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By my calculations, there has been an increase of 6 million members since January 2023. That is approximately 40% increase in membership. What is going on, or what is wrong with my calculations?
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RexTowns wrote:
By my calculations, there has been an increase of 6 million members since January 2023. That is approximately 40% increase in membership. What is going on, or what is wrong with my calculations?

The site has increased more than that. There were 100,000,000 in mid-December and over 134,000,000 now.

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Here's an article that explains some of it: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/24/science/chess-games-adolescents.html

Bit not necessarily all of it.