Melodía J. Parker

Tag: Lichess

  • An update on my chess progress.

    An update on my chess progress.

    If you’ve been keeping up with my chess progress, then you’ll know that I only started playing chess very recently and that I started on chess.com. On chess.com, I played my very first game to a draw. After a while, I left chess.com and moved on to Lichess. Then, I discovered chess on Duolingo and started playing games on Duolingo (and even winning games there).

    Well, I’ve decided to leave Duolingo and just stick with Lichess. Duolingo was fun, but the games on there weren’t really challenging. I won every game I played, and I think it was because chess on Duolingo is probably geared toward more casual players who maybe play a chess game here and there, but are not interested in learning more. I’m not trying to be in a tournament or anything like that; I just want to get a good challenge.

    After I’ve done some more training and practice on Lichess, I’ll start playing games with other players. Duolingo was just a bit too casual for me. Lichess, along with YouTube videos, is probably all I really need for my chess practice. I’ll be sure to post more as I start getting deeper into chess.

  • Leaving chess.com for Lichess.

    Leaving chess.com for Lichess.

    Last month, I wrote about learning how to play chess and playing my first chess game. I’ve been using chess.com this entire time, but I’ve decided that it is time for a change.

    chess.com has excellent tutorials and puzzles, but I find that it’s way too expensive. There’s a lot of bloat, as well. Since I’m a newbie to chess, I am looking for tutorials, puzzles, and game/move analysis. However, these are very limited on chess.com’s free plan. I decided to have a look at lichess.org. This was exactly what I needed! Tutorials! Puzzles! Game/move analysis! And it’s all free and open source.

    I only have one issue with Lichess and that’s the app for Android. It’s nowhere near as good as the website. So, what I did was install the site as a web app to my phone. Now, that way, I can have the same access to all the features on the site. Perhaps one day the app will be better. But, for now, I’ll use it the site as a web app.