# Saylor Innovations — Chess Player Ratings & Stats (Lichess)

> Saylor Innovations — Chess Player Ratings & Stats (Lichess) is a paid API for AI agents from saylorinnovations.com, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Retrieves Lichess chess player ratings, game statistics, and performance data for a given username

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://saylorinnovations.com/api/chess/player/:username?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.001/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-chess-player-ratings-stats-lichess-befdc734
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_SPmG5opF4VH2Psnl2Fts3

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 saylor-innovations-chess-player-ratings-stats-lichess-befdc734
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the Lichess chess stats for the player 'DrNykterstein' — I want to know their ratings across game modes and how many games they've played?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured chess player statistics from Lichess for a specific username, particularly ratings across multiple game modes and game history counts. Prefer this over scraping Lichess directly or using general web search when you need clean, machine-readable player data in a single call.

## Known failure modes

- Username not found on Lichess — returns 404 or empty result
- Lichess API rate limiting or downtime causing upstream errors
- Closed or bot accounts may have limited or different stat structures
- Usernames with special characters may need proper URL encoding

## How this service works

Chess Player Ratings & Stats (Lichess). Lichess chess player profile: title, ratings and game counts per time control, win/loss/draw totals, country, join date and play time.

## Output

Returns Lichess player profile data including ratings for multiple time controls (bullet, blitz, rapid, classical, correspondence), puzzle rating, total games played, win/loss/draw statistics, and account metadata such as username and account creation details.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/saylor-innovations-chess-player-ratings-stats-lichess-befdc734/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from saylorinnovations.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/saylorinnovations.com/llms.txt)