), extra time on the chess clock, and special ...