Chesskit

The Ultimate Chess Web App
chesskit.org
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Chesskit is an open-source chess website to play, view, analyze and review your chess games for free on any device with Stockfish !

Mission

Chesskit aims to offer all the chess related features it can, while being free and open-source. It is designed to be easy to use, fast, and reliable.

Features

• Load and review games from chess.com and lichess.org
• Analysis board with live engine evaluation, custom arrows, evaluation graph, ...
• Moves classification (Brilliant, Great, Good, Mistake, Blunder, ...)
• Chess960 and Puzzles support
• Play against Stockfish at any elo
• Store your games in your browser database

Stack

Built with Next.js, React, Material UI, and TypeScript.

Deployed on AWS with AWS CDK, see it live here.

Running the app in dev mode

At least Node.js 22.11 is required.

Install the dependencies :

npm i

Run the development server :

npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 in the browser to see the app running.

The app will automatically refresh on any source file change.

Lint

Run it with :

npm run lint

Contribute

See contributing for details on how to contribute to the project.

Deploy

To deploy the app, install AWS CLI and authenticate, then run :

npm run deploy

License

Chesskit is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License 3. See copying for details.