Bongcloud you said, now thats appropriate.
Chess.com History Book; Calling all historians and first members!
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Feb 23, 2014
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As a real historian, this sounds like an interesting project. But one thing people don't realize about historical work, is how labor intensive it truly is. You don't just accept what people say, you have to try and find corroborating source documentation from multiple, first-hand, sources. You must deal with the fact that memories are fallible, and people have their own agendas when it comes to sharing information. In most cases, leadership fails to understand the commitment of resources to produce a truly accurate and useful history. This is unfortunate, because if leadership truly took the effort seriously, then it would not repeatedly make the same errors in judgment over and over and over and over again.
But they don't, and so they always do, unnecessarily wasting time, money, and resources. If there is a lesson to be learned from history it is this: people always fail to learn from it.
chess.com also birthplace of now-famous "daeth-trap" opining, invinted by Daeth himself. And what was that other thing that Rasta guy was all about? the Parboiled Attack, or something. Still guaranteed to annihilate any sub-1k rated player.
OldChessDog wrote:
As a real historian, this sounds like an interesting project. But one thing people don't realize about historical work, is how labor intensive it truly is. You don't just accept what people say, you have to try and find corroborating source documentation from multiple, first-hand, sources.
OK, I, for one, agree with trysts assessment of the history of cc.
trysts wrote:
chessdex wrote:
trysts wrote:
There were various movements throughout the history of Chess.com, including the bongcloud wave, the pancake/waffle riddle, and the squirrel rave.
Can you explain all of them? I am not familiar with them
Sure. Briefly, the bongcloud wave appears to have been an opening invented by a Chess.com member. Since the opening requires that the players be high, Chess.com was able to obtain advertising revenue from NORML and the magazine, High Times, as well as various food services. From this revenue Chess.com was able to add colours to their originally black & white web pages.
The pancake/waffle riddle became the first unsolved problem in Chess.com history. For nearly two years Chess.com members refused to play chess at all, puzzling over which breakfast item was better. An abundance of diverse toppings, including various syrups and fruits, did not make things easier. It remains a mystery to this day if there is a reasonable solution.
The squirrel rave happened because squirrels are just cute, no matter what anyone says
Thank you so much!
ai36 wrote:
chess.com also birthplace of now-famous "daeth-trap" opining, invinted by Daeth himself. And what was that other thing that Rasta guy was all about? the Parboiled Attack, or something. Still guaranteed to annihilate any sub-1k rated player.
Who was Rasta?
Are there any more information we can add? Right now the book is pitiful
Right, tallibillychess was the most impressive chess variant I had ever seen