I am in a big worry about stockfish rising costs used on this site I want Thibault to consider in near time to think about to switching to other chess engine little weaker but maybe a lot cheaper like From the top Komodo ,Houdini,Fire and maybe other from top 10 in world one of them because when this site will cost over $1500 monthly mostly becouse of stockfish it can become hard for donators to donate monthly that sum of money .This is only suggestion to THIBAULT I am worried costs of this site rised 40-50% in last 3-4 months I think it's time to do something about it .I know that this could be hard for many reasons but I fear it will benecessity in near futere take action before it's not to late.
OSS FTW. o/
It seems like costs should go down over time. Once stockfish analyzes a position, it never has to do so again, right? Or are we not saving the analyses? Because that would be hugely wasteful.
It's not stockfish that costs money, stockfish is FOSS and free. It's hosting stockfish instances, I think, that costs money. And that would cost the same no matter what chess engine you were using, and even more in the case of commercial engines.
Right, the cost reflects the cpu required for stockfish to analyze the board positions. It would be roughly equivalent regardless of engine. There may be optimizations though in terms of hardware, for example RAM is not a big deal for stockfish so for example an AWS high CPU instance would perform well, but a high memory / low cpu instance not so much.
I understand your worries.
But since I discovered lichess last may I have the feeling, that Thibault exactly knows what he is doing.
And I simply hope, that the growing player base (community) helps him to manage higher costs for this amazing platform. Seems to work quite well these days... ;-)
But since I discovered lichess last may I have the feeling, that Thibault exactly knows what he is doing.
And I simply hope, that the growing player base (community) helps him to manage higher costs for this amazing platform. Seems to work quite well these days... ;-)
There are no rising costs of stockfish, it's Free Software.
Thibault could give an option (enabled by default) to use your browser to help analyze other people's games. The way it could work is, when you press "analyze" the moves of the game are split up and sent to different lichess users, and their browsers do analysis of the few moves they were sent. Then the results from the different users get combined to give you the combined results.
That way it would be lichess users who do the analysis instead of a central lichess server, thus distributing the cost.
It would have to be reasonable about CPU usage and it should be easily throttled or disabled at the user's choice, otherwise it could drive people away from lichess.
That way it would be lichess users who do the analysis instead of a central lichess server, thus distributing the cost.
It would have to be reasonable about CPU usage and it should be easily throttled or disabled at the user's choice, otherwise it could drive people away from lichess.
Yes i see I understood that wrong ok now I know thanks and I also have hope that this site will countinue to getting better and better but I would like to be here more players just in case searching a game on phone on my level of play still takes to long as If there is to littleplayers here still.
Try donating...
I did, it made me feel smug and self-satisfied, as if I'd single-handedly saved chess :D
I did, it made me feel smug and self-satisfied, as if I'd single-handedly saved chess :D
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