About the Author

Who I am

My name is Syed Hamid — most people call me Shaz. I'm an SEO specialist based in Dubai, and I built and maintain this site. If you want to know who is accountable for what appears on Unblocked Chess, it's me. My professional work is at seoexpertindubai.com. I built this site in June 2026 and I have maintained it myself since, from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Why this site exists

Most free chess sites are heavy. They want an account before you can play, they load megabytes of JavaScript, and they bundle in chat, profiles and social feeds that have nothing to do with the game itself.

I wanted the opposite: a chess board that loads instantly, needs no sign-up, and works on a slow connection or an old phone. That's the whole idea. Everything else on the site — the guides, the openings, the endgames, the puzzles — grew out of wanting the site to be genuinely worth visiting rather than a bare board with nothing around it.

How the content here is checked

Since I can't offer you chess credentials, I'll offer you the verification process instead. It's the reason I'm comfortable publishing chess content without being a strong player.

• A chess engine written for this site. The rules engine that runs the board was built specifically for Unblocked Chess and tested against the standard perft suite — the reference move-generation counts used to validate chess programs. It reproduces the published node counts exactly, including the awkward cases: castling rights, en passant, promotion, and pins.
• Every puzzle is machine-verified. No puzzle is published unless the engine confirms the position is legal, the stated mate is forced against every legal defence, and no faster mate exists. Each one was checked twice, by two separately written solvers, and both had to agree.
• Every diagram is generated, not drawn. The board positions on the openings and checkmate pages are produced by playing the listed moves through that engine. The position you see is the position those moves actually produce. Where a page claims a line ends in checkmate, the engine asserted it.
• Historical and factual claims are sourced. Where a page makes a checkable factual claim — dates, governing bodies, tournament records — it was looked up rather than written from memory.

This is deliberately a claim about method rather than about me. You don't have to take my word for any of it: pick a puzzle, play out the solution, and check that the mate is forced.

Corrections

Chess writing is easy to get subtly wrong, and I would much rather be corrected than be wrong in public. Corrections take priority over everything else in the inbox, and factual errors get fixed the same week.

The most useful correction includes the page URL, the specific line that's wrong, and what it should say instead. Send it through the contact page, or email me directly at info@unblockedchess.com — that inbox reaches me, not a support queue.

If you find a puzzle where the stated solution doesn't hold — a defence that survives, or a faster mate — I want to hear about it immediately. That would mean something is wrong with the verification itself, which matters more than any single puzzle.

Editorial independence

Everything here is written and maintained in-house. This site does not accept guest posts, sponsored articles, or paid placements, and no page recommends a product, book, or platform in exchange for payment. Where a third-party site is recommended — Lichess and Chess.com both come up regularly — it is because it is genuinely the best free option, and no arrangement exists with any of them.

The site carries advertising to cover hosting costs. Advertising has no influence on the content, and ads are kept out of the puzzle boards and away from the solutions.