is chess pay to win?
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ColdForestRain
Dec 30, 2025
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#1
Kind of, good chess boards are hard to find, and also chess.com has some paywalls, you need to buy a timer too, unless you want to use a app on your phone…
Dec 30, 2025
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#2
Ofc you can always just not pay and just use chess.com as it is but i find the limited puzzle and lesson amount per day very annoying
Dec 30, 2025
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#3
And also the you can’t play all the bots and one game anlaysis per day
Dec 30, 2025
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#10
i think your chess can improve easily with a trash plastic chess board ,a phone appp for a timer, or just playing on chess.com or lichess
#4 but, that’s even worse pay to play
Dec 31, 2025
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#16
ColdForestRain wrote:
is chess pay to win?
Kind of, good chess boards are hard to find, and also chess.com has some paywalls, you need to buy a timer too, unless you want to use a app on your phone…
Ofc you can always just not pay and just use chess.com as it is but i find the limited puzzle and lesson amount per day very annoying
And also the you can’t play all the bots and one game anlaysis per day
A bad workman blames his tools.
sawdof wrote:
ColdForestRain wrote:
is chess pay to win?
Kind of, good chess boards are hard to find, and also chess.com has some paywalls, you need to buy a timer too, unless you want to use a app on your phone…
Ofc you can always just not pay and just use chess.com as it is but i find the limited puzzle and lesson amount per day very annoying
And also the you can’t play all the bots and one game anlaysis per day
A bad workman blames his tools.
If we are comparing the OP guy to a workman, that's the laziest workman ever. A grand total of 25 games and 25 puzzles in 13 years. Wow.
And after 13 years of doing nothing, he concluded that he isn't progressing because he didn't pay.
Dec 31, 2025
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#18
Yes it's pay to win. I was losing a game yesterday so I told my opponent I'd pay him £10 if he resigned and he did