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I love Lichess (13k+ games and counting).

It is a worthy alternative to chess.com model . There should be room for both.(chessbase.com, ICC, FICS are lesser alternatives now)

That said this low pressure model only works when you are a lean shop(single developer proficient in Scala) AND have millions of users.

Running a lean shop might be an admirable goal but millions of users is not for every project.

There are thousands of worthy open source projects which struggle to give their creator sustenance through donations.

The exceptions are few(Vue comes to mind).

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"(chessbase.com, ICC, FICS are lesser alternatives now)"

I'd say that the main competitor of the two is now Chess24.

It follows the subscription/premium model, taking it even further than Chess.com. Eg. the latter doesn't require you to be a paid user just to export a pgn of your own game - but Chess24 does.

I meant the *former. Chess.com gives you access to the game record at least (even if its analysis functions are limited for free users). Chess24 doesn't

Chess24 also has I think by far the best output of free chess videos on youtube.[0] My two favourite chess channels are chess24 and chess24 en español. e.g. I'm about to watch the Candidates tournament right now on there, with Judit Polgar commentating and live video. The first few days had Magnus Carlsen (!) commentating.

chess24 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkTCNuQ2mGfW6-SpHpaze_g/vid...

en español https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTzRQxC3i7GOT4jtiTq4e0w/vid... (Divis, el Fo, Niño Anton etc)

For years I played online a lot, but I gave up playing (it's too easy to play all night!) and just watch tournaments. Also banter blitz, on the chess24 channels, with e.g. Dubov, Grischuk, So, Radjabov, Karjakin, Nepo etc etc, not to mention Magnus, is amazing—hearing first-hand how the strongest players think. It's not always fun playing chess, but it's always a lot of fun watching! Every second.

[0] St Louis youtube channel, except for major tournaments, which they do very well, is super-lame compared to years ago when Yasser, Ben Finegold etc were regularly doing video lectures.

Just for clarification, are you talking about Vue.js?

Just looked it up and people actually donate thousands of dollars to a JS project?

https://opencollective.com/vuejs

Crazy.

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