# Thank you!

## To Lichess

Almost all of this was built by someone else. [Lichess](https://lichess.org) has
been developed and given away for free since 2010, and it is the reason a site
like this one can exist at all. If you value what you find here, the honest
thing to do is [support them](https://lichess.org/patron) — they carry the cost
of the work we inherited.

Thank you in particular to Thibault Duplessis, who started lila, and to the
hundreds of contributors and translators who have worked on it since.

## To the projects underneath

- [Stockfish](https://stockfishchess.org/) — the engine that analyses your games
  and plays against you
- [Scala](https://scala-lang.org/), [Play](https://www.playframework.com/) and
  [MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/) — what the server is built out of
- [chessground](https://github.com/lichess-org/chessground) — the board you drag
  pieces on

## To the piece and board artists

The piece sets and board textures come from the Lichess project, contributed by
artists who released them freely. Their names are listed in the
[repository](https://github.com/daviddokrao/lila/tree/master/public/piece).

## To you

For playing here while it is still rough.