Lichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)
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.
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.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2020 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Recommends noir_lord · 2020-09 · on “Chess is taking over the online video game streaming world and it will change”
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]
Recommends oli5679 · 2021-01 · on “A bit on scaling chess.com's database”
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]
Recommends jka · 2022-07 · on “Irwin – the protector of Lichess from all chess players villainous”
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]
Cites bkishan · 2022-07 · on “Lichess: The free and open source chess server”
> Can anyone point me to how they handle cheating detection? You can listen to Thibault talk about here [0] 0] [this video]