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by Tenoke 1610 days ago
> providing stockfish analysis for every user for free

Edit: As discussed in another subthread most of the analysis happens in the user's browser, the rest is run via a fishnet by volunteers.

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While we're in the topic of impressive technological achievements, it's probably also worth mentioning how crazy it is that just a few decades ago, Deep Blue running on a supercomputer was the state of art in chess analysis, and nowadays we can just casually say, oh lichess runs stockfish on users' phones via wasm to cut on server costs.