Why I prefer lichess to other sites.

Why I prefer lichess to chess.com

1. It's faster and more functional. And I love the feature to see all games at once in little squares. Chess.com is more colorful and maybe looks better at times but functionality and speed comes first. I just hate when you have to wait for the page to load.

2. How tournaments are set up. I love that you don't have to wait for all games to finish when you have won (or lost) a game really fast. It's great that you can play the first player available. I don't know how many times on chess.com where I had to wait for the next game, I started doing other stuff and returned back too late, so I both lost next game AND got kicked out of the whole tournament. Here you always get a second chance and you can even join in the middle of the tournament. Or leave and join again as you please.
However with this system it comes another way of thinking. Some players get to play more games than others, and also sometimes it might be best to take "tactical losses" in order to win the tournament. It may be better to resign right away than waste 10 minutes of your time with a hard fought game against a 2000+ player (if you end up loosing anyway). During those 10 minutes you may beat 2 low ranked player in Berzerk mode. So it might be more tactical thinking than just chess.

3. The chess variants. I had never played Horde before. loved it. I also seldom found opponents to play 960 chess. I wish more variants will come up.

4. I love that you don't have a wall here. On chess.com the only messages you receive on your wall is abuse from sore loosers. 2 our of 10 messages are nice ones. And the administrators won't do anything about it.

5. It's free. All these comparisions are of the paid account of chess.com and still lichess is better in most cases.

6. Where chess.com might be superior are the training features. I love their "chess mentor" feature, and where you can get to play old champs games to see if you can see what they saw and repeat their moves.
I don't know what else might better on chess.com but I'm huge fan of this site so far.

I like both sites but prefer this one.

I also played at gamecolony but had to quit there because they constantly complained about the java update.

What experiences do you have of other pages? And what have I missed?

ALL German chess websites I ever played on suck ass.

in that regard you haven't missed much, OP! >:D

Greetings!
I agree, except I don't have anything written on my wall.
I can observe also that the ratings represent different values on the two sites.

"Chess.com is more colorful and maybe looks better at times"

Stopped reading right there. You have poor taste :P

Because it is a free site to play chess. I also like the forum's free speech policy.

You get often bad vibes on chess.com. Anyway sometimes the articles and the correspondence chess are nice. Here we have a better site to play online, it's very well designed, kudos to the team. Estethics=Ethics. Kenavo!

At chess.com people pay for what they could get here for free, and obviously everything about lichess is much better than chess.com. I refused to waste my money at chess.com so I had to endure their disgusting ads. They actually had animated ads next to the chess games I was playing. Since I recently discovered this perfect website I won't be going back to that awful place.
Interesting fact: If I wrote a comment at chess.com to tell people lichess is much better, is free and has no ads, my comment would be deleted.

When I play on chess.com, I shrink the browser window and slide it to the right. Ads are hidden and the board comes center. Try it if you play on a PC.

Cough, cough, Adblock Plus?
I remember it working in the past, dunno if it still does.