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pessy42

Mar 8, 2023

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#1

This website has become a joke in all its core.

They bought all smaller websites that offered chess only for them to create such a terrible, awful website. Their matchmaking is beyond garbage. I get 4OO elo lower players, hence if i win, i earn one great point ... where is motivation in playing ?? what kind of logic is this? Do they really have such garbage management, that they cant fix basics of the game?

Also, why cant i premove more than one move on a phone? How can i compare versus premoving on PC ? I have elo around 2100 and either i lose by being flagged with premoves (I play on phone) or I get opponent that is 1400 and have no desire to play such game ...

Others thoughts on what a sh*thole this website has became?

Martin_Stahl

Mar 8, 2023

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#2

pessy42 wrote:

This website has become a joke in all its core.

They bought all smaller websites that offered chess only for them to create such a terrible, awful website. Their matchmaking is beyond garbage. I get 4OO elo lower players, hence if i win, i earn one great point ... where is motivation in playing ?? what kind of logic is this? Do they really have such garbage management, that they cant fix basics of the game?

Also, why cant i premove more than one move on a phone? How can i compare versus premoving on PC ? I have elo around 2100 and either i lose by being flagged with premoves (I play on phone) or I get opponent that is 1400 and have no desire to play such game ...

Others thoughts on what a ... this website has became?

You can configure your settings to limit the range of ratings.

https://support.chess.com/article/1962-how-do-i-choose-what-rating-my-opponents-are

As to premoves on the apps

https://support.chess.com/article/642-what-are-premoves-and-how-do-they-work

pessy42

Mar 8, 2023

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#3

i have set it to 200 elo difference, thats what makes the least sense, like why even put such option when the engine ignores it completly ...

MrKoovy

Mar 8, 2023

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#4

pessy42 wrote:

This website has become a joke in all its core.

They bought all smaller websites that offered chess only for them to create such a terrible, awful website. Their matchmaking is beyond garbage. I get 4OO elo lower players, hence if i win, i earn one great point ... where is motivation in playing ?? what kind of logic is this? Do they really have such garbage management, that they cant fix basics of the game?

Also, why cant i premove more than one move on a phone? How can i compare versus premoving on PC ? I have elo around 2100 and either i lose by being flagged with premoves (I play on phone) or I get opponent that is 1400 and have no desire to play such game ...

Others thoughts on what a sh*thole this website has became?

At the time of writing this, you've played 44 blitz games today... and only 3 have been against players more than 200 ELO points away from your own (the vast majority are within 100 ELO points). Assuming your settings were set correctly, does that ratio merit the "beyond garbage" distinction?

Also, are there any other mobile chess platforms that allow multiple premoves? This is a genuine question as I'm not familiar with other apps. If the Chess.com app is the exception and not the rule, then you have a valid complaint. If other apps only support one premove at a time, then it seems it's a limitation of the technology and not a failure of any one app.

Martin_Stahl

Mar 8, 2023

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#5

MrKoovy wrote

Also, are there any other mobile chess platforms that allow multiple premoves? This is a genuine question as I'm not familiar with other apps. If the Chess.com app is the exception and not the rule, then you have a valid complaint. If other apps only support one premove at a time, then it seems it's a limitation of the technology and not a failure of any one app.

I don't know about other apps but the sites implementation is that premoves are queued client side, so that may play into any difference.

pessy42

Mar 8, 2023

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#6

even if it was just a one game, its still too many ... especially when i cant even abort that one game...

regarding premoves, well, then maybe make a limit on premoves on pc so its an equal game?

Ziryab

Mar 8, 2023

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#7

pessy42 wrote:

This website has become a joke in all its core.

They bought all smaller websites that offered chess only for them to create such a terrible, awful website. Their matchmaking is beyond garbage. I get 4OO elo lower players, hence if i win, i earn one great point ... where is motivation in playing ?? what kind of logic is this? Do they really have such garbage management, that they cant fix basics of the game?

Also, why cant i premove more than one move on a phone? How can i compare versus premoving on PC ? I have elo around 2100 and either i lose by being flagged with premoves (I play on phone) or I get opponent that is 1400 and have no desire to play such game ...

Others thoughts on what a sh*thole this website has became?

If rating is what drives you, chess is not your game.

Martin_Stahl

Mar 8, 2023

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#8

pessy42 wrote:

even if it was just a one game, its still too many ... especially when i cant even abort that one game...

regarding premoves, well, then maybe make a limit on premoves on pc so its an equal game?

You should be able to abort, unless you have aborted too many, as a percentage of recent games.