Is chess.com really helpful for chess or it's destroying the mind

Recently the case of witty alien even though he is a titled player he felt burnout and honestly I and my friends also feel it . The algorithm of chess.com seem like any addictive game streaks, leagues and for speed chess it never feel like competition or increasing your mental power it seem like it make me dumber . Playing chess make us feel better but at chess at real life it make me frustrated and angry and even burnout . When I played an offline tournament my elo went from 1000 to 1300. there in tournament i beated a 1600 and after tournament i beated a 1500 elo friend of mine at chess.com but now again even after playing 50 games here at chess.com it only increased 50 elo even my friend after tournament went to 1500 elo and then he dropped to 1300 and many of my chess playing friend quitted so I am also quitting. I am addicted but it's not too late to understand that chess.com is scam if u fell for it's algorithm...................here a tip play one game win or lose only one no speed chess or play it on weekends. trying playing offline more and for reaching 1000 elo and understanding basic it's pretty good but yea where elo come it get destroyed . I have experienced higher elo playing thinking they are superior and everyone is running for elo................add some insight

What is this

I am taking about cons of chess.com

I'm confused. Are you saying that it's a scam because it's forcing you to play blitz and bullet? Because I feel like that's on you. That's a choice you are actively making. If you don't feel like you are making progress with your chess improvement, you could stop playing blitz and bullet and play rapid instead.

Yea that what I am saying it's my choice but chess.com is addictive so I am not able to control myself. It's kinda my fault but it's algorithm is also addictive

What I do to limit this is that I predecide the number of games I will play say-3 if I win I win if I lose then lose

I will try this

If you want, I can help you online chess session that Iam offering for free to first 10 students to join. You can DM me if interested🙂

Yea I agree it just dopamine hits no improvement and yea I think everyone can perform better over the board game with enough understanding of chess and some can also lose who just follow a particular opening trap or something for winning

Well no Social Media destroys the mind its all rubbish. Chess makes you think so whether you think correctly to make a move and win or think incorrectly and hang your queen good or bad by playing chess you are thinking. Which one cannot say of spending hours on Social Media.

Yea good logic but touching grass is more helpful

I said I am quitting so starting now I will not reply on the forum bcz I will be touching grass bye . Enjoy chess is not bad but neither do social media it's just how much u can control ourself and honestly chess.com is no help I am quitting chess.com not chess

A wrench is good for both tightening nuts up and throwing at chess opponents

A user of the wrench decides, the wrench is just a tool

Chess is an interesting game and chess.com is amazing for giving us this opportunity to play others from all over the world. As for Witty Alien getting burnt out, it wasn’t the chess itself, or he never would have gotten close to becoming a titled player. What burnt him out was his constant streaming schedule and the demanding amount of work/effort he was investing; it wasn’t sustainable. He did return, but with less hours and hopefully this gives him a healthy balance.

how is mrchatty so awesome all the time

all his quotes are so cool

Chess.com makes you win a couple of games and then makes you lose them so you get hooked, I experienced this by creating a new account and I noticed that during the first games I was assigned to easier players and once they selected my elo they assigned me to play against other players that had the same elo as mine but were by far more experienced. You guys can trie that experiment by yourselves. Additionally there is a reddit post made by software engineer that discusses about the possibility that chess.com has an algorithm similar to the gamblings machines "addictive match making" https://www.reddit.com/r/Chesscom/comments/1onjv9n/chesscom_employs_unethical_addictive_match_making/

How does it make you lose them? Does chess.com force you to play worse?

Matchmaking usually gives me opponents to play that are in the +/- 100 range.. usually a smaller difference than that (also I think you can adjust it). At those rating differences, even if it were to sense you winning a lot and give you a harder opponent, your odds wouldn't change all that much. You could say I'm a paying member so I'm not seeing it. But I have a hard time believing free accounts are that much different. It's a lot of speculation. Unless a person could see the source code, I think it's impossible to say.

It's an interesting theory.

Losing streak, winning streak, losing streak, winning streak - There's definitely some algorithmic shenanigans going on. You can bet they're using some dark pattern concepts to try to keep you obsessed/addicted.

I am "chatting addictive", is it because of some algorithms on the forum?

Nice to meet you MrChatty, my name is Al Gorithm, and I'm an addict too.