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Where did you learn to speak Spanish? I remember you joined the group Hispanohablantes, many years ago.

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Kieseritzkys_Revenge wrote:
trysts wrote:

 Is the NSA or CIA involved in your company? Is Chess.com controlled by a political party?

If they got a National Security letter they wouldn't be allowed to talk about.  We have to assume the NSA is monitoring everything.

With or without Erik's knowledge? 

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Do you plan to be a weak chess player permanently? Will you join the prodigy program? 

EDIT: Please don't delete my account. I wasn't trying to imply anything with this question.

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chesskingdreamer wrote:

Do you plan to be a weak chess player permanently? Will you join the prodigy program?

This is a good one! Wink  but he has over 1800 at Tactics, which is a litle more than "weak"

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Well, this thread's gone to hell in a handbasket.

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batgirl wrote:

Well, this thread's gone to hell in a handbasket.

Yeah, I wish it would have just stuck to the main question about CIA involvement in "the company".

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If you guys keep it up he is going to lock it and throw away the key.

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Darth_Algar escribió:

How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?

 I avoid low-quality candy.  

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chesskingdreamer escribió:

Do you plan to be a weak chess player permanently? Will you join the prodigy program? 

EDIT: Please don't delete my account. I wasn't trying to imply anything with this question.

 I plan on enjoying chess at whatever level I am at. I feel like I know enough about the game to really enjoy it and appreciate it even at it's high level. That said, my rating is mostly a reflection of how little time I am currently able to devote to studying it deeply while I'm working 50+ hours a week on the new site and have 4 young children...

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Hi eric

Is there any way chess.com will make a database for player's games? I mean otb games. Like you could input your PGN's tell the program what your name is, and then it would tell you your wins and losses etc like opening explorer, just for OTB?

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malko escribió:

Where did you learn to speak Spanish? I remember you joined the group Hispanohablantes, many years ago.

 Viví un par de años en Argentina cuando era joven. Y siendo de California, uno aprende algo. Además, he viajado bastante a mexico y sudamerica. 

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batgirl escribió:

I'm curious if there are any changes either scheduled, or in  consideration, for the forums. 

 We definitely have some ideas to improve them. That said, we cannot make dramatic changes until V2 site goes away...

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When will Adobe Flash be gone for good?

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logozar escribió:

Hi eric

Is there any way chess.com will make a database for player's games? I mean otb games. Like you could input your PGN's tell the program what your name is, and then it would tell you your wins and losses etc like opening explorer, just for OTB?

 This has been in our minds for a long time.... maybe this year! Just need to get over the hump of getting our new site live!

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btickler escribió:

When will Adobe Flash be gone for good?

 Already gone on the new site. (Again, check it out by going to "Try the new chess.com" at the bottom of any page, or www.chess.com/switch 

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On chess.com live chess it seems there is some small delay between moves. Nothing to impact the clocks significantly (that I'm aware of), but for example it seems that even when both sides are premoveing it's not lightning fast. It gives the games a different feel.

Will this delay go away in later versions of the site?

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macer75 escribió:

Who would you say is the most famous troll in the history of chess.com? Cheater_1? Lenny Bongcloud? Someone else?

 Ha! So many good memories... My favorite was probably Cheater_1 because he was a really interesting writer, and his exit (after losing the vote chess game) was so dramatic!

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erik wrote:
btickler escribió:

When will Adobe Flash be gone for good?

 Already gone on the new site. (Again, check it out by going to "Try the new chess.com" at the bottom of any page, or www.chess.com/switch 

I've checked it out...I didn't think V3 covered ChessTV yet, though.  Could be wrong.  Every time I want to watch an event here I have to re-enable Flash, then disable it again afterwards.

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What did you think of the user cheater_1?

I noticed he claimed to cheat and never got banned for 1+ years

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0110001101101000 escribió:

On chess.com live chess it seems there is some small delay between moves. Nothing to impact the clocks significantly (that I'm aware of), but for example it seems that even when both sides are premoveing it's not lightening fast. It gives the games a different feel.

Will this delay go away in later versions of the site?

 This has been debated 100 times over. There are those who believe that premove should have NO delay, and others who believe it shouldn't even exist. We have settled on a .1 second delay per premove. 

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