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Best Chess Move Calculator

Credits and licenses

This site is made by the team behind ChessHelper (chesshelper.ai) and is built on open-source software and freely licensed images. Thank you to everyone below.

Photos

All photos come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under the licenses shown.

PhotoAuthorLicenseUsed on
Chess pieces close upAaaatuCC BY-SA 4.0Home, comparison guide
Chess (2846141682)Ludovic Bertron from New York City, UsaCC BY 2.0Evaluation guide
DGT 2010 digital chess clockAjepbahCC BY-SA 3.0Improvement guide

Photos may be resized and converted to WebP for faster loading.

Chess pieces

Board pieces in the calculator and diagrams are the cburnett set by Colin M.L. Burnett, licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later. The site icon uses the same white knight.

Stockfish

The calculator runs Stockfish 10, compiled to JavaScript and WebAssembly by the stockfish.js project. Stockfish is free software under the GNU General Public License v3. Source code: github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish and github.com/nmrugg/stockfish.js.

chess.js

Move generation and FEN validation use chess.js by Jeff Hlywa, under the BSD license.

Everything else

Text, diagrams, design and the calculator interface are by the Best Chess Move Calculator team. The site uses system fonts and loads nothing from third-party servers.