Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform • Hacker News Board

Re: Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

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Post by kzrdude » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 12:21 PM UTC

YetAnotherNick wrote: post #78

erostrate wrote: post #59

Current landscape of chess platform as I understand it: lichess: non-profit, free and open source, community oriented, high quality tech, growing userbase, amazing founder ornicar, much loved by its users and supporters including me. Regular online competitions well attended but doesn't organise major events. Doesn't really do things like video lessons or partnership with streamers as far as I know, probably due to n…

I love lichess but it is hard to argue tech is better than chess.com. Chess.com analysis board is better(although for free membership it is lot worse), they have more number of puzzles, they organize CCC, their anti cheating detection is the most advanced and this all is without coming to UI part in which most feel it to be better or at least more customizable.

Lichess has a snappy chess board, it's a feel you can't help but notice and it is one of the most important technologies for a chess site.

Basically lichess > chess.com > chess24 in the playing surface

Re: Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

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Post by Grakel » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 1:51 PM UTC

koolba wrote: post #43

Grakel wrote: post #15

I had a "Gary Kasparov" "computer" chess board when I was a kid, maybe 1995. On one hand it was cool in that you hard pressed your move into the board with the piece, and it would tell you where to move it's piece. On the other hand it had 64 difficulty levels which were all either extremely easy or impossible to defeat. He's been putting his name on stuff for years.

What was the cut off difficulty level at which point it became impossible?

I can't remember, sorry.

Re: Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform

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Post by alfiedotwtf » Sun, Apr 18, 2021, 12:21 AM UTC

spuz wrote: post #56

alfiedotwtf wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always just used the chess.com app, and have never thought to look for alternatives. Apart from using Open Source, is there any other reason for me to consider switching to lichess?

Free unlimited analysis of your games. Free unlimited puzzles. Basically any reason you might pay for chess.com, lichess has it for free.

Free unlimited puzzles? Oh ok... that’s why I pay the highest subscription level on chess.com. Wow, that’s cool