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Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends 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.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “He has a good talk about how he did it here”

    Founder explains how he built Lichess alone with few resources.

    noir_lord, 2020-09 · Recommendation · in “Chess is taking over the online video game streaming world and it will change”

  2. “Here is a great talk by the founder”

    Talk by the Lichess founder on the project.

    oli5679, 2021-01 · Recommendation · in “A bit on scaling chess.com's database”

  3. “there's a really good talk by the founder of lichess that includes an overview of the cheating problem”

    Overview of the cheating problem and detection techniques at Lichess.

    jka, 2022-07 · Recommendation · in “Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: lichess, chess, open source, cheat detection, scala, solo developer

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