ICC is the one who paid GMs to play :) we have never paid anyone to play on the site.
how many of your friends think they will get to play GMs if they are here? :)
are your friends all in high school in beverly hills? i can picture them saying "the food at that restaurant must not be any good. there are no celebrities eating there."
come for the people and the features. NOBODY has the same friendly community we do, NOBODY offers as much for free, and NOBODY has as many features and benefits in one place.
:)
Many of my friends that play on other chess servers dont want to play on chess.com because the lack of grand masters. They say that its not a good chess site because there are few grandmasters and they think the ones here are getting payed to play here. Is anything we could do to get more grandmasters and masters in general?