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Lichess vs chess.com

Hi,

Lichess has more users than chesscube. Now the fans come from other sites?

Can it destroy chess.com/?
Lichess is much interesting than chesscube....!
Lichess may overcome chess.com, but not in the immediate future.

I don't think it will, but I do think lichess is the best place to play chess. 100 percent free means a lot.
according to alexa rank

lichess.org has 85,000 users/ day.
chess.com has 2.65 million users/ day.

Still a long way to go!

As a person who completely moved from chess.com to lichess.org, I think it is very possible that in 2 years time lichess will have more users than chess.com and I absolutely hope so!
In my opinion, what makes lichess so good isn't only the fact that it's free, but also that it's actively developed, and actively has features added. I played on fics for a while, but it bothered me that development was so stagnant -- the devs considered it "finished."
Yeah, lichess is much simpler yet a hell of a lot better. Much easier to just pick up a game and play with someone, on chess.com if you wanted to play with a friend, they'd have to create an account, log into live chess, have them say something in the chat just to add them to your friends list, then challenge them. Give it awhile
I think Lichess should have a better forum... Many people go to chess.com just for the forum (at least me)
The Lichess forum should give the oportunity to: show images; show chess games (like chess.com) and embed youtube videos; the possibility to edit the post afeer send will be nice to.

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