Finally, chess.com is going to reach 500,000 members! 500,000 people who have taken time to register! Let us celebrate! Great job, erik and staff, and congratulations on getting 500,000members!

Your celebration is a tad to hasty. Today (march 1 2009) in the upper right corner of the homepage it says:

Congratulations to staff nevertheless!

I think the millionth player to join should get a trophy.

plus i have 2 user IDs. make that 499,557.

I'd advise deleting one of them as it's against the rules to have more than one account: http://www.chess.com/legal.html#rules

i'll be asleep when this happens - see you in the morning!

Total Members: 499,677

     I am feeling smaller

Awardchess is challenging them to a game the moment they sign up.   :)

I went thru the link carefully: I didnt find anything in the rules that prohibit claiming one had more-than-one account (they did prohibit actually having more-than-one account, but that is a different thing, innit?) ;-)

I have more than one account.

The above statement is false.

The above statement is false.

a big milestone for chess.com - 500,000 members in about 21 months. not bad!

Only 6,763,500,000 or so more to go:

http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html

I can't beleive this site is only 21 months old!

Congrads!!!

anyone know who it was?

go chess.com

Did they get a T-shirt?  # 500,000 should AT LEAST get a chess.com T-shirt.

 No, that's # 1,000,000

good jobs, chess.com staffs

More people than Luxembourg!

Well, really though -- the appeal of chess.com vs Luxombourg?  There's no contest.

You will go blind.