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is this a troll forum or are you serious
Stonewall_Defence wrote:
I wouldn’t doubt that this site puts bots on the playing pools as well.
Nailed it
From post 83...... " of course you not never going to show the dark side behind chess.com which is what I want to know. I DO NOT need anything such as an address but I need to know about the dark side of chess.com". 
what are you talking about? All the forums are black! 
Dec 14, 2024
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#86
FrancisWeed wrote:
the problem is that it's a for profit company. If you don't pay for membership the user experience will get progressively worse. Even if you do pay for membership at some point they will probably put the membership into tiers where you have to pay more to be in the higher tier but over time the stuff you used to get at lower tiers will only be available at the higher tiers. That's how capitalism works. The most effective ways to increase revenue are to pay the employees less, cut costs on the product (which generally makes it worse), and to raise the price on the product. So capitalism makes everything crappier over time by default.
Again: watch some of the interviews that Erik has given. That's not how he's running his company. Even if you just listen to the snippets he says at the very beginning of
Dec 14, 2024
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#87
FrancisWeed wrote:
David wrote:
FelixN2022 wrote:
There are a lot of other things that I personally experienced that are bad. From what I know there are way too many cheaters on chess.com which means that they either are lying about the numbers or there are just so many cheaters because they know they will not get banned for a longer time than on lichess.
Your personal experience is not reality. Look up the thread where I've linked several of the interviews that Chess.com CEO Erik Ellebest has given to various outlets this year: one of the things he discusses is that people only feel like they are winning & losing half of their games when they are in fact winning 80% of the games, because their losses stand out so much more prominently in their thinkig than their wins.
And where does lichess even publish their fair play statistics? Google only finds https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/fair-play-stats-for-september-26546-fair-play-closures-including-15-titled-players, which is where they're actually discussing Chess.com's fair play stats.
huh i just checked out 3 random accounts and their wins/losses for blitz were split roughly 50/50. I think this is what should be expected with the algorithm for matching
And yet, those people probably feel like they're losing more than they win, just like you're perceiving cheating when there is none.
Dec 14, 2024
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#88
FrancisWeed wrote:
because the numbers don't add up. Just look at the number of memberships compared to operating costs and compare it to similar companies. They're making bank.
How do you know what Chess.com's operating costs are? Again, check out some of Erik's interviews - he talks about the problem of venture captial where startups want to grow as possible and then cash out. That's not the chess.com model.
Dec 14, 2024
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#89
idkhow-to-mate wrote:
Of course chess.com sucks. But they are practically monopolist so they can do what they want.
Lichess is a perfectly fine alternative. It may be practically a duopoly, but it is most certainly not "practically a monopoly"
idkhow-to-mate wrote:
Honest players like me are still playing in the hope of maybe raising my elo but it's impossible with so many cheaters.
The only way to raise your Elo once it's reached its natural level is to get better at the game. That means reading up on theory, doing some lessons, getting some coaching, reviewing your games afterwards - both wins and losses - to see what you did well and what you can improve on. It's not because of cheating by your opponents (which is at maybe 3% according to the statistics).
idkhow-to-mate wrote:
This place is getting worse and worse.
They're making incremental changes that are generally improvements all the time. Some people don't like some of those changes: it doesn't mean they're "worse".
Maybe the title of this thread should be called "Things that suck". Colonoscopies suck......divorces suck.....bankruptcies suck.....
Jan 12, 2025
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#91
Ok i agree here due to the following :
1) I have perfect internet connection with 800 Mbps and 20 Mbps upload speed, and it says OK connection and i lose seconds for nothing.
2) The page gets glitchy sometimes and i need to refresh the page to have it working again
3) The game is too laggy and i think the site is having alot of Ad's that makes it very slow.
4) Most of the time i need to subscribe to utilize the site features.
5) Alot of opponents don't reflect their real rating , i played multiple times with 1600 and felt like 2000 rating with above 95+ accuracy.
6) The animations is too high that makes the site too laggy.
Jan 13, 2025
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#92
SYR_Eagle_Abood wrote:
Ok i agree here due to the following :
1) I have perfect internet connection with 800 Mbps and 20 Mbps upload speed, and it says OK connection and i lose seconds for nothing.
2) The page gets glitchy sometimes and i need to refresh the page to have it working again
3) The game is too laggy and i think the site is having alot of Ad's that makes it very slow.
4) Most of the time i need to subscribe to utilize the site features.
5) Alot of opponents don't reflect their real rating , i played multiple times with 1600 and felt like 2000 rating with above 95+ accuracy.
6) The animations is too high that makes the site too laggy.
Surely you realize that internet connections depend on many connections between your device and chess.com.
Your device and your perfect internet service are not free.Why should chess.com be free? If you won't pay, you get ads.
Somehow you have won about 60% of your games despite the problems.
Calm down Karen
Jan 13, 2025
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#95
Dude, come and see I'm playing with full signal and I'm losing seconds before i move the piece. I'm located in Sharjah, it seems your server is very far and thus ping is too high despite having perfect connection. Plus, I'm paying for services that provides high quality. If that's the case you would see me with Diamond subscriber right now.
Someone help me with this though. How does chess.com not have it?
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/tournaments/tournament-suggestions-non-live-and-bracket-style
Jan 13, 2025
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#98
I dont get it just goto like google and loook up some stats or even wikileak abt how much money they use for chess.com and how much they keep
Jan 13, 2025
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#99
SYR_Eagle_Abood wrote:
Dude, come and see I'm playing with full signal and I'm losing seconds before i move the piece. I'm located in Sharjah, it seems your server is very far and thus ping is too high despite having perfect connection. Plus, I'm paying for services that provides high quality. If that's the case you would see me with Diamond subscriber right now.
It swell that the signal goes from your device to your ISP quickly but after that, your signal has to travel thousands of miles and make dozens of other connections to get to Chess.com's servers.
That part is out of your control. It is out of Chess.com's control too.
hey!