Credits

By the Best Chess Bot team (ChessHelper) · Published November 12, 2026 · Updated November 12, 2026

Thanks to the photographers, designers and researchers whose work appears on this site. The site itself is made by the team behind ChessHelper (chesshelper.ai).

Photos

All photos are of vintage chess computers, from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licenses shown.

• Boris Diplomat electronic chess computer, about 1979. Photo: Joe Haupt from USA, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
• Millennium electronic chess board mid-game ("Chess: Dezidor vs. computer"). Photo: Dezidor, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
• Mephisto Mythos chess computer. Photo: Morn, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Chess pieces

Board diagrams use the RhosGFX piece set by RhosGFX, released under CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication). The site icon is the RhosGFX white knight on our own background.

Chess verification

Chess lines were checked with Stockfish (GPLv3, source code) and the chess.js rules library (BSD license). Neither runs on this site; they were used offline while writing.

Research cited

• McIlroy-Young, Sen, Kleinberg and Anderson, "Aligning Superhuman AI with Human Behavior: Chess as a Model System", KDD 2020. arXiv:2006.01855.
• Tang, Jiao, McIlroy-Young, Kleinberg, Sen and Anderson, "Maia-2: A Unified Model for Human-AI Alignment in Chess", NeurIPS 2024. arXiv:2409.20553.
• Lichess fishnet source code (Stockfish level settings): github.com/lichess-org/fishnet.

Typography

The site uses your device's own monospace and sans-serif fonts. No web fonts are downloaded.