Lichess chess you can play now

What a game includes

You play one color. The bot plays the other. Easy search looks one move ahead and will miss a tactic. Medium looks two. Hard looks three, with a short capture search after that, and it will still miss lines a full engine finds.

Time controls are 5+0, 10+0, and 15+10, plus an untimed board. The number after the plus is the increment in seconds, added after you move. If a clock hits zero, that side loses on time.

The moves are written out as PGN under the board. To step through a saved game, use PGN import. To set a custom start, use the board editor and choose Play from here.

How this differs from a Lichess lobby

A Lichess lobby pairs you with another person, or with a bot account on their server. This board never connects to a rated pool. Resign, undo, and flip are local. Nothing here changes a rating on lichess.org or Chess.com.

Lichess also offers casual and rated time controls, tournaments, and correspondence. Those live on the official site. The rules of the pieces are the same: 64 squares, promotion on the last rank, and checkmate ends the game.