Your network blocks the Lichess assets!

lichess.org
Donate

2 Years of Programming Chess Apps: My Lessons

It has come a long way. I use your tools every day!

It has come a long way. I use your tools every day!

@mattchessic said ^

It has come a long way. I use your tools every day!

Indeed. The funny thing, is that you mainly use the repertoire builder which is around 1 year old...

@mattchessic said [^](/forum/redirect/post/Wno8f72x) > It has come a long way. I use your tools every day! Indeed. The funny thing, is that you mainly use the repertoire builder which is around 1 year old...

Great blog as always. I am a little envious!!

Also, you can get around all the financial issues by never monetizing anything ;-) Just lose money. It's so satisfying.

For a while now I have been fantasizing about pulling the chess devs together and maybe working on something larger. But it's just a fantasy for now. But it's great to see people like you and know I am not alone. Thanks!

Great blog as always. I am a little envious!! Also, you can get around all the financial issues by never monetizing anything ;-) Just lose money. It's so satisfying. For a while now I have been fantasizing about pulling the chess devs together and maybe working on something larger. But it's just a fantasy for now. But it's great to see people like you and know I am not alone. Thanks!

Great blog! I completely connect with what you have written in this blog. I started my open source agine project with a pen/paper, some mathematical ideas and my laptop. It started small, and the more feedback I got it grew small bits by bits, what was a side weekend project, I even coded on evenings on weekdays! For me its just the fun of exploring and creating free analysis tools for the chess community and exploring/integrating agents for chess. Luckily for me, I had a few users who always checked my work and where there where I was angry and frustrated (cc @mattchessic, Frank and many others). Sometimes you need these kinds of users to make the project development go on (especially when the project is open source, free for all, and there is no way to earn any money from it). You know what's funny? About 6/7 months ago, I was going to quite agine project. I had these thoughts its useless and there are many other tools, but I kept building because of great users but I just got a habit of exploring chess concepts on weekends when I was so bored! I hope newer chess devs take inspiration and build new things, and just enjoy making open source or even projects for chess players. Thanks for the great blog, Hollow!

Great blog! I completely connect with what you have written in this blog. I started my open source agine project with a pen/paper, some mathematical ideas and my laptop. It started small, and the more feedback I got it grew small bits by bits, what was a side weekend project, I even coded on evenings on weekdays! For me its just the fun of exploring and creating free analysis tools for the chess community and exploring/integrating agents for chess. Luckily for me, I had a few users who always checked my work and where there where I was angry and frustrated (cc @mattchessic, Frank and many others). Sometimes you need these kinds of users to make the project development go on (especially when the project is open source, free for all, and there is no way to earn any money from it). You know what's funny? About 6/7 months ago, I was going to quite agine project. I had these thoughts its useless and there are many other tools, but I kept building because of great users but I just got a habit of exploring chess concepts on weekends when I was so bored! I hope newer chess devs take inspiration and build new things, and just enjoy making open source or even projects for chess players. Thanks for the great blog, Hollow!

@TotalNoob69 said ^

Great blog as always. I am a little envious!!

Also, you can get around all the financial issues by never monetizing anything ;-) Just lose money. It's so satisfying.

For a while now I have been fantasizing about pulling the chess devs together and maybe working on something larger. But it's just a fantasy for now. But it's great to see people like you and know I am not alone. Thanks!

I have been thinking of working on an open source project, perhaps extracting the Dossier from the Repertoire Builder as this would be a good tool for coaches. Still thinking about it though, so who knows.

@TotalNoob69 said [^](/forum/redirect/post/d23SloZa) > Great blog as always. I am a little envious!! > > Also, you can get around all the financial issues by never monetizing anything ;-) Just lose money. It's so satisfying. > > For a while now I have been fantasizing about pulling the chess devs together and maybe working on something larger. But it's just a fantasy for now. But it's great to see people like you and know I am not alone. Thanks! I have been thinking of working on an open source project, perhaps extracting the Dossier from the Repertoire Builder as this would be a good tool for coaches. Still thinking about it though, so who knows.

@Noobmasterplayer123 said ^
I hope newer chess devs take inspiration and build new things, and just enjoy making open source or even projects for chess players. Thanks for the great blog, Hollow!

Same here, this is the reason for the blog, and my programming chess series, I think we do need more people trying to programme stuff.

@Noobmasterplayer123 said [^](/forum/redirect/post/SQAJ2iYk) I hope newer chess devs take inspiration and build new things, and just enjoy making open source or even projects for chess players. Thanks for the great blog, Hollow! Same here, this is the reason for the blog, and my programming chess series, I think we do need more people trying to programme stuff.

Great writeup. I work as a software developer myself and resonate with many of your points. I can particularly appreciate your drive to learn and deliver a genuinely useful product in lieu of generating slop to check a box. The world needs more solution oriented developers like you.

Also, Lau Tzu!

Great writeup. I work as a software developer myself and resonate with many of your points. I can particularly appreciate your drive to learn and deliver a genuinely useful product in lieu of generating slop to check a box. The world needs more solution oriented developers like you. Also, Lau Tzu!

I read you, you are on an extremely good track and you understand very well the challenges associated with building application infrastructures. Way to go! Your blog post is so good, I shared it with my team as a warning about how to approach AI in a professional context. Thank you!

I read you, you are on an extremely good track and you understand very well the challenges associated with building application infrastructures. Way to go! Your blog post is so good, I shared it with my team as a warning about how to approach AI in a professional context. Thank you!

I think many successful applications are not built purely by brilliant developers sitting in isolation.

They are refined gradually through constant interaction between creators and users.

Truth.

I'm finishing up Epic Analysis in Chess Openings Wizard and it is built entirely from constant interactions with users.

> I think many successful applications are not built purely by brilliant developers sitting in isolation. > They are refined gradually through constant interaction between creators and users. Truth. I'm finishing up Epic Analysis in Chess Openings Wizard and it is built entirely from constant interactions with users.