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Chess.com sucks
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Jul 6, 2025
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I was once just a badger....teeth...claws....raging against cowardly predators. Then I became obsessed with what those soft, pink, bipeds call "chess". A month ago I was playing at 1700 elo at 5/0; now I'm drunk and besotted, lying in the gutter outside the Badgertown Tavern. The psychological toll of my obsession with my rating caused me to become unhinged. Now, badger parents nudge their cubs when passing by and exclaim : " Don't do that human chess thing, or you'll lose your mind and end up living in a filthy abandoned prairie dog burrow down by the river."
Well, the OP wants us to believe that even though he chooses to play here, every day, he actually thinks it's crap.
I still believe it is edited profanity @pianojames, online chess is pathetic, way to many cheaters, or way to many new people that have not established an elo yet, what ever the reason does not matter. There is no reason for the losing streaks people have in here or on l**hess. It is not a problem they can stop either. Bottom line is I have even started using an engine to tell me what to do while I am playing. That is the only way I am able to learn. It sure does not help me playing against GM's showing their students how to play or all the new accounts we have to play everyday. Not mad at chess.com or l**ess.com, there is just nothing they can do about the fair play.
You just confessed to cheating and you think the site is crap. Get lost.
lags all the time
There is no such thing as a zero-lag internet connection, but the average for chess.com users is about 50 milliseconds, 1/20th of a second. If your lag is much more than that, or you're experiencing disconnects, the problem is most likely on your end. When it isn't, as with server overload, which happens occasionally, everyone will be affected, and you will see an error message.
Otherwise, for example, I have zero issues, not because chess.com likes me but because my internet service is fiber optic. And it means nothing that other sites seem to work fine. Sites like Chess.com require a stronger signal to load and run smoothly than simpler, less resource-intensive non-live websites.
The average internet speed, globally, is around 60 Mbps. Check your internet speed here: https://www.speedtest.net/
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Sorry, it is a kids-friendly place, no beer
UPDATE: for some reason the previous comment about beer I replied to is deleted
So be it...
Yeah. I'm glad for that. If they're under 13, parents need to sign an agreement with chess.com though.
Does david work for chess.com?
The only reason I'm not on lichess is because I'm lazy but chess.com does suck. You know what would make a lot of sense? Asking your users what changes they would appreciate and the doing that. Like guess the move in chat watching games not more useless that crowd the experience. I hope chess.com starts forcing people to pay to play because everyone would realize, they don't like chess.com, they like chess. And the responsible answer is leave. Why are we still here. They want paying customers and they don't even know how to capitalize on ads. No one clicks on those. If you had common sense you would know everyone wants to use the engine to analyze their games. Free advice, offer it for free with ads and people will actually watch ads to analyze their games. Aren't you people supposed to be intelligent why is that not thing? God. If your business it makes, enough trash graphics and aesthetic changes, functionality is key.
yahoo
Chess.com is the choice for online chess by a ratio of about 4 to 1.
And there's a reason you're here instead of at Lichess that you aren't sharing... and it's not because of laziness. It takes about a minute to open an account there. Nothing more is needed than for you to choose a username and password, then respond to their confirmation email. You spent longer than that would take and more effort was needed just writing your complaint, above.
10/10 ragebait fr