Sites like Lichess

01 · Entity

About Lichess

Lichess lichess.org

lichess.org • Free Online Chess

Free online chess server. Play chess in a clean interface. No registration, no ads, no plugin required. Play chess with the computer, friends or random opponents.

Wikidata: chess online server

Top 10K · #1,175 English 4 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

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Summary by Claude

Free, open-source online chess server where users play rated or casual games against others, friends or the computer, with puzzles, analysis, tournaments, variants and a blog.

Who it’s for

Chess players of all levels

Business model

Donations

• online chess
• play chess online
• chess puzzles
• computer game analysis
• chess tournaments
• chess variants
• play vs computer
• challenge a friend
• Stockfish evaluations dataset

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Lichess’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

1. 01
   Chess.com chess.com Top 1K English

   Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games

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2. 02
   CrazyGames crazygames.com Top 10K English

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3. 03
   wargaming.net Top 10K English

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4. 04
   Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English

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5. 05
   Stake stake.com Top 10K English

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6. 06
   League of Legends leagueoflegends.com Top 10K English

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7. 07
   Quizlet quizlet.com Top 10K English

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8. 08
   War Thunder warthunder.com Top 10K English

   War Thunder — Realistic Military Vehicles Online Combat Game for PC, Xbox and PlayStation. Play for Free

   Play for free with friends in the most realistic online game

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9. 09
   W3Schools w3schools.com Top 10K English

   W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

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10. 10
    Plausible Analytics plausible.io Top 10K English

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11. 11
    RustDesk rustdesk.com Top 10K English

    RustDesk: Open-Source Remote Desktop with Self-Hosted Server Solutions

    RustDesk is open-source remote desktop software for your own self-hosted server, a TeamViewer and AnyDesk alternative for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android.

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12. 12
    Liquipedia liquipedia.net Top 10K English

    Liquipedia

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13. 13
    GameBanana gamebanana.com Top 10K English

    GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001

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14. 14
    Half-Life TV hltv.org Top 10K English

    software for the broadcasting of gaming matches on the Half-Life engine

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15. 15
    GeeksforGeeks geeksforgeeks.org Top 10K English

    GeeksforGeeks | Your All-in-One Learning Portal

    Your All-in-One Learning Portal. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.

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16. 16
    Funinexch funinexch.com Top 10K English

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17. 17
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English

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18. 18
    Stack Exchange stackexchange.com Top 10K English

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19. 19
    CardGames.io cardgames.io Top 10K English

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    GameRant gamerant.com Top 10K English

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    GameRant delivers content written by gamers for gamers with an emphasis on news, reviews, unique features, and interviews.

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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to lichess.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Lichess uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Lichess is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.