Nice to meet you lichess.org Community!

Hello, I am jrobichess from YouTube. I started playing chess in 2007 and vlogged my learning on http://www.youtube.com/jrobichess . I took a break from chess in 2011 to 2014 due to a number of real life events, including a major life-changing natural disaster that I was in ground zero for. After the destruction and rebuild my passion for chess was re-ignited and I started vlogging my chess journey again.

I have tried many chess sites over the years, including FICS, ChessCOM, ChessCube, in addition to others, but when I found lichess a number of weeks ago, I was absolutely amazed. This site and the work Thibault has done is absolutely AMAZING!

Beautiful layout, plenty of free tools, virtually no lag or disconnects, and an amazing culture! I just wanted to say hello and that I am very glad to be a part of this growing chess community, and I will be pounding out the info about this site in my videos and on Twitter as quality free chess sites like this deserve as much word of mouth for them as possible!

I would also like to thank Thibault for having for having a great policy in terms of streaming and I encourage anyone interested to start vlogging and/or streaming your chess pursuits. You will be pleasantly surprised by both the gains in your overall chess strength but also the cool dynamic people you get to meet when you put your stuff out there. You only live once, might as well share your journey with people while you're walking it!

Take care and may the strongest moves come quickly and clearly in all your games!

~jrobi

Hi jrobi, and thanks for your words and actions.

People like you are precisely what lichess.org needs most.

your danish gambit trap is too good
RUY lopez mortimer trap is also too good

Hey jrobi I stopped playing chess for years until I went on to YouTube and found your videos now I try and get a few games in per day. Even some days when I do not play I watch your videos. It's always a great pleasure to view your videos as they are good. You have a fantastic approach to chess and I would love to play you one day. I to have played chess on different sites but this one is the best and it is thanks to you jrobi that I came here to play.

Welcome.

We should play a couple of games sometime.

Hey JRobi,

I love your videos - keep doing the great work!! I have started following you.

I enjoyed your videos on YouTube. Thanks for sharing them.

Hi Jrobi!

Great to see you here :)

Cheers, K

Just want to join jrobi in applauding Thibault for his fantastic creation called LICHESS. It´s the most fantastic place to play chess and I´m surprised how many wonderful features that are included in the system. Thanks to Thibault I have spent many funny hours with LICHESS. Hopefully LICHESS will not be commercialized in future. Thanks again, Thibault.

Jrobi I am a big fan of your chess videos. They were always fun to watch and made chess more enjoyable for me. If I see you around I would love to play a game.
I do enjoy lichess a lot. Completely free, but more importantly ad free! Very clean and simple design, plenty of players, not to mention people without an account can easily play, it's not too hard to sign up, and I just love the idea of posting links to private games. Overall very good site.