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Paraphrasing what Quintin Smith of SUSD said about the board game Go - You can't review whether or not chess is a good game (hence the lack of star rating), you can only review whether or not you, yourself, like chess.

I do like chess, and Lichess is easily the neatest and most accessible website to play chess online.

best chess site by far

beceremiom

I'm terrible at this. But I am determined to get better.

"Fiziksel oyunun seviyesinde değil, ancak rakiplerine karşı da aman vermiyor, tek bir internet sitesinden dahi bir çok oyun modunda oyun oynama fırsatı sunuyor, sadece satranç oynamaya yaramaktan daha çok işe yarıyor!"

Been playing chess since like I was 7 (OTB, NES, PS2, Mac, you name it). I've been on this site on and off for years, I appreciate that they have never changed too drastically, but the devs are radical smelly French totalitarian cheese-eating surrender monkeys (yes that's an actual French insult, isn't it so clunky and overly long and glorious?). Wanna get away with cheating? Become a Patron and they'll let you use Stockfish on their site or on a different app to get all your moves from.

It’s chess.

How a game can be so replayable?