Hi! My name is John, and I'm the creator and lead developer of ChessHair. Thanks for stopping by!

You might be asking yourself, "Why is this website called ChessHair?" The answer is that I thought it was funny and memorable.

I've been working as a software engineer since 2014, and I got into chess back in 2023. What better way to combine these passions than by creating a tool to provide fast, reliable cloud engine analysis directly inside Lichess?

I originally started building this for myself because I was tired of burning through battery when running stockfish on my phone, and I quickly realized it could be useful for a lot of people.

If you're reading this, you're among the very first people to try this out (or consider trying it). Thank you very much for being here! I genuinely appreciate it.

Although ChessHair is in its infancy right now, I have a lot of ideas for it that I'm excited about and really look forward to working on this project long term. One of the things I'm most excited about is listening to you, the people actually using it, to see what you want out of a service like this. There are lots of features I've thought about adding, but before I start working on them I want to validate that people would actually want them. If you're signed in you can take a look at the Roadmap page to see what's planned, submit ideas of your own, and vote on other people's submissions.

If you're interested in being a part of this vision with me, I would love it if you would stop by the Discord server I've set up for this project.

I look forward to hearing from you and building this together!

A huge thank you to Lichess for being so awesome in so many ways. Please consider becoming a Lichess patron if you're not already!
Also a huge thank you to Stockfish and all of the contributors: https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish