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Why is this Diamond, Platin or gold so expensive that’s so unfair i want to do the puzzle not only one time, i want to make it many times without MONEY! And what is when somebody don’t have this money? THAT’S REALLY UNFAIR!
Jul 31, 2020
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seva0663 wrote:
Why is this Diamond, Platin or gold so expensive that’s so unfair i want to do the puzzle not only one time, i want to make it many times without MONEY! And what is when somebody don’t have this money? THAT’S REALLY UNFAIR!
Welcome to life, kiddo...
There are free alternatives, you just have to search them out.
But PUZZLES I want to make them but I made it only one time and then i can’t do it many times!
its only for users with membership, its weird and also not much fun
You can get free memberships by winning some chess.com 'special' tournaments.
Jul 31, 2020
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#6
Other than "special chess.com tournaments" (which require really good chess ability/rating to usually win anything), some clubs offer forum games or other non-chess things to win memberships occasionally.
https://www.chess.com/club/the-real-club
This is one club that does this every now and then.
p.s. I am in no way associated with this club except for being a regular member currently.
Aug 1, 2020
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#7
Hey, staff at chess.com deserve to be paid for their work - they have bills to pay too. When I was younger I didn't have much money so I did without. That's just life. Nothing is free.
Aug 1, 2020
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#8
That may have sounded harsh, but I watched as other kids got to do cool things when I couldn't. It just made me stronger and work harder. I WAS bummed at the time, of course.
Aug 1, 2020
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#9
Also for the op @seva0663 (as well as anyone else interesting in this forum), here is a good resource for an introduction to chess "opening principles" which will greatly help beginner and intermediate players especially improve at chess and navigate the opening more safely. 
https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again
Aug 1, 2020
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#10
Its not really as expensive as you think not for adults anyway. If you do the math 100 dollars divided by 12 months it comes out to 8 dollars and 30 cents a month. Really I think it feels expensive because of the 100 dollar up front cost but really its less then Netflix. Now maybe to a lot of people Chess is not better then Netflix so its seems like its not enough value, however I got to say they let you do a lot for free with no payment. So really its what ever floats your boat so to speak.
seva0663 wrote:
Why is this Diamond, Platin or gold so expensive that’s so unfair i want to do the puzzle not only one time, i want to make it many times without MONEY! And what is when somebody don’t have this money? THAT’S REALLY UNFAIR!
1. It is not that expensive
2. If you are REALLY short on money, then maybe you can stick to a basic membership or you can play on [removed].org as the features there are free.
KeSetoKaiba wrote:
Other than "special chess.com tournaments" (which require really good chess ability/rating to usually win anything), some clubs offer forum games or other non-chess things to win memberships occasionally.
https://www.chess.com/club/the-real-club
This is one club that does this every now and then.
p.s. I am in no way associated with this club except for being a regular member currently.
That club is closing 
Aug 1, 2020
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#13
Sadly yeah, I posted that post a day or two before the club closing was announced. It isn't closing until early September though (roughly a month from now) and there are still chances for prizes between now and then.
KeSetoKaiba wrote:
Sadly yeah, I posted that post a day or two before the club closing was announced. It isn't closing until early September though (roughly a month from now) and there are still chances for prizes between now and then.
I think @Itude meant August 9th cus September 8th is on Wednesday
Aug 1, 2020
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kracker12345 wrote:
KeSetoKaiba wrote:
Sadly yeah, I posted that post a day or two before the club closing was announced. It isn't closing until early September though (roughly a month from now) and there are still chances for prizes between now and then.
I think @Itude meant August 9th cus September 8th is on Wednesday
I hope not; that would be even less time
Aug 1, 2020
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seva0663 wrote:
Why is this Diamond, Platin or gold so expensive that’s so unfair i want to do the puzzle not only one time, i want to make it many times without MONEY! And what is when somebody don’t have this money? THAT’S REALLY UNFAIR!
Personally I think chess.com offers a very fair price for its premium services, if you just want tactics there are many other websites like chesstempo.com
Aug 1, 2020
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#17
As a kid, I actually used the "expensive" prices of the premium memberships to motivate me to become a titled player. If you are titled, chess.com gives you free membership forever! As EnergeticHay mentioned, there are other places if you really need them... Good luck!
People just don't understand, chess.com is a huge site, which means it has to pay a LOOOOOOOOT to have all the data, to host thousands of games, different servers, the production, everything, isn't for free, the 100+ member staff need money as well, it gets more expensive as the site needs more money otherwise it wont run!
And for everything you get it is a pretty good deal.
Dexxxter wrote:
So its elitist then, giving free membership to titled players while forcing the newbies to either pay or go elsewhere?
Chess is elitist and has been forever, sucks for most but it is what it is. Time for change? Sure, anyone wanting to help? No, well guess we carry on
