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Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)

Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)

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3 HN recommenders · discussed 2020–2022
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About this video

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 it appears in the archive

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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From the Hacker News discussion

noir_lord · 2020-09 · rec

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]

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oli5679 · 2021-01 · rec

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]

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jka · 2022-07 · rec

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]

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bkishan · 2022-07 · reference

> Can anyone point me to how they handle cheating detection? You can listen to Thibault talk about here [0] 0] [VIDEO]

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