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Lichess was founded in 2010 by French programmer Thibault Duplessis. [8] [9] The software running Lichess and the design are mostly open source under the AGPL license [10] and other free and non-free licenses. [11] The name Lichess is a "combination of live/light/libre and chess". [12]
[7] [8] Chess app downloads on the App Store and Google Play Store rose by 63% after the show debuted. [9] Chess.com saw more than twice as many account registrations in November as it had in previous months, and the number of games played monthly on Lichess doubled as well. [10]
The service officially launched as Facebook Watch on August 10, 2017. For short-form videos, Facebook originally had a budget of roughly $10,000–$40,000 per episode, [1] though renewal contracts have placed the budget in the range of $50,000–$70,000. [2] Long-form TV-length series have budgets between $250,000 to over $1 million. [2]
Messenger, [11] also known as Facebook Messenger, is an American proprietary instant messaging service developed by Meta Platforms.Originally developed as Facebook Chat in 2008, the client application of Messenger is currently available on iOS and Android mobile platforms, Windows and macOS desktop platforms, through the Messenger.com web application, and on the standalone Facebook Portal ...
The domain Chess.com was set up in 1995 by Aficionado, a company based in Berkeley, California, to sell Chess Mentor, a chess-tutoring app. [7] In 2005, Internet entrepreneur Erik Allebest and partner Jarom "Jay" Severson, who met as undergraduate students at Brigham Young University, bought the domain name and assembled a team of software ...
Levy Rozman (born December 5, 1995), known online as GothamChess, is an American chess International Master, content creator, commentator, and author.Often referred to as "The Internet's Chess Teacher", [2] he produces content on the online platforms Twitch, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
Game 6 was a 136-move win for Carlsen that lasted 7 hours 45 minutes. As of 2024 [update] , it is the longest game in the history of the World Chess Championship, surpassing the previous record, a 124-move draw in game 5 of the World Chess Championship 1978 between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi .
[Note 2] Pondering (or permanent brain) is switched off and timing is adjusted to the AMD64 X2 4600+ (2.4 GHz) CPU by using Crafty 19.17 BH as a benchmark. Generic, neutral opening books are used (as opposed to the engine's own book) up to a limit of 12 moves into the game alongside 4 or 5 man tablebases .