My life on chess.com. Part 2: Return after 11 months, the creation of Krashtarsta's Chess Team
Hi all! I hope you enjoy reading this story. All your friends are interested, maybe you are interested too.
Today I will tell you about my returning in chess.com and the creation of future Red Pawn.
Briefly about part 1: my first account: @Firefly_2010. I began to develop clubs very actively and at that time had impressive members. But there was a destruction in May, which is why my club “Firespark” was damaged several times. And at the beginning of June 2020, a massive war against me began. It lasted about 9-10 days, but believe me, the sight was very terrible. I don’t want you to be in the shoes of any chess.com user who knew about this. As a result, my club "Firespark" was completely destroyed on the 2nd attempt and I left chess.com... Nobody thought that I would return...
An ordinary day in May 2021. A year has passed since the beginning of the May war between the clubs (due to envy, everyone wanted to collapse Firespark because it was the most successful). 11 months have passed since that terrible conflict.
As if nothing had happened, I log into my account in lichess (it is now closed). As always, I want to play chess for fun and just have a good time. I received a notification... from metallistverder. How surprised I was then. Metallistverder was an extremely popular person during the nightmare of 2020 and was kind of on my side since @Matveev_Andrey was more aggressive. And even more so, she wanted peace. We started talking for several days. She admitted that she was a girl and not a boy (she successfully pretended to be one) and explained the reason. She told a few more secrets. When she wrote to me, I asked a very boring question: “What’s on chess.com?” The answer made me think... “We miss u. Even Matveev and his company began to miss you. It became boring without you.”
Maybe this is a joke? Maybe reality? Why can’t they create their own club and chill? Why am I needed? Why did they suddenly change sides? Unclear. As far as I understand, the reason was that the Russian community was practically destroyed. I was the only one who could actually create something useful and maintain good communication. And I was the only one who could easily find a language with the foreign community. I still don't know if this is correct or not.
May 15, 2021 I am registering an account @Krashtarsta. The dialogue with @metallistverder was still ongoing. I decided not to reveal to her that he had registered an account. After 2 days, on May 17, 2021, I activate it and enter... Stop... The Russian community is dead... Why is there a Russian-language club here. And its name is actually a masterpiece. I'll give you a few seconds to think about what it was called.
"TanyaKel And Her Friends". Still, the postscript “His” or “Her Friends” was embedded in chess.com for a long time. I entered it. I immediately announced that I exist. I decided to look at the accounts... I didn’t know their nicknames for sure. They were registered after the conflict in 2020. But they knew perfectly well what happened. I was asked a question by an account I didn't know: "Are you a firefly?"
I started communicating. All unfamiliar accounts became my friends immediately. They said, “We never thought that we would see that very legend of 2020.” They began to check me en masse. What if I'm a fake? One whistleblower from 2020 asked me a question about my club “Android” (I don’t know anything about it, it was a club in which I gained leadership experience. And it was before Firespark). I answered correctly...
I decided to check all my familiar accounts from 2020. 95% of all accounts were last online a long time ago... Then I realized: after that conflict, the Russian community was still able to be restored by newcomers from the CIS countries. Although all the old people who survived the 2020 war left, the newcomers were able to create a new community and learn about the 2020 war...
Common days. I made a lot of Russian friends. And then I remembered... clubs... Why not create a club for my friends? Maybe I’ll find new ones after this club! Why not revive Firespark? Will I be able to overtake the number of Firespark users with my new club?
Summer. I'm in the village. June 15, 2021. 11:02 AM UTC ( 14:02 PM GMT+3). A club appears on chess.com. Its name is "Krashtarsta's Chess Team". In the future it will be known as Red Pawn - Chess Team...
God, the real old people of the club who were in it even before the 200 user mark (believe me, there are practically no such people left, they are very difficult to find) remember this legendary name. And yes, I just told you a fact about Red Pawn that almost no one knows.
In the next part I will write about the development of Krashtarsta's Chess Team or Red Pawn. For now everyone have a great day and bye!
