Yo @deranged completely out of topic but I started chess as a kid but but completely forgot about it till 22 years, I am now 23 years. And since you have registered in 2008 and succesfully reached 2000 which is my goal, did you began your chess journey as an adult or as a kid ?
Platinum vs diamond membership - which is best for me?
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Jan 7, 2022
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Chess.com’s vids are on YouTube for free so why buy a membership with money when you can watch