# Lichess Daily Chess Puzzle

> Lichess Daily Chess Puzzle is a paid API for AI agents from chess402.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns today's Lichess daily puzzle including source game, themes, initial FEN position, solution moves, and puzzle rating.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://chess402.vercel.app/api/puzzle/daily
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/chess402-vercel-app-cf9b63c9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_T17G52xnf6lz7vM-6Mp14

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability chess402-vercel-app-cf9b63c9 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's today's Lichess daily chess puzzle? Show me the starting position, the correct solution moves, the themes it covers, and the puzzle's rating.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need today's specific Lichess daily puzzle with full metadata including the FEN starting position, solution line, themes, and rating in a single call. Prefer this over scraping Lichess directly or using other chess puzzle APIs when you need structured daily puzzle data with Lichess provenance.

## Known failure modes

- Lichess API unavailable — upstream timeout or 503
- No daily puzzle set for today — rare edge case returning empty or null
- Network error reaching chess402.vercel.app — 500 or timeout
- x402 payment failure — insufficient USDC balance or payment not processed

## How this service works

Today's Lichess daily puzzle: source game, themes, initial position, solution moves, and rating.

## Output

Returns the daily Lichess puzzle with its ID, initial FEN board position, ordered solution moves in UCI notation, thematic tags (e.g. 'fork', 'mateIn2'), puzzle rating, and a link to the source game.

## Example request

```json
{}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "properties": {},
     "description": "No parameters required. Send `{}` or an empty body.",
     "additionalProperties": false
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
     "required": [
      "game",
      "puzzle"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "game": {
       "type": "object",
       "required": [
        "id"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "id": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "Lichess game id the puzzle was extracted from."
        },
        "pgn": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "PGN of the game up to the puzzle position."
        }
       },
       "description": "Source game for the puzzle.",
       "additionalProperties": {}
      },
      "puzzle": {
       "type": "object",
       "required": [
        "id",
        "rating",
        "solution"
       ],
       "properties": {
        "id": {
         "type": "string",
         "description": "Puzzle id."
        },
        "rating": {
         "type": "integer",
         "maximum": 9007199254740991,
         "minimum": -9007199254740991,
         "description": "Puzzle difficulty rating."
        },
        "themes": {
         "type": "array",
         "items": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "description": "Tactical themes labeled on this puzzle."
        },
        "solution": {
         "type": "array",
         "items": {
          "type": "string"
         },
         "description": "Sequence of UCI moves that solve the puzzle."
        },
        "initialPly": {
         "type": "integer",
         "maximum": 9007199254740991,
      
… (truncated)
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "game": {
   "id": "exampleId"
  },
  "puzzle": {
   "id": "exampleId",
   "rating": 1500,
   "themes": [
    "mateIn2",
    "short"
   ],
   "solution": [
    "e2e4",
    "e7e5"
   ]
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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