[HN Gopher] Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess plat... ___________________________________________________________________ Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform Author : prostoalex Score : 16 points Date : 2021-04-15 15:17 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (techcrunch.com) (TXT) w3m dump (techcrunch.com) | mustafa_pasi wrote: | The community first chess platform is lichess, which doesn't even | get a mention because it is non-profit. This thing sounds like | some botched together platform with Kasparov's name attached to | add legitimacy. It will 100% fail. | lasfter wrote: | 100%. Lichess is an astounding achievement of FOSS and I wish | it got more love in general. I can't think of any other open- | source website with as much traffic and with as much complex | functionality. | young_unixer wrote: | The idea of a domain-specific Udemy with appropiate instructor | filtering has been done 100 times already. | | Which doesn't mean it's going to fail. It just means that there's | nothing new about it. It's all about good execution and | management, and nothing about innovation. | torgian wrote: | I read about this man and his chess stuff religiously when I was | a kid. Loved it and it's pet of what got me into chess. | | I'm pretty happy he is making a platform like this, it's bound to | be excellent. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-16 22:00 UTC)