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Licences & corresponding source

Everything this site runs on in your browser is open-source software. The chess engine is distributed unmodified; its corresponding source is available from the upstream repositories linked below.

Stockfish

Licence
GNU General Public License, version 3 — full text
Copyright
The Stockfish developers (see AUTHORS)
Distributed files
stockfish-18-lite.js / .wasm and stockfish-18-lite-single.js / .wasm — the lite builds from the npm package stockfish 18.0.5, unmodified. The small NNUE evaluation network is embedded in the WASM binary.
Corresponding source
nmrugg/stockfish.js (the WebAssembly build) · official-stockfish/Stockfish (upstream engine)

Stockfish is used only for hints, analysis and play against the engine. Whether your solution is correct is decided by the composer's published solution, not by the engine.

Chess piece images

Asset
The standard SVG chess pieces, as shipped with react-chessboard
Author
Colin M.L. Burnett (Cburnett)
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
Source
Wikimedia Commons · used as-is

chess.js

Version
1.4.0
Licence
BSD 2-Clause License
Copyright
© 2025, Jeff Hlywa
Source
jhlywa/chess.js (licence text in the repository)

react-chessboard

Version
4.7.3
Licence
MIT License
Copyright
© 2022 Ryan Gregory
Source
Clariity/react-chessboard

React

Version
19.2
Licence
MIT License
Copyright
© Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates
Source
facebook/react

Tailwind CSS

Version
4.2
Licence
MIT License
Copyright
© Tailwind Labs, Inc.
Source
tailwindlabs/tailwindcss

Fonts

Baloo 2, Inter and IBM Plex Mono are served by Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. They are not redistributed by this site.

Problem data

Positions, stipulations, solutions and bibliographic data come from YACPDB. The problems themselves are the work of their composers, who are named on every problem page once it has been solved.

This site's own code

The site's own code is © 2026 Ushiyutvj, all rights reserved. It is not covered by any of the licences above. The source can be read on GitHub for reference; copying it or using it in another site or product needs the author's permission.