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The self-hosted Chess.com alternative

Chess.com is an online chess platform providing live and correspondence games, puzzles, lessons and training, engine-backed game analysis, tournament hosting, and social features including profiles, clubs and forums.

Alternatives to Chess.com

Lila is the open source server behind lichess.org, providing real-time chess, puzzles, analysis, tournaments, teams, and community features via web and mobile clients.

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What replacing Chess.com actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 1 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: AGPL-3.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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