Realy,i play on tv.lichess open tv but chess.com not !!!!!!
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I say, lichess better
Thanks for nice stats!
I guess that the number of games played might be influenced by zerking, which allows to play more games within the same time. (By the way, berserked blitz is usually bullet.)
It would also be nice to know what verified GM accounts are. Accounts with a visible GM title? My anon account is not considered verified in chess.com terminology, although it displays the title.
Those are details, yet they might have some relevance.
As an open source developer who also has to do corporate work to pay the bills, I'll be the first to recognise that the difference in software quality is night and day. Why? In one phrase, incentive structure.
Corporate software generally have to work to a deadline, and therefore is very often content with "good enough". Obviously, over time lots of "good enough"s pile up and turn the whole thing into shit. The technical term is "tech debt", but people are so desensitised to it these days that it no longer incurs any sense of importance. So excuse my French. Also doesn't help when you got management breathing down your neck pushing you to add AI (or <INSERT BUZZWORD>) rubbish into your product for no good reason.
Whereas FOSS generally has the option to say "we won't implement this feature now because we lack the infrastructure for it" or "we won't ever do it because the idea is trash". A popularly-demanded feature may be put on hold for a few years or thrown out entirely, but it's great for the health of the codebase because slop in various forms doesn't make its way in.
Greatest example of this is really just Linux vs Windows. What's funny is that many games written for Windows actually run better on Linux nowadays, even though it has to use Proton as a translation/emulation layer. Yeah, POSIX API is just that much better. Not to mention the well-known fact that Linux dominates the server market. Turns out reliable software is often faster too, who would have thunk it.
@cyqsimon said in #17:
> As an open source developer who also has to do corporate work to pay the bills, I'll be the first to recognise that the difference in software quality is night and day. Why? In one phrase, incentive structure.
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> Corporate software generally have to work to a deadline, and therefore is very often content with "good enough". Obviously, over time lots of "good enough"s pile up and turn the whole thing into shit. The technical term is "tech debt", but people are so desensitised to it these days that it no longer incurs any sense of importance. So excuse my French. Also doesn't help when you got management breathing down your neck pushing you to add AI (or <INSERT BUZZWORD>) rubbish into your product for no good reason.
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> Whereas FOSS generally has the option to say "we won't implement this feature now because we lack the infrastructure for it" or "we won't ever do it because the idea is trash". A popularly-demanded feature may be put on hold for a few years or thrown out entirely, but it's great for the health of the codebase because slop in various forms doesn't make its way in.
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> Greatest example of this is really just Linux vs Windows. What's funny is that many games written for Windows actually run better on Linux nowadays, even though it has to use Proton as a translation/emulation layer. Yeah, POSIX API is just that much better. Not to mention the well-known fact that Linux dominates the server market. Turns out reliable software is often faster too, who would have thunk it.
@kumuDan said in #15:
> I say, lichess better
@ILikeBlitz said in #16:
> Thanks for nice stats!
> I guess that the number of games played might be influenced by zerking, which allows to play more games within the same time. (By the way, berserked blitz is usually bullet.)
> It would also be nice to know what verified GM accounts are. Accounts with a visible GM title? My anon account is not considered verified in chess.com terminology, although it displays the title.
> Those are details, yet they might have some relevance.
@ILikeBlitz said in #16:
> It would also be nice to know what verified GM accounts are. Accounts with a visible GM title? My anon account is not considered verified in chess.com terminology, although it displays the title.
Yes, all accounts with a visible GM title are considered verified in these numbers.
For the "speed" difference - I believe that "zero-time pre-move" on Lichess feels waaay better, and that's the killer feature.