The Chess World Isn’t Ready for a Cheating Scandal

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/chess

Our great sponsors
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
  • irwin

    irwin - the protector of lichess from all chess players villainous

  • Lichess is fully open-source and thus is their cheat-detection. They use https://github.com/clarkerubber/irwin which is a statistical model (tensorflow AI). This basically detects things such as using too much time on trivial moves such as forced captures, or other out-of-character moves.

  • lila

    ♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞

  • But they also use other things (see https://github.com/lichess-org/lila/blob/1ef025b9a20b95956204c16ec2096a5e91ecea44/modules/evaluation/src/main/PlayerAssessment.scala) such as browser or tab going out of focus (changing tabs, going to another program)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

    WorkOS logo
NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts