“We need $720,000 per year to run Lichess and we get it through donations, averaging about five Euros per person,” says Wait. “We want to keep Lichess completely free, and say no to ads as well. There ...

Free Online Chess ( www.chessmaniac.com) an Online Chess LLC website is now beta testing a new tournament format know as the Swiss System Tournament. A Swiss system tournament is a commonly used type ...

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GenChess lets you design the pieces with AI then play the board It uses the Imagen 3 image-generation engine from Google Gemini GenChess is free to play and you can redesign the pieces as many times ...

Lichess is one of the world’s leading gaming websites and among the biggest success stories in open source. Somewhere between six and seven million chess games are played on Lichess in a day, and the ...