I mean seriously, what is any Grandmaster doing on chess.com, unless they have been paid a tasty amount of $$ to post a column or do some analysis? Why would someone like Carlsen or Niemann want to play here at all, in a platform that is designed to market to the amateur community, and as such is riddled with patzers, old-timers, cranks, idealogues, people trying to sell you something, bots, and the usual run of crazies that populate the retail chess market?
Everyone seems in a tizzy about who was banned and for what - my question is why do we, or they, even care? Niemann is not going to play YOU. Neither is Carlsen. And frankly I can't imagine they both don't have much more pressing and remunerative chess tournaments to attend than anything hosted on chess.com. As for the rest of the GMs out there - they really need to ask themselves why they would hang out on a chess site that has nothing to do with the promotion or elevation of grandmaster chess, and exists almost exclusively to sell to the chess hobbyist.
TMB
I think a lot of GM's are earning a lot more from chess because places like Chess.com came along.
I mean seriously, what is any Grandmaster doing on chess.com, unless they have been paid a tasty amount of $$ to post a column or do some analysis? Why would someone like Carlsen or Niemann want to play here at all, in a platform that is designed to market to the amateur community, and as such is riddled with patzers, old-timers, cranks, idealogues, people trying to sell you something, bots, and the usual run of crazies that populate the retail chess market?
Everyone seems in a tizzy about who was banned and for what - my question is why do we, or they, even care? Niemann is not going to play YOU. Neither is Carlsen. And frankly I can't imagine they both don't have much more pressing and remunerative chess tournaments to attend than anything hosted on chess.com. As for the rest of the GMs out there - they really need to ask themselves why they would hang out on a chess site that has nothing to do with the promotion or elevation of grandmaster chess, and exists almost exclusively to sell to the chess hobbyist.
TMB