I am one myself

a lot

About 85%

How did you arrive at this number?

Incidentally, this would mean that 15% of the 690,000 players, or approxamately 103,500 have at least a silver membership.  Assuming (conservatively) that they've all opted for annual silver memberships at $2.49/month that means that chess.com is pulling in a minimum of $250,000 per month.

Although I'd be happy to hear for Erik's sake that this was the case, somehow I think it's a far higher percentage than 85%.

I will recalculate

To be fair it seems like a very high percentage of forum posters have some form of premium membership; he is probably estimating based on that.

Most players don't post on the forums, and I'd go so far to say that a good chunk of those 600,000 players don't actually play here anymore.

Maybe 1-3% are premium members.

0% of members are silver anymore.

Well, they got a free boost to a Gold membership if they were Silver when chess.com cancelled it. : )

ADK

IM a mooch :-)

Premium FTW! ;)

 You know that 72% of statistics are made up on the spot.