Chess.com vs Lichess.org
Which site is better for you?
Our team has done quite a bit of work and analysis on this topic which we believe is very important to understand which website is better and why. In our team’s opinion, it is chess.com that is superior to Lichess. Chess.com generally has more features and is better for you to stick with. However, both are Ok in our team’s opinion.
Why chess.com?
During our research on this topic, our team came across the fact that Lichess has 4 ratings based on time, bullet, blitz, rapid, and classical. The classical time control issn’t exactly the best choice of words. To our eyes 30+0 is rapid, not classical. Inside the Headquarters, we had a debate as our chess analysts agreed that any time control using more than 50 minutes on either side should be considered classical chess. Lichess, therefore doesn’t meet this criteria for classical so therefore we think it is a bit misleading. On top of that, even though Lichess has a database of all the games played on Lichess ever, our team mostly agrees on the fact that chess.com has superior analysis due to the fact that game review and better tools are offered. On chess.com, you can still customize the time control to classical.
I like Lichess though!
It is fine to us if you stick with Lichess, to our team, it is Ok to use either, but another benefit of chess.com is that your elo isn’t inflated. However, chess.com is the better of the two.