isnt Chess.com for chess?
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I don't chat during play. I usually say good game at the end or congratulations if I lose. I think the forum is where communication should be done. Just my perspective on the topic.
Commenting here for the comment achievement lol
But I am giving up clubs to focus on chess so...
Jun 29, 2020
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#46
Ziryab wrote:
batgirl wrote:
TheMouth888 wrote:
I dont think this guy realizes that in 2007, that reallyw as all the site did. Its changed over time to attract more people. I personally love the forums and blogs, while others might not.
Actually, it's just the opposite. When chess.com first started there was no way to play chess here at all. There were forums, blogs, articles, some informational stuff, but no chess. After a month or so Daily Chess was introduced (only it wasn't called that). Then a year of two later, Live Chess. Learning tools were gradually introduced.
When this site began, the best forums were on other sites. I started here when it had been going for six months. By that point, there was correspondence chess. It was called something else then. Eric created a forum looking for a new name. The overwhelming response was to call it correspondence chess. Out of that discussion, he somehow settled on “Daily”.
Meanwhile, other forms of chess grew rapidly. The forums, though, became the best chess forums on the web within two years of the site’s existence. I haven’t logged into that other site in several years.
This site is my Facebook.
I agree with about all that.
I remember the name hunt. At that time most places were calling it "turn-based chess." The clumsiness of that name seemed to be a turn-off. The term "correspondence chess" conflated it with postal chess. So "Daily Chess" was finally settled upon. I think, in the end, it was a good choice.
lol
Jun 30, 2020
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#48
batgirl wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
batgirl wrote:
TheMouth888 wrote:
I dont think this guy realizes that in 2007, that reallyw as all the site did. Its changed over time to attract more people. I personally love the forums and blogs, while others might not.
Actually, it's just the opposite. When chess.com first started there was no way to play chess here at all. There were forums, blogs, articles, some informational stuff, but no chess. After a month or so Daily Chess was introduced (only it wasn't called that). Then a year of two later, Live Chess. Learning tools were gradually introduced.
When this site began, the best forums were on other sites. I started here when it had been going for six months. By that point, there was correspondence chess. It was called something else then. Eric created a forum looking for a new name. The overwhelming response was to call it correspondence chess. Out of that discussion, he somehow settled on “Daily”.
Meanwhile, other forms of chess grew rapidly. The forums, though, became the best chess forums on the web within two years of the site’s existence. I haven’t logged into that other site in several years.
This site is my Facebook.
I agree with about all that.
I remember the name hunt. At that time most places were calling it "turn-based chess." The clumsiness of that name seemed to be a turn-off. The term "correspondence chess" conflated it with postal chess. So "Daily Chess" was finally settled upon. I think, in the end, it was a good choice.
As I said then, and I have said in hundreds of other forum posts, it has the same time control and rules as chess played by mail—postal, telegraph, email, or transmission via website. The correspondence chess here differs from correspondence chess played via ICCF mostly because chess.com still bans engine use.
I will continue to call it what it is: correspondence chess, and will put “daily” in quote marks because it represents a strange aberration—a name that is called that only here, but that is indistinguishable from the chess I have played at more than a dozen other sites.
nxc2009 wrote:
I dont see the point of Chess.com having chat ... or forum ... or clubs...
because Chess.com is supposed to be a website/app that improves chess skill, not chatting ability.
And also because those things might distract us but also hurt us ... Chat and other things can easily go wrong because there are online hackers, scammers, trolls, and other people who aren't on chess.com to play chess. If Chess.com didn't have these things then people could really improve rating and chats club and forum dosn't improve anything exept for higher chance of exposure or risk of online safety!
Chess.com is a social networking service (See Wikipedia)
Jun 30, 2020
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#50
Ziryab wrote:
I will continue to call it what it is: correspondence chess, and will put “daily” in quote marks because it represents a strange aberration—a name that is called that only here, but that is indistinguishable from the chess I have played at more than a dozen other sites.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Jun 30, 2020
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#51
batgirl wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
I will continue to call it what it is: correspondence chess, and will put “daily” in quote marks because it represents a strange aberration—a name that is called that only here, but that is indistinguishable from the chess I have played at more than a dozen other sites.
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
The confusing terminology is a major source of the endless threads suggesting that the use of databases is cheating. All of these must be answered by explaining that, despite what chess.com calls it, it is correspondence chess and follows the rules and traditions of correspondence chess.
Also, my honeysuckle lacks thorns.
I dont think this guy realizes that in 2007, that reallyw as all the site did. Its changed over time to attract more people. I personally love the forums and blogs, while others might not.
Actually, it's just the opposite. When chess.com first started there was no way to play chess here at all. There were forums, blogs, articles, some informational stuff, but no chess. After a month or so Daily Chess was introduced (only it wasn't called that). Then a year of two later, Live Chess. Learning tools were gradually introduced.
When this site began, the best forums were on other sites. I started here when it had been going for six months. By that point, there was correspondence chess. It was called something else then. Eric created a forum looking for a new name. The overwhelming response was to call it correspondence chess. Out of that discussion, he somehow settled on “Daily”.
Meanwhile, other forms of chess grew rapidly. The forums, though, became the best chess forums on the web within two years of the site’s existence. I haven’t logged into that other site in several years.
This site is my Facebook.