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Why would people ever choose to use chess.c*m over Lichess (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 year ago by samlan@reddthat.com to c/anarchychess@sopuli.xyz

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Imagine for a moment that you could access any book in the world and read it on your device, and this was a service offered by the public library. The why would you give your time and money to Jeffrey Bezos and use audible for the exact same service? Is this even a choice? Can someone explain to me why anyone would use chess.c*m over Lichess?

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[–] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

chess.com has cute profile pictures for its bots. Bullying "Martin" is just scientifically more fun than bullying "Stockfish Level 1".

[–] Jaydeep@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I like the UI and the animations on chess.com app better, other than that, it's practically useless after 3 puzzles a day.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 year ago

I built an API layer for Chess.c*m. I should release that. Made it to build an open source board, but never did the hardware part

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

For casual players they hear about chess.com via a paid ad, try it out, enjoy it, and then stick around because that's where the other casual players are. Lichess is much more adept players making it much less fun for the casual player

[–] Papercrane@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I use both and I just think that chess.coms UI is superior to lichess. It just looks so much nicer. Obviously lichess gives you free puzzles and free analysis for all games which is arguably better.

[–] fly_paper_love_maker@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Never heard of Lichess before. I’ll try it out.