What does the Chess.com staff say about the prizes? 🏆⭐ - Part 1

A new beginning

The question of prizes, trophies, gifts, badges or pins, are part of the reward that is obtained for a certain achievement. In psychology, rewarding a feat is an effective means that aims to motivate people when they achieve goals and objectives, these are seen as valuable and significant, in this case, the Chess.com user makes them part of a club exclusive, which makes it different from other platforms.

It is important that the platform manages to highlight this section of achievements, prizes, gifts, trophies,... since apart from recognizing a person's achievement, it has positive and constructive feedback, being able to evaluate, how many users have a membership to achieve a pin, or being a generous person giving away memberships, that is really thinking about the user and not always measuring the effectiveness of the platform by the number of bans.

I will present an update from the genesis of the achievements, an update of the articles that I have researched since 2021 and I will try to find the deep meaning, the one that ontologically has the achievements of the platform, or well I will get as close as possible.

Due to changes,... 2023 is a different world

Giving a touch beyond an explanation of what is already evident, and can be consulted directly in the sources, is to provide the information as it is expressed and my contribution is to enrich with my comments and show the relevance of those ideas that in the past or in the present are maintained.

Chess.com in its constant changes, renewed the information that it had undermined in 2021, I found at the time, 2 large groups of information about the prizes, one called, what the fans say about these pins, and what the official source says , for this I searched in two parts, one in the chess portal and another general search in the Google search engine, as a result and an update to 2023, in chronological order:

The first staff member to contribute - January 19, 2011

@DeepGreene, chess.com staff, in the general forum in his article "Help us brainstorm new site Awards " , proposed help to give a new face to chesspawnChess.com trophies, with the following ideas:

• make them more fun
• Take the ideas from Foursquare
• That the achievements be given automatically
• Give the following list of achievements
  "Dangerous Carbon Unit" - beat the computer 20 times
  "Ninja Chess" - win a ranked game via checkmate in < 15 moves
   "Smoking Gun" - Complete 10 Live Bullet matches
   "Soap dish" - publish your first blog
   "Writing pen" - publish your third blog
   "Print": publish your tenth blog
   "Addicted to Tactics" - Complete 10,000 Tactics
   "Backpacker" - Play with people from 10 different countries

I would like to think that this contribution was not in vain, that is, I have no idea what happened inside Chess.com, if he listened to @DeepGreene or not, but I can assure you that the Canadian is the first to say something and propose , which makes me think that it is at least the first to shed light on what I would call "the genesis of the awards", look at you, and compare the Forsquare pins and the current pins of the platform, coincidence, not it believe:

foursquare badges	Chess.com badges
Souce: https://foursquare.com/ Imagen tomada de: https://pin.it/4EI47wR	Source: https://www.chess.com/awards/jotahernandezv4pc/community

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