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22 Sept 2025
HollowLeaf
Building Chess Solitaire
Exploring the design, analysis, and results behind my latest chess application
14 Jan 2025
NishAz
Chess960/Freestyle Positions in Chess From Position!
https://chessfromposition.com now supports Chess960 positions!
8 Jun 2024
jk_182
Norway Chess 2024 in Graphs
I always enjoy taking a closer look at top tournaments, but going through each game takes a lot of t…
7 Oct 2024
CyberShredder
Open-Source Chess Software List
Some interesting open-source software & websites
18 Sept 2021
Toadofsky
Why Develop Free Software?
Writing code is work, so why do it, and why share it with others?
29 Apr 2025
TotalNoob69
How to visualize K-MAPS analysis
... a LiChess Tools use case miniature
18 Apr 2026
lisperer
Visualise your chess studies with chesstree
I am working on a chess study/pgn visualiser and I am looking for some early feedback
27 Dec 2025
dirkster99
Making a Discovery in Chess
Discovered Check puzzle theme, related patterns, and the lichess.org puzzle pipeline
3 May 2025
TotalNoob69
A nice trick in the Zukertort or Hungarian openings (bonus in the Benko Gambit)
It's almost completely unknown and unintuitive and very likely to happen on the board especially at …
15 Sept 2021
user370417
The Lichess logo, animated
aka the Lichess logo loading loop
25 Apr 2025
ChessMonitor_Stats
Introducing ChessMonitor
I've been working on ChessMonitor for more than four years and finally wanted to introduce it to Lic…
5 Jun 2023
MagoGG
Stockfish level and its rating
The meaning of stockfish levels on lichess 1-8
26 Sept 2025
jk_182
Quantifying Piece Activity
A second attempt to calculate the activity of a chess position
20 Oct 2024
andreagobbez
[New Bot enters high ranks!] Zoe_ChessBot
The journey to become one of the strongest users bot is just begun..!
20 Jan 2025
HollowLeaf
Creating Your Own Stockfish in the Cloud
Setting up Stockfish in the cloud can be a game-changer for chess enthusiasts and professionals alik…
16 Mar 2024
Peng_Dehuai1898-1974
Lichess, revert the terrible changes to the studies.
Lichess just made a Windows 8 move with the studies. Let's get them to revert those changes. Use #re…
10 Jan 2025
NM
ZugAddict
I made a YouTube channel for Lichess TV Highlights
Introducting OffThePressChess, the Royal Game's answer to SportsCenter
29 Aug 2024
jk_182
Sharpness of Games and Players
I've written quite a bit about sharpness in the past. But until now I've mostly looked at the sharpn…
2 Mar 2026
Fingolfin7
A Harness for LLM Chess: Board State and Context Handling
LLMs are terrible at chess — but mostly because we’re prompting them badly. I built a system that gi…
2 Jul 2025
LKama
Plotting the performance of openings VS Elo with an Open Source Tool.
The goal is to see how an opening's stats change across different Elo ratings. The charts visualize …
5 Feb 2026
Noobmasterplayer123
Extended Ease Metric (1)
Integrating Stockfish & ChessDB into Ease Metric
11 Jan 2025
HollowLeaf
Chess Web Programming: Part Nine: Chessground
Exploring Lichess Chessground
19 Apr 2025
TotalNoob69
Hiding chat and regaining space with LiChess Tools
... a feature miniature
7 Apr 2026
Noobmasterplayer123
Human Estimate Eval Function
If a human or human-like model assessed this position, what centipawn score would reflect their perc…
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