This is game #1 on chess.com:
How did you find this out? I take it that this was the first game started, but not the first game finished because of the ratings. Do you know anything more about the begining - was there a pool of players, where did they come from?
Thanks.
I've asked this question before and have never gotten an answer. Chess.com starts - it's on the net, ready to go. Then somebody joins, the first ever member, who do they play, erik?
They do not play anyone.
They wait untill more people join, or maybe the staff would play them.
Im sure Chess.com advertised on many sites and more then 1 person join in a time limit of 15 minutes.
Hmm, I still think that you'd need quite a few people to start at the same time. To launch with a pool of a certain number.
I've asked this question before and have never gotten an answer. Chess.com starts - it's on the net, ready to go. Then somebody joins, the first ever member, who do they play, erik?
They do not play anyone.
They wait untill more people join, or maybe the staff would play them.
Im sure Chess.com advertised on many sites and more then 1 person join in a time limit of 15 minutes.
Hmm, I still think that you'd need quite a few people to start at the same time. To launch with a pool of a certain number.
Clearly, Erik did not create the whole site by himself, therefore, the other staff members would also have been on the site when people starting joining.
I just set the game id to 1 in the URL.
I'd expect that it was the first game started, but it may also have been the first completed (no way to know for certain). Remeber that the ratings shown are the resultant ratings after the game is complete, and since Erik is 127 up from 1200 and his opponent is 127 down from 1200 I suspect they both started the game at 1200 and at a minimum it was likely the first completed game for either of them if not the first game completed on the site.
ah, yes. Good points. So the first game was with Erik. I hope the two of them had fun rattling about here on their own ;)
true. They were probably playing around looking for problems too. I'd imagine web-sites have a few launch problems.
true. They were probably playing around looking for problems too. I'd imagine web-sites have a few launch problems.
A friendly game of live chess, anyone?
Sorry, I get no joy with it whatsoever. Only a few days to go though :)
I've asked this question before and have never gotten an answer. Chess.com starts - it's on the net, ready to go. Then somebody joins, the first ever member, who do they play, erik?
They do not play anyone.
They wait untill more people join, or maybe the staff would play them.
Im sure Chess.com advertised on many sites and more then 1 person join in a time limit of 15 minutes.
Hmm, I still think that you'd need quite a few people to start at the same time. To launch with a pool of a certain number.
Clearly, Erik did not create the whole site by himself, therefore, the other staff members would also have been on the site when people starting joining.
Staff who helped to build the site
Everyone makes it what it is today though :)
I've asked this question before and have never gotten an answer. Chess.com starts - it's on the net, ready to go. Then somebody joins, the first ever member, who do they play, erik?
They do not play anyone.
They wait untill more people join, or maybe the staff would play them.
Im sure Chess.com advertised on many sites and more then 1 person join in a time limit of 15 minutes.
Hmm, I still think that you'd need quite a few people to start at the same time. To launch with a pool of a certain number.
I don't think it started as a chess playing website but a chess learning website (I think)
ah, that's interesting. So it would create a platform for a chess site to manifest. I like your thinking.
Notice, using TheGrobe's link, that in 2006 the motto was Search, Learn, Share, so no playing was involved.
Yeah, looks like my questions been answered. Nice work, hazenfelts, TheGrobe and Nytik.
Also, the way back machine is awesome.
This was the page that ended my search for an answer.
http://web.archive.org/web/20061031171429/http://www.chess.com/
It looks like the site officially went from being the chess mentor software site to the #1 Chess Portal under-development on July 28th 2005. Between January 26th 2006 and April 29th 2007 the online community was "coming soon", on May 17th and 18th 2007 a closed beta was taking place and by June 4th 2007 the site was open for business as a place where you could play online.
I've asked this question before and have never gotten an answer. Chess.com starts - it's on the net, ready to go. Then somebody joins, the first ever member, who do they play, erik?
They do not play anyone.
They wait untill more people join, or maybe the staff would play them.
Im sure Chess.com advertised on many sites and more then 1 person join in a time limit of 15 minutes.
Hmm, I still think that you'd need quite a few people to start at the same time. To launch with a pool of a certain number.
Clearly, Erik did not create the whole site by himself, therefore, the other staff members would also have been on the site when people starting joining.
I found out this site by typing in chess.com randomley because i liked chess.. aaa, that was easy
I was playing chess today on Hard(2000+) and i reached the situation in the game where my pawn had reached the back rank. In the situation I had I wanted a knight to fork two pieces but instead it gave me a queen. Is that a malfunction? Why can't I choose what piece I want when I am playing the computer? Can it be fixed?
I think the "many many" aspect of a tactics book is good for pattern recognition mainly. Repeat repeat repeat. It doesn't take all that many to demonstrate a motif though.