It's been a year since my club was made!
On December 9th, 2023, at around 5pm pacific time, I made the project that would keep me glued to chess.com for hours every day and not leave this site. This project was the club G.R.O.S.S., a Calvin and Hobbes tribute to their famous club, G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS). Back in 1985 or so, Calvin and Hobbes, the best comic strip characters of all time, decided to make a club to plot against Susie Derkins, their evil neighbor. They first had it in their garage, but because they accidentally rolled the family car into a ditch trying to make club space, they almost instantly moved the club into their treehouse. Unfortunately, at the end of 1995, Calvin and Hobbes completely shut down. So, on the day exactly a year ago, I decided to bring the famous club back and put it in chess.com.
During the first 4 months of the club's reincarnation, success was very, very slow. In fact, only 10 people had joined the club in that time! I waited for 2 or 3 months after that, and maybe 10-20 people joined in that time. It was an improvement, but at that time, I thought for sure Calvin and Hobbes just died in popularity and was lost forever. Boy, was I wrong.
Around 4 months ago, the club was almost at 100 members, which was a shocking increase from what I had expected. I was happy, even if I did find out that Susie Derkins has a chess.com account and made a club with more members than me
. I knew I would come back to win, though, and live on the legend of the club. To this day, I haven't come back at Susie Derkins, but true success takes time.
Around the same time, someone with the username TheresaYaakova decided to partner her very successful club with mine. After facing a few scams at the same time, of course I was a bit skeptical of this, but it worked out, and now, exactly a year since I reincarnated this amazing club, we now have over 200 members.
For everyone who reads this, please join G.R.O.S.S., and if you already have, thank you very much! Well that's all from me for now, and cheers🍺🍺🍺🍺
And a huge cheers to Calvin, Hobbes, and Bill Watterson, the creator of this beloved comic strip, for giving me inspiration to make a huge difference on chess.com! 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
Now, before I go, I wanted to add 2 things unrelated to G.R.O.S.S. (one thing really), and then it is for real cheers, and thanks yall.
-G.R.O.S.S. Dictator for Life Calvin
