Why does everything in chess.com cost money

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ren97ren wrote:

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That's just not true. You can play 100,000 games and never spend one penny.

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Yeah but still I can’t analyze hardly any game (literally one a day and barley have any lessons, plus I think I’m getting worse and my hatred for chess is rapidly growing like pouring gasoline in a wildfire and putting it in the middle of the Amazon.

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Uživatel ren97ren napsal:

Yeah but still I can’t analyze hardly any game (literally one a day and barley have any lessons, plus I think I’m getting worse and my hatred for chess is rapidly growing like pouring gasoline in a wildfire and putting it in the middle of the Amazon.

Well.. everybody sometimes lose more often and sometimes less... I also had moments when i wanted quit chess... and yeah its always an option i dont wanna say that its bad..

And to the thing that you can analyze only one game... thats just thinking of people who plays chess only online. You can analyze every single game by yourself if you want. There is hundreds of free engines what you can use. Yeah it takes time and so, but how do you think that people analyze OTB games? They just rewrite it move by move. 

If you dont wanna throwing money here you can watching videos on youtube you can read books... there is always a way

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at first i thought someone else made this but i was me, thanks for the insight even after all these years

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because they need money to run this

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Because chess.com ain't doing this for free. They have a family to feed.

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Certain features should not be subject to a paywall.
Game analysis is a valuable tool to determine if someone is violating the fair play policy or not, especially in a tournament. When a 600 rated player has a 98% accuracy, you know something is fishy. When they consistently do this, is virtually guaranteed that they are cheating. Players shouldn't have to pay for a feature that they can use to determine if they are being robbed.

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Chess.com invests in continuous development and improvement of its website and applications. This includes creating new features, improving existing ones, and fixing bugs. Developers, designers and support staff need to be compensated for their work.

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Get everything for free on lichess

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Because you could always move to North Korea but most people prefer capitalism?

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TwoVices wrote:

Because you could always move to North Korea but most people prefer capitalism?

I thought chess.com didnt allow political avatars... yours is VERY political

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im pretty sure chess.com has plenty of money by now...

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Me too. They can even host Titled Tuesdays that prize money is up to $1009
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I mean $1000 not $1009
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The site is free to use.
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Southern_Pride wrote:

.... if the staff does not reinstate my avatar.

The site won't reinstate avatars that don't meet community guidelines.

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The only things I feel should be free are unlimited accuracy scores and puzzles. I dont mind them charging for any other features. Even if you needed the full membership to do a full game review and move by move analysis, it should still show the score in your archive for free imo. At the very least you should be able to get these at the lowest level membership.

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TwoVices wrote:

Because you could always move to North Korea but most people prefer capitalism?

Uhhh.... North Korea isn't technically communist... it uses the North Korea Won...

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Does this site still accept bitcoin as payment?