Open Source Chess

Technical Discussion
#1

I got into a conversation around open source chess. And apparently there is a really big open source platform at lichess.org. They publish their server costs and I think it would be an interesting design challenge to think about how this would work and what costs would be like if there was a holochain based chess app where say, 50% of the load was hosted with people playing chess natively on their computers (just as a fully p2p holochain app) and 50% playing on hosted instances. What do you think? I would store my chess moves plus 10 others or so. Pretty minimal data. It seems like there is a bunch of analysis done and stuff like that too. not sure how that would be affected…

Here’s what it costs the community to run now:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSkHLJKJkb0ZuI4/view

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#2

@ViktorZaunders really interesting - so potentially holochain can save them 50-70K a year. Wonder how other costs might vary?

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#3

What kind of costs are you thinking of?

#4

These kind of things

420K annually
70K servers
5K services (including cloud it appears)
350K salaries and operating costs

Games per day 5,200,000
Running cost
Per day $1,148.95
Per hour $47.87
Per minute $0.80
Per game $0.00022
Games per $ 4,526

#5

Will be interesting to run holochain/holo chess and see difference in cost basis - amazing to have this data

#6

Right, would be interesting to see how much of salaries are server maintenance and what upkeep will look like on holochain/holo.