What's d Best/Worse Experience u've had on Chess.com ??

jeez, see what I mean !

Worse thing is losing on time out when you are in the middle of a very interesting and possibly winning game!!

Yeah .. I agree or like when u r in a Live Game and ur connection gets interrupted and doesn't reconnect when u r most probably gonna Win !

Best: Finding a friend on Chess.com that is from Ohio and knows Dayton.

Worst:  My computer breaking down during a tournament. I lose all of my tournament games on time and can't sign up for more tournaments for a while.

Best: Coming from behind and winning the last couple of group games vs. the highest seeds in group enabling me to place and go to the next round.

Worst chess.com experience-- probably the night I had just finished heating a bowl of Campbell's Chunky Beef with White and Wild Rice Soup, and as I was setting it on my desk to get ready to make some moves in my games I dumped it all over my keyboard.

And it's a little disappointing to enter a tournament with a specific rating range, only to discover your group includes a sandbagger who quickly skyrockets to his (much higher) real rating and eliminates any chance of other members of the group advancing to the next round.

Oops ...

Yeah .. Dunno what All that is about ???

 ROFL

lolololololololololol

I lived in Springfield, Ohio until 1999.  I know Dayton well enough to get around.  I was a member of a chess club in Dayton years ago at a library.  I couldn't find it now, however.

thanks to chess.com that offers chess, I guess the best moments are when your games amuse you, make you smile or smirk, even when you've made a good move that makes your opponent stumble or a move your opponent makes that stumps you...... it is so much fun, and funny for some reason (not so much when you make a totally dumb move).  For these simple moments of joy and amusement, I thank chess.com and the game of chess.  I'm not a huge gamer, but I like xbox and playstation games, and they never make me feel like chess does, they never hit my "seriously amused bone" like chess does.

worst experience?

I'm a female. I accepted a challenge from a guy and he made an inappropriate comment about my avatar which was of a woman wearing a red dress and sitting on a checkered floor. something like "I'd like to see what is under that dress"  I was disgusted, especially because (before I had avoided people on the internet because of the perverts and jerks, I'm hardly online becaue of this) I was sure the crowd playing chess would have better behavior.  I'd rather lose a game to a polite person than win against a brute like that.

I wanted to resign right away, instead I won.  He must have not been focused on chess because I was very rusty, one of my first games after returning to chess this year.  I'm glad I won, but I didn't enjoy playing this person or beating them.  It isn't the fault of chess.com, but people on the internet, but that is my worst experience on the site.... the member was wbc (something like that)

That is disgusting, and it is good that you won.  But, on the other hand, women can be disgusting, too, such as, I recently played an OTB with a girl that had on a very low-cut blouse and I wondered if she meant that to be a distraction.  I won, also.  

****** facepalm ******

you poor thing

Thanks. I feel better now.

Wow! Low-cut blouses disgust you? I thought my grandma was dead?

Depends.  In the case I was referring to, yes, because it is sort of like Ruy Lopez recommending a good chess tact was placing the board so that the light would shine in the opponent's eyes.  I recently played a man OTB that continually analyzed his next move by mumbling it to himself.  I lost all four games I played against him, but not because his mumbling distracted me. He played the end game better than I did.  

I have played chess in all types of conditions and noise levels, but when people do things in an attempt to deliberately distract me, to me that is disgusting. 

And, yes, no doubt my grandmothers are rolling over in their graves at what the women wear these days, and my mother, too.  They understood what distraction was and they did not want their husbands to witness such things.  Enough said on that subject. 

You can't be serious!? If you are, you're starting to scare me, Crosspinner.

I think if it's in bold, it has to be serious.  Someday I hope to have all my thoughts be so important I'm compelled to highlight them for the benefit of others.