is a membership with the price for a beginner?
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I'm a beginner so I don't expect to get very good quickly but the lessons would help. Or is YouTube a better idea since it's free? any perks to the membership other than unlimited puzzles that's a value?
May 2, 2022
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#3
the price is low per year, but there is very little in it that you can't get free elsewhere, like an opening book or videos. IMHO its more to give back to the site after years of freeloading than it is real tangible benefits. YMMV. I can afford to support the site now, I couldn't when I started... so I do.
May 2, 2022
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#4
Depends how serious you want to get.
I started with the $39 Gold membership and it was worth it for the unlimited analysis, master games explorer and 25 rated puzzles per day.
I upgraded to the platinum for the unlimited rated puzzles as I was serious and behind on my tactics training.
I am on here almost everyday, enjoy most of the people, learn something and like to keep my progress all under one roof so it’s worth it to me.
If money is an issue, you can bounce site to site and get free but you waste more time and don’t get an accurate assessment on your growth.
jonnin wrote:
the price is low per year, but there is very little in it that you can't get free elsewhere, like an opening book or videos. IMHO its more to give back to the site after years of freeloading than it is real tangible benefits. YMMV. I can afford to support the site now, I couldn't when I started... so I do.
IMHO? YMMV? Uhhh... excuse me, but do you mind explaining what those mean?
Try it out. Like you can test a month or two. I use it from time to time. I have done a lot of lesson here when I started to play. Now i would mostly use the analyze tool. For youtube I recommend Naroditskys speedruns. He is a GM and he is very good at explaining the moves. Actually it is the best content on youtube in my opinion for learning chess.
May 3, 2022
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@OranegJuice: Abbreviation mania! there are two many lazy people here 
IMHO: In my humble opinion
YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary
What these people do is just very selfish: saving theire own time and wasting the time of others who first have to google. It´s disgusting!
Depends what you want to use it for. For someone who just plays games probably not - I started getting back into chess recently after a long period away and found I was liking the puzzles and wanted more than the 10 a day or whatever the limit is so I upgraded to platinum, but more recently since I changed all the openings I use I was enjoying the lessons so I went up to diamond as 5/week wasn't enough. So it depends on what features you will use. If you intend to do regular volumes of puzzles and/or lessons then yes it is (imo), if you're not, then probably not
May 3, 2022
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#9
30 years ago, maybe even 20, I would have agreed. Today, common usage over decades means you should have seen it before and if not, yes, you look it up because you will see it again.
This would be like me (I don't have a cell phone) complaining about the 50 or so words added to the language by that technology and people using them at me. I look them up and keep going, or dismiss it as unimportant, depending on context. Who is being lazy, the person using common abbreviations, or the person who finds it too much trouble to look an unfamiliar one up? Maybe both.