I have a hard time allowing behavior that benefits one person and not the community. What if everyone said "I refuse to play people rated below me". Then nobody would play at all. If you want people to be willing to play you when you are 100 points lower than they are, then you should be willing to also play someone else 100 points lower than you. That is how you get a fair and balanced community. 

1. Apple. http://allrecipes.com/recipe/59124/apple-turnovers/

2. How long is a string? 

 Pdela embodies the spirit of pdelability across the full specturm of pdelation present here on Chess.com. When each one of us pdelas, we create a greater sense of pdelahood, which is the highest aspiration we can have. 

No. One one person joins per day. But how demoralizing would that be if I actually told our team that!!

(Kidding. Yes they do.)

 Step right up, armchair quarterback!

 See previous answer. 

Do you guys have a legal staff? (Graduated from Stanford Law not too long ago.) Also, do you know a guy named David Crapo? I'm pretty sure that he told me he knew you. (We were buddies at BYU).

 Get a wired (non-wifi) or strong wifi connection on a decent computer with a modern browser and no other programs running in the background. 

is it possible to allow chess.com members to make their own chess videos?? (It sounds fun!) I'me a diomond member, and I think that diomond members should have the right to make there own chess videos, so long as they are about chess, and they aren't something dumb or something a little kid would do

 No legal staff. He's the son of my parent's friends. Pretty sure I met him 30 years ago when I was 8...

 Kindness. And simple joys. 

For me, the v3 website seems to run slower than v2. Is there any reason for this? (and I have tried this on a few computers and it is still slower)

Also, why did you decide to completely overhaul the design of the website? The website may have needed a ground-up re-build, but why not keep the UI similar?

And also, will Live tournaments for groups/teams/clubs/whatever-you-call-them-now be a possibility? And maybe create them so they can be round robin or swiss? (or even double round robin!) And select your own tiebreaks... Yeah, that is a lot of things :p

And also, why are you changing the names of everything? Daily chess, clubs to name two.

And also, multiple periods (e.g. 30/75', SD/15') in Live?

And also, is this enough questions? :)

1. Eric, do you think my crush will say 'yes' tomorrow? 
2. And, which variants are you preparing for V3? 

Erik from Chess.com here. Ask me almost anything!

Key word: ALMOST

Haha! Nice one. Wait for the T shirts to go on sale.

I am advatar less, is it possible to change it so I have an advatar??

1. (boss? CEO? head? founder? i hate all of those terms....). 

My question is : WHY ?

2. solutions to so much hate : 

    2.1  FIRE MIRRORS 

    2.2  Stop to troll , fire FrenchbashXX (no naming rule one , forget it rule 2)

    2.3   boss ?     ..... visit Turkey Istanboul .... bossphore

    2.4  find better CEO then quit:   impossible task, precious Guru, stay with us in chair (et en os too).

    2.5   Head ?: visit some places you could lose head

VENEZIA is politically correct answer, I lost head there, and heart, and money too, in Venezia. Honeymoon good trip ! They said some other places exists to lose head, don't watch CNN, they're fake, complotists,

                                               better stay HEAD

3. Founder ?  don't refund it, it is not the 8th marvelous world things, Hercule's column and AlexandrianSeaLight are not operating anymore, so it is the FIRST MARVELOUS SITE to be useful, nice, relevant and helpful. Thanks to u, staff, this site, and thanks to RomeoJulietCharlie, no naming no shaming, "the man who whispers to NSA ears" I quit .... cig, 8 months ago. 

Gilbert Trigano , a genius in management, happiness, invented Club Med where people and staff were just difficult to distinguish. Some managers got idea to disguise themelves as customers (Guide Michelin for restaurants, ...), some disguise as ....basic employees, one day. I'm sure one of this days the man on top will STAY at the lowest level, just to change life. Would it be U ? 

You'll love new Boss, don't care of the CEO, forget the founder except to write your Souvenirs, and love your head, still on your shoulderss. We'll love U as CC members love U. What are we all ? lovin' ME, lovin U in a more interesting Calif. dream than Fessebouc.

Sorry for that exercise of style, the General Surgeon has determined it was good to avoid Alzheimer, actually I mean what I write, sorry for the TOP DOWN analysis, no serious consulting Group in Massachussets would read that, could u say ty for two moons, one works beautiful, the other is a useful brilliant member. If Jupiter in the Space counts 67 moons (for the moment), you may count today on 16 mio+, and tomorrow the Sun on 6 billions.

Pardon me my french, hope it is decipherable, ty.

Frenchbasher (he is talkative chatterbox, don't forget to mute him!)  

Just writing.

Curious, since we are talking about variants.  Many times, the Lichess aspect has been brought up, so we are looking at things they offer.  I do want to propose some ideas here, and I know this might change the financial aspects of the server, and I also respect a decline on my proposal as well.

The first is a suggestion that Lichess does not offer - bughouse.  Not sure if it is possible, but if we could implement bughouse as a variant here, that would be pretty cool!

The second - Lichess offers the ability to DL all games played for free.  On here, the only way to access your games is to pay a fee, and a higher one to access other's games.  It isn't a huge fee to access the ability to see your games, and there are plenty of other services that chess.com offers that are worth paying for, such as the engine analysis, ChessMentor, videos, etc.  But it would be nice to at least access your own games and stats, even without the engine analysis.  That is one perk at the moment to using Lichess for live games - I can instantly upload all my games.  I do respect if the current system is kept in place, but I think it might be cool to allow players to at least access their own games. 

Hi Erik,

If we ever play another game again, will you at least pretend you aren't beating me at some point?

And also (since it says "almost anything"), if you could give me next weeks lottery numbers, that would be great!

1. I never pretend. Except halloween. 

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