Lichess is the product of volunteer work. Together, we're building the best chess website ever!

Special thanks to ...

thibault for creating and tirelessly maintaining Lichess.

Clarkey for

• the cheat detection engine
• the puzzle creator
• the opening trainer generator
• creating 3D piece sets
• moderation work, mockups, communication, and much more

Happy0 for

• the Antichess variant
• the Atomic variant

Hellball for

• contributing to the wiki and translations
• writing the translation contexts
• moderation work, communication, testing, and much more

veloce and freefal for

• the mobile application

revoof for

• the Racing Kings variant
• the opening explorer, tablebase server and stockfish.wasm
• fishnet distributed Stockfish computing
• chess game compression

lukhas and Bearstech for

• the invaluable sysadmin expertise
• the monitoring lichess sorely needed

isaacly for

• advanced lag compensation
• move time compression

Big kudos to ...

• All the moderators who spend time keeping the site enjoyable. You rock!
• Everyone contributing to the project on GitHub, regularly or sporadically, bug reporters and reviewers
• psuter for the Swiss tournaments (no longer here since the rewrite of the tournament module, but they graced lichess for years) and other valuable code contributions
• Toadofsky and ubdip for teaching Stockfish how to play chess variants
• MoralIntentions for running a new feature popularity bracket and some incredible feats
• Pirouetti for the new chess piece set and boards
• ChessWhiz for the streams (he was the first and the one to request it), improvements to the coordinate trainer and carefully balancing Horde chess
• AdmiralA for the always epic #DailyPuzzle tweet (no longer doing it, but it was good while it lasted)
• Renaud Bressand for the gorgeous mobile app and website menu designs
• goldilocks, bosspotato, GnarlyGoat, Hellball and others for compiling, reviewing and categorising tons of chess videos for the lichess free video library
• Lemuel_Gulliver and Hellball for the list of tournament names based on notable chess personalities.
• arex for setting up getublockorigin.com and most of the chess content over on /practice
• Freepik from flaticon.com, for some CC BY 3.0 licensed icons
• game-icons.net authors
• all the volunteer translators who help us offer lichess in over 80 languages
• Developers of the Stockfish and Sunsetter chess engines
• Ronald de Man and Bojun Guo, for sharing Syzygy endgame tablebases with the world
• sadsnake1 for the Lichess logo and his piece set and board designs
• IP2Location for providing access to their proxy database

... and all the players!

Please let us know, if we have forgotten you!