Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters point to it as a good talk on how one person built a major free, open-source chess server with few resources, and on the cheating problem.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Lichess

Topic

building lichess

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• He did it with virtually no resources and kept it as simple as possible - that he did it alone is astounding. He has a good talk about how he did it here : - [VIDEO]

• If anyone is interested in online chess, [LINK] is a really interesting project. It is non-for-profit, avoiding freemium upselling and instead relying on user donations Here is a great talk by the founder [VIDEO] And here is the open-sourced code. [LINK]

• Related to this, there's a really good talk by the founder of lichess that includes an overview of the cheating problem, and the techniques they use to detect and manage it. The relevant section of the video on YouTube is: [VIDEO]