{/* PUBLISH-TIME FACT RE-VERIFY (re-check the week you ship; Lichess + chess.com features drift, and chess.com pricing is regional): - Lichess "Learn from your mistakes" = free, unlimited, no ads, every game. Exact quote "As usual, this is free for everyone. It's unlimited. There are no ads." / "Available on every game!": VERIFIED 2026-07-09 (lichess.org/blog/WFvLpiQAACMA8e9D). Re-confirm. - Lichess computer analysis = free Stockfish, eval graph + Inaccuracy/Mistake/Blunder + accuracy: VERIFIED 2026-07-09 (lichess.org/faq + blog). - Lichess server "Request a computer analysis" has a PRACTICAL daily request cap (users hit "maximum request today"); NO official per-day number is published; local in-browser Stockfish is uncapped: PARTIALLY VERIFIED 2026-07-09 (lichess forum). Do NOT invent a number. - Lichess "Learn from your mistakes" shows the better move but gives NO plain-language WHY: VERIFIED 2026-07-09 (Lichess's own blog worked example). - chess.com free = 1 full Game Review/day; unlimited = Platinum/Diamond; plain-language "why" on every move = Diamond only: VERIFIED 2026-07-09 (Help Center, via sibling). Re-confirm gating. - Chessvia free-tier scope for /analyze: [VERIFY] the exact non-trial free allowance before quantifying "free"; do NOT claim a specific free quota unverified. */} # Lichess Game Review: Free, Unlimited, and Honest About the Catch You finished a game on Lichess, and now you want to know where it went wrong. Does Lichess even have a "game review" like the one chess.com keeps showing you? Is it free? Is it any good? Short answer, no runaround. Yes, Lichess has a real free game review, and it's genuinely one of the best free tools out there. Its computer analysis runs real Stockfish and gives you an eval graph, an accuracy score, and every Inaccuracy, Mistake, and Blunder tagged. Its "Learn from your mistakes" feature then walks you through each one and asks you to find the better move. In [Lichess's own words](https://lichess.org/@/lichess/blog/learn-from-your-mistakes/WFvLpiQA), that part is "free for everyone," "unlimited," with "no ads." Under the hood, Stockfish's read on each move is double-checked against a database of 2 million master games, so a book move never gets flagged as a mistake. This page covers exactly what you get, how to run it, how it stacks up against chess.com and one AI coach, and the single thing Lichess won't do: tell you, in plain words, why your move actually lost. One boundary first, because it matters. This is about reviewing a game that's already finished. Not live help mid-game. Using an engine or a coach during a rated game is cheating, and we don't build for it. Everything here is what you do after the clock stops. What Lichess game review gives you free Let's give Lichess its due, because it earns it. This is a nonprofit running on donations and volunteers, and it hands you tools that other sites charge for. No ads. No signup wall to analyze. No plugin. Real Stockfish. Here's what the free review actually gives you (verified 2026-07-09, and yeah, re-check it, features move):

Feature	What you get	Cost / limit
"Learn from your mistakes" walk-through	Steps you through each mistake, asks you to find the better move	Free, unlimited, no ads, every game
Computer analysis (server Stockfish)	Eval graph, accuracy %, Inaccuracy / Mistake / Blunder labels	Free, with a practical daily cap on server requests
Local in-browser Stockfish	Live eval, best lines, run it move by move yourself	Free, no cap
Import any game (PGN)	Analyze a game from anywhere, including chess.com	Free via lichess.org/paste
Plain-language reason your move lost	Not offered	Not available at any price

Two honest notes on that table. First, "unlimited" is the exact word Lichess uses for the "Learn from your mistakes" walk-through, and it's true. The underlying server that runs a fresh computer analysis on request, though, has a practical daily rate cap. Push it hard and you'll eventually see a "maximum request today" message. Lichess doesn't publish an official per-day number, and we're not going to invent one. When you hit it, the local in-browser Stockfish keeps going with no cap at all. Second, read the last row again. Lichess shows you the better move. It never tells you, in words, why yours was worse. Hold that thought. How to get a Lichess game review, step by step So you've got a finished game and you want the full review. Here's the actual workflow. It takes about a minute.

