So I've been playing blitz on Lichess for about two years. Hit 1,400 and just... stared at the number. Is that good? Bad? What does it even mean compared to someone on Chess.com?
That frustration turned into a side project. I'm a high school developer based in South Korea, and I built **ChessLadder** — a platform that takes your rating and maps it to a proper tier system (Pawn → Knight → Bishop → Rook → Queen → King, 5 sub-tiers each) so the number actually means something.
The features I'm most proud of:
**Activity heatmap.** GitHub-style, 365 days. "April 10 · 7 games: 4W 2L 1D". You'll see patterns in your play you never noticed.
**Opening stats.** Win rate by first move. Found out I win way more with d4 but kept defaulting to e4 for two years.
**White vs Black split.** Separate W/L/D per color. Turns out I'm significantly worse with black. Had no idea.
**Player card export.** PNG card with sparkline, streak, stats. Built it for Discord flexing. You know how it is.
Rating history chart overlays the tier thresholds. Bullet / Blitz / Rapid / Classical all independent. Both platforms fully supported.
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Now look — Lichess users found this first. 140 of them. Chess.com is sitting at 10.
I don't think that's a Chess.com problem. I think Chess.com players just haven't shown up yet. The whole platform works for Chess.com accounts — tiers, heatmap, stats, card export, all of it. Chess.com ratings just don't get as much love around here and honestly that feels like a gap worth fixing.
So. Are you going to let Lichess run the scoreboard?
Chess.com players — you have 10 users on my platform. Lichess has 140. Just saying.
site is
# chessladder.org