Why Lichess, the Wikipedia of chess, is loved by hobby players and grandmasters alike | Chess News
When Theophilus Wait talks about Lichess, the company that he works for, he likes to describe it as something of a “Wikipedia for chess”. Over the past month, some of the world’s top grandmasters have gone on social media to paint a picture of a chess app that is much more than that. Srinath Narayanan, for example, called it “the only chess app he needs” in a Twitter post earlier this month. Vidit Gujrathi in an “appreciation post” called it an “absolute delight to use”, to which Dutch grandmaster Anish Giri responded by saying: “And there is a lot more to say (about Lichess).” At the ongoing FIDE World Cup, several grandmasters like finalist Javokhir Sindarov, SL Narayanan, Lorenzo Lodici and Sam Sevian have also used various functions of the Lichess app to prepare for the games, from the puzzles to blitz tournaments to the analysis feature. “You could name basically any chess player and they’ve used Lichess at some point. Be it Magnus Carlsen or Indian players like Arjun Erigaisi, Praggnanandhaa and Gukesh as …
