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Credits and licenses

Best Next Move Chess is made by the team behind ChessHelper (chesshelper.ai), and it is built on the work of photographers, designers and open-source developers. Thank you to all of them.

Photos

PhotoAuthorLicenseUsed on
Schachfiguren, Ausreißer (Wikimedia Commons)Dietmar RabichCC BY-SA 4.0Home, Choosing the next move by rating
Chess game (Wikimedia Commons)WilfredorCC0Best next moves in popular openings
Chess pieces, pawn and rook (Wikimedia Commons)Garry KnightCC BY-SA 2.0When the engine move is wrong for you

The photos are shown resized and converted to WebP; they are otherwise unchanged.

Chess pieces

The pieces on the finder board and in every diagram are the Chessnut set by Alexis Luengas, used under the Apache License 2.0. Source: github.com/LexLuengas/chessnut-pieces. The site icon uses the Chessnut white queen.

Chess engine

The next-move finder runs Stockfish 10, compiled to JavaScript and WebAssembly as stockfish.js by Nathan Rugg. Stockfish is free software under the GNU General Public License v3: read the license text and get the source code. Stockfish is copyright T. Romstad, M. Costalba, J. Kiiski, G. Linscott and other contributors.

Move validation

chess.js by Jeff Hlywa handles move legality and notation in the finder, under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Fonts

The site uses the fonts already installed on your device, so no font files are downloaded.