Lila

Free online chess server. Play chess in a clean interface. No registration, no ads, no plugin required

AGPL-3.0 Free lichess-org/lila · 18K lichess.org Scala Mobile App

Overview

♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞ 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. The project has 18K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

./lila.sh # thin wrapper around sbt
run

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

elasticsearch, mobile app, mongodb, redis.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Mobile & Desktop

Mobile App

Category

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