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I don’t mind paying for something particularly if it means the people who run it can make a living from it —- and hopefully ensure it’s still around in 10 years time.
Same here, that's why I pay for Lichess! https://lichess.org/patron
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"People" on the planet? If that's accurate it's not super impressive, considering that probably 95-99% (or more) of people don't take chess very seriously. I used to be the top 99-99.5% of Counter-Strike players (_very_ roughly obviously), and that wasn't very impressive at all even though it's way past top 99.9% of "people on the planet". (that being said,
You can find whatever semantic qualifier makes it impressive enough for you, but a 2400 FIDE rating is extremely impressive and difficult to achieve.
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The game reviews are really nice to quickly see the key points of the game. Plus the UI all over is better than Lichess. That and network effects explain the rest.
I'm curious, as someone who appreciates the simple and intuitive Lichess UI, what makes the Chess.com UI better than Lichess'?
Chess.com has the somewhat unique property of being a chess server run by people who aren't good at chess and aren't good at technology. I think they used to hire devs off Fiverr. However they are somewhat good at business as they've convinced thousands of people to pay $17.00 per month for something that can be found for free at Lichess.org. They do pay a ton of money to streamers to use their site exclusively, whic…
>run by people who aren't good at chess To be fair, Danny Rensch is a 2402 FIDE rated player. That's better than 99.9% of people on the planet.
Chess found its way into my YouTube feed and that got me back into it. I wonder if this is just some bizarre case of the outcome of some thing like that. “Oops we accidentally put chess in front of everyone for a week and now they’re all playing it.”
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>run by people who aren't good at chess To be fair, Danny Rensch is a 2402 FIDE rated player. That's better than 99.9% of people on the planet.
Most competitive sports & games are much more cruel than chess, but chess is still very cruel. Can you imagine achieving recognition or winning money as the 3000th best Fortnite player? Or the 3000th best League of Legends player? If so, you'd be winning on personality during streaming but certainly not on competitiveness.
There are quite a few retired pros still earning in that cohort, so, yeah. The prize pool is pretty deep and 3,000 is still top 0.2%.
Chess.com has the somewhat unique property of being a chess server run by people who aren't good at chess and aren't good at technology. I think they used to hire devs off Fiverr. However they are somewhat good at business as they've convinced thousands of people to pay $17.00 per month for something that can be found for free at Lichess.org. They do pay a ton of money to streamers to use their site exclusively, whic…
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Anti-cheat monitoring can happen after the fact though, and Stockfish can run in-browser (there's a JS-compiled version of it).
Oh cool. Does it run in the browser for This website? That would scale far better.
I am one of the people now playing chess every day but I don't think it's down to all those reasons listed. In my case, I am using it as a replacement for social media. Previously I'd pick up my phone and go straight to Instagram or some other app. I realised that my time was just wasted scrolling through pictures and videos that has absolutely no value. Chess is something I can open on my app and I can play on the b…
If you actually want to get good, you'll need to: (1) play in a focused way, and review your games to see what mistakes you made. Where did you go wrong, and why? (2) study chess theory. Pawn theory, opening theory, etc. This will dramatically improve your play. (3) review games by the pros. Understand why they do what they do. There are a million youtubers who will talk through their choices as they play.