**Open the game, or paste its PGN.** If you played it on Lichess, just open it. If it's from chess.com or anywhere else, copy the game's PGN and drop it into lichess.org/paste. Same review either way.

**Open the analysis board.** Click the analysis / microscope icon on the game. This is where the engine lives.

**Request a computer analysis.** Below the board, click "Request a computer analysis." Lichess runs Stockfish over the whole game and marks every Inaccuracy, Mistake, and Blunder, plus your accuracy score and the eval graph.

**Learn from your mistakes.** Below the move list, click "Learn from your mistakes." Lichess replays each error. It asks you to find the better move yourself first, then reveals what Stockfish preferred.

That's the whole thing. Import, analyze, walk the mistakes. If the "Request a computer analysis" button stalls, you've probably hit the daily server cap. Switch on the local Stockfish toggle on the analysis board and it'll evaluate right in your browser instead, no waiting. Want the deeper version of this workflow across tools? We wrote a separate guide on [how to analyze your chess games](https://chessvia.ai/blog/how-to-analyze-chess-games). Lichess vs chess.com vs Chessvia game review This is the comparison the search brought you here for. Each of these is free, or has a real free tier, and each is good at a different job. No shading in our favor, and yeah, one of them is ours. We'll flag it.

Tool	Free?	Unlimited free?	Structured review UI?	Explains why in words?	Two-way follow-up?	Plays with you?
Lichess	Yes	Yes (walk-through)	No (built via extensions)	No	No	No
chess.com Game Review	Yes (1/day)	No (Platinum/Diamond)	Yes	Diamond only	No	Yes (premium coach)
Chessvia	Yes	Free review at /analyze	Yes	Yes (plain language)	Yes (text)	Yes (/play)

