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
| Photo | Author | License | Used on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schachfiguren, Ausreißer (Wikimedia Commons) | Dietmar Rabich | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Home, Choosing the next move by rating |
| Chess game (Wikimedia Commons) | Wilfredor | CC0 | Best next moves in popular openings |
| Chess pieces, pawn and rook (Wikimedia Commons) | Garry Knight | CC BY-SA 2.0 | When 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.