lichess-org/fishnet
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Distributed Stockfish analysis for lichess.org
17 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 4 stories, 13 comments · first 2020-11-10 · latest 2025-03-11
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I run fishnet[0] to help Lichess[1] analyze chess games. [0]: https://github.com/lichess-org/fishnet [1]: https://lichess.org/
comment by n3t · 2025-03-11 · in Ask HN: I have excess compute, how can I contribute positively to the Internet? -
…What are you basing this on? To me it seems like difficulty is set by limiting search depth/time: https://github.com/lichess-org/fishnet/blob/master/src/api.r...
comment by hwillis · 2024-01-07 · in Chess-GPT's Internal World Model -
I run fishnet[0] to help Lichess[1] analyze chess games. [0]: https://github.com/lichess-org/fishnet [1]: https://lichess.org/
comment by n3t · 2023-12-08 · in Ask HN: What fuel for my data furnace? -
…for Lichess.[0] It’ll run Stockfish analyses for Lichess.org users who click on Analyse Game. [0] https://github.com/lichess-org/fishnet
comment by ycombinete · 2023-07-17 · in Ash HN: How can I make my idle CPU time useful to others? -
Keeping a template image containing enough code to start fishnet ( https://github.com/lichess-org/fishnet/ ) so that we can boot up quick and (relatively) cheap fishnet instances should the need arise.
comment by lukhas · 2022-11-10 · in Taking Lichess to the next level -
…has a distributed network for analyzing chess games with Stockfish: https://lichess.org/get-fishnet https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet There's also the Mersenne prime search which passed some milestones recently:…
comment by rococode · 2022-01-17 · in Ask HN: What are some worthy non-cryto uses of excess home compute nowadays? -
…"request a computer analysis", the computation is done by fishnet [1] on volunteers' hardware. [1] https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet
comment by agalunar · 2022-01-16 · in It takes $420k per year to run Lichess -
Computer analyses are done on a distributed network called fishnet[0], not locally 0: https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet
comment by kmm · 2022-01-16 · in It takes $420k per year to run Lichess -
TBH I don't know if they feature any kind of protection against that. You can check/ask here https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet/issues
comment by giords · 2021-12-16 · in Chess.com vs. Lichess -
…Stockfish compiled to WASM which is decently fast. If you're not an IM/GM, it's "good enough" [0] https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet
comment by ArchieMaclean · 2021-12-15 · in Chess.com vs. Lichess -
You can also run Fishnet (which use stockfish) to provide analysis for Lichess.org :) https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet
comment by maeln · 2021-07-05 · in Stockfish 14 -
…core of my old i3-5100. It’s easy to setup, and I like knowing that it’s chugging away 24/7. [0] https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet
comment by ycombinete · 2021-04-23 · in Why Lichess will always be free -
They also offer server-side rendering as well (provided by volunteers through fishnet): https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet
comment by maxfan8 · 2021-01-12 · in A bit on scaling chess.com's database