3 HN users recommended this talk3 months2020–2022score 3
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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.
Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis talks at Big Techday 10 in Munich about how Lichess works and how he built it. He covers the project's origins and technical challenges including cheating detection.
“He has a good talk about how he did it here” (HN, 2020)
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 : - [this video]
Founder explains how he built Lichess alone with few resources.
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 [this 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: [this video]
Overview of the cheating problem and detection techniques at Lichess.
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