lichess • Online Chess for iOS

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:
– Vincent Velociter (lead dev) https://github.com/veloce
– Renaud Bressand (design) https://twitter.com/RenaudBressand
– Thibault Duplessis (dev) https://github.com/ornicar
– Sebastien Renault (dev of stockfish plugin) https://github.com/srenault
– Mark Henle (dev) https://github.com/freefal

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