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What does the 'li' in 'lichess' stand for?

Asked by LM AdmiralA
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What does the 'li' in 'lichess' stand for?
KillerJAW commented :
its because its a french website so it just translates into 'chess'
PAA commented :
This is a joke. French to chess is "echecs" or "jeu d'echecs"
erikkonstas commented :
@KillerJAW You should have said "Finnish".
Vevochi commented :
Could it be the last name of the guy who created the website?
coolkidjuju commented :
I think 'li' might of been a kind of company or something like that.
ElijahReese commented :
@Vevochi the creator's name is Thibault Duplessis, not ---- Li. I have no idea what it stands for, but maybe in a language translates to "chess" or I know in French "li" is used sometimes, at least I think so.
ElijahReese commented :
Actually: Answered 3 years ago by thibault
lee-chess. The "li" stands for "libre", and uses the same pronunciation.
kamikaze1967 commented :
or maybe someone just thougt its a cool name , not everything has to have a meaning
Hornpiper commented :
Li Zang was the founder along with his cousin Kris Kristopherson
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Answered by LM AdmiralA
Live/Light/Libre. Lichess is pronounced 'lee-chess.'

Live because games are played and watched in real-time 24/7; light and libre for the fact that lichess is open-source and unencumbered by proprietary junk that plagues other websites.

Similarly, the source code for lichess, lila, stands for li[chess in sca]la, seeing as the bulk of lichess is written in Scala, an intuitive programming language.

Lila: github.com/ornicar/lila
Scala: http://www.scala-lang.org/
Insane_Knight commented :
You can choose your own words!

http://www.morewords.com/starts-with/li/
Unihedron commented :
It's specifically "Libre", according to http://ja.lichess.org/qa/46/how-do-you-pronounce-lichess.
LM AdmiralA commented :
It's specifically live/light/libre as mentioned by ornicar in IRC. I asked him before I put this question up.
Chafing_Dish commented :
Also, a lichess is a female 'lich', cf. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lich
XXPROCEDXX commented :
Li = Free Easy And live. Chess= well chess

Lichess = free aesy and live chess
RaggedRob commented :
Those first suggestions smell so much of backronym syndrome.
If you start programming, very often you want a short but unique to your project name, that's simple to say.

Then later people desire to rationalise, I was sure it was named after the fruit lychees, but someone spelt it wrong ;)
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Answered by Kan_Serrot
Thank you for creating lichess. Li, li li

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Answered by FreezingTiger
I always thought the Li in Lichess stood for Lithium, because a lot of the simultaneous exhibitions are named after elements
MagnusSonofCarl commented :
Isn't it a bad feeling discovering how dumb you've been
InnateAluminum commented :
@FreezingTiger because there are lots of elements (118 to be exact), it's a pretty good idea to name exhibitions after them. Also, element names sound cool. Take praseodymium.
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Answered by meltabi
Li stands for Libre, because Lichess is free both as being open-source and requiring no fee to play!
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Answered by revjbudd
I wondered if it was pronounced 'licious' as in the tail end of delicious.
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Answered by Jhyztin
Li stands for libre, libre is a Filipino word. Try to translate the word libre (detect language or Filipino) Well yeah i'm not sure about it but lichess is free and open source
SpartanCTI commented :
its a spanish word too
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Answered by egosdonotrule
And there was I thinking that it might have something to do with Linux ...
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Answered by polylogarithmique
I always thought, for some reason, that it stood for "Licorn".
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Answered by LMLMLM
Sorry guys but how is possible that @Ultimate_SHSL_Gamer is a LI also if he doesn't have Classical points?
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Answered by PiPen05
li in lichess is probably french.
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Answered by Michael134096
Lichess mean Lich play chess. Joke.
But there is some images demonstrated it. http://kasparovchess.crestbook.com/threads/2242/page-94#post-710513
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Answered by paulsliazas
maybe its the developer's name?
LM AdmiralA commented :
The developer's name happens to be Thibault. http://en.lichess.org/@/thibault
skydust11 commented :
He's a genius for creating this. Only thing to do to it in the future is tweaking to make it better. I don't play anywhere else after I found out about this site.
wubs23 commented :
Indeed. By far the best chess website out there. Just free, uncompromised chess.
sponi commented :
I like this site, too. Even on an IPad it is working and I like the layout, not so much colors. So one can be focussing on the important things...... sponi, Germany
PS: but where is the contact to the webmaster, when I have a problem to be discussed.
ChessQueen33 commented :
Who doesn't like lichess??
It's amazing!
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Answered by qwertygotousakorea
It stands for luisiana chess
failcow_9 commented :
lol, point for originality
Es-tactic commented :
Did you mean Louisiana?
nckqefhm commented :
Lol, this is getting so many down votes!
SidharthSree commented :
this means always tell lie or means lionchessmonster.com
Xandawesome commented :
Rip, don't joke in answers I guess lol :P
realpawn commented :
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