diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index c9b38f0d05..ea5a1427c5 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 [submodule "public/vendor/tagmanager"]
 	path = public/vendor/tagmanager
 	url = https://github.com/max-favilli/tagmanager
-[submodule "ui/chessli"]
-	path = ui/chessli
-	url = https://github.com/ornicar/chess.js
 [submodule "public/vendor/moment"]
 	path = public/vendor/moment
 	url = https://github.com/moment/moment
diff --git a/ui/chessli b/ui/chessli
deleted file mode 160000
index ac936ca8f1..0000000000
--- a/ui/chessli
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit ac936ca8f119124bf6259dde36e24e1b493bf5a1