[HN Gopher] Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess plat...
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       Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform
        
       Author : prostoalex
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2021-04-15 15:17 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (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.
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       | 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.
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       | I'm pretty happy he is making a platform like this, it's bound to
       | be excellent.
        
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