chess.com has cute profile pictures for its bots. Bullying "Martin" is just scientifically more fun than bullying "Stockfish Level 1".
Never heard of Lichess before. I’ll try it out.
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
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.
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
I like the UI and the animations on chess.com app better, other than that, it's practically useless after 3 puzzles a day.
For some reason, the position of that asterisk made me think you're talking about a chess-themed porn site.
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Plus the post-gamr analysis tools are great! Tho a bit odd discovery-wise.
Holy hell
Other chess communities:
!Chess@lemmy.ml
!chessbeginners@sh.itjust.works