Let me translate, because a table only goes so far. Want the best free raw engine? Lichess. Full stop. Unlimited Stockfish, best lines, eval graph, "Learn from your mistakes," all free because it's a nonprofit. We'll concede "best free raw engine" outright and not pretend otherwise. What Lichess doesn't have is that one-screen "[Game Review](https://www.chess.com/news/view/chesscom-releases-new-game-review)" layout chess.com made famous. People want it so badly they've built browser extensions to bolt a chess.com-style review onto Lichess. And it still won't say why in words. chess.com is the incumbent you might be routing around. Its Game Review is the polished one most people picture, and even a free account gets one full review a day. But the second review is a wait-till-tomorrow, and the plain-language coach explanations on every move sit behind Diamond. Curious how to squeeze the most out of chess.com's free tier? We covered that in [how to review a chess.com game for free](https://chessvia.ai/blog/chess-com-game-review-free). Which leaves the row that's ours. Nobody above gives you a free review that explains, in plain language, why a move lost, and then lets you ask a follow-up. That's the gap, and it's the same gap on Lichess as on chess.com free: you get the what, never the why. The one thing Lichess won't tell you: why the move lost Here's the exact moment it bites. Lichess flags move 23 as a Blunder. It shows the eval falling off a cliff. "Learn from your mistakes" then asks you to find the better move, and eventually reveals it. Great. But why was your move bad? What did you actually miss? Lichess doesn't say. It's not a knock on Lichess, it's just not what the tool does. It classifies the move and points at the better one. It gives no reasoning about what your move hung, what plan it abandoned, or what your opponent was threatening. Lichess's own "Learn from your mistakes" write-up shows this in its worked example: you find the better move, it confirms it, and it stops there. No plain-language why. (If you want the deeper version of that question on its own, we dug into [what actually makes a move a blunder](https://chessvia.ai/blog/why-was-that-a-blunder).) So picture the difference. On Lichess you see: "Blunder. Better was g6." On a review built to explain, you'd read something closer to this: "This dropped the game. You played Nf6 to hit the queen on h5, but f7 was defended only by your king, and White's queen on h5 and bishop on c4 were both already aimed at it. That let Qxf7 land, and it's checkmate on the spot, because the king can't take a defended queen and has nowhere to run. The saving move was g6 or Qe7, covering f7 before the threat arrived." That's what Chessvia's free review at /analyze is built to do. You import a finished game, and instead of just grading each move, it tells you the reason in words you can read. Then, and this is the part an eval bar can't touch, you can ask a follow-up. "Why not the other rook?" It answers, on the same position. One honest note on how that works, because we won't oversell it. The coach's read is grounded in a real engine. It checks the position against Stockfish first, then explains, rather than making up a reason from memory. Is it right every single time? No. No honest tool is, and we track how often it stays grounded instead of pretending it's perfect. Still, when you want to know why a move failed, a reason in plain words beats a number you have to decode yourself. Is Lichess game review accurate and good enough? Fair question, and the honest answer isn't a pitch. Yes, Lichess's analysis is accurate. It's real Stockfish, the same engine strength that beats every human alive, and the eval numbers and the Inaccuracy/Mistake/Blunder labels are trustworthy. For most improving players, it's genuinely good enough to find your mistakes and drill the better move. We use it ourselves. So what's the catch, if the engine is accurate? The gap isn't accuracy. It's explanation. Lichess tells you what went wrong and shows you the fix, but not why in words. Can you look at "Blunder, better was g6" and reconstruct the reason on your own? Then Lichess is all you need, free, forever. But if the same mistake keeps coming back because the engine never spelled out the pattern, a plain-language why is what closes that loop. And the practical footnote, since people search for it: if your Lichess game review "isn't working," it's almost always the daily server cap. The "Request a computer analysis" queue has a practical per-day limit, and once you hit it, new server requests stall. Flip on local Stockfish in the analysis board and it evaluates in your browser with no cap. Same engine, no waiting. Frequently Asked Questions Is Lichess game review free? Yes, and it stays free. Lichess's "Learn from your mistakes" walk-through is, in its own words, "free for everyone," "unlimited," with "no ads," available on every game. Its computer analysis runs real Stockfish for free too. Lichess is an open-source nonprofit, so the whole site costs nothing. The only practical limit is a daily cap on server analysis requests, and local in-browser Stockfish has no cap at all. Does Lichess have game review like chess.com? Sort of, but not the same one-screen layout. Lichess gives you the same core: a full Stockfish computer analysis, an eval graph, accuracy, and Inaccuracy/Mistake/Blunder labels, plus a "Learn from your mistakes" walk-through. What it doesn't have natively is chess.com's polished "Game Review" screen, and people want that look so much they've built browser extensions to add it. Lichess's version is free and unlimited, where chess.com's is one a day on a free account. Is Lichess analysis accurate? Yes. Lichess runs real Stockfish, the same engine family that outclasses every human player, so the evaluations and the move labels are accurate and trustworthy. For finding your mistakes and studying the better move, it's genuinely good enough for almost any improving player. The limit isn't accuracy. It's that Lichess shows you what went wrong, not why in plain words. How do I review a game on Lichess? Open the finished game, or paste its PGN at lichess.org/paste if it's from somewhere else. Open the analysis board, click "Request a computer analysis" below the board, then click "Learn from your mistakes" below the moves. Lichess walks you through each mistake and asks you to find the better move. You can import a chess.com game the same way. Does Lichess explain why my move was bad? No. Lichess tells you a move was a Blunder and shows you the better move, but it stops there. It won't say why in words: what your move hung, what plan it missed, what your opponent threatened. That's the one gap in an otherwise excellent free tool. Chessvia's free review at /analyze is built to explain that in plain language, checked against a real engine first, and you can ask it a follow-up. Why is my Lichess computer analysis not working? Almost always the daily server cap. The "Request a computer analysis" feature has a practical per-day request limit, and once you've hit it you'll see a "maximum request today" style message and new requests stall. Lichess doesn't publish an exact number. The fix is the local in-browser Stockfish toggle on the analysis board, which isn't rate-limited, so you can keep evaluating with no wait. Lichess game review is a genuinely great free tool. Real Stockfish, unlimited, no ads, no catch on the analysis itself. The only thing it leaves out is the reason: it shows you the better move, never why yours lost. Import one of your own games, find the move that dropped it, and get the why, in plain words. For more on how the coach reasons through a move instead of just grading it, read [how Chessvia's AI coach explains the why behind every move](https://chessvia.ai/blog/chessvia-ai-chess-helper). Free 7-day trial, no credit card required. Voice coaching is in early access. {/* FAQ Schema */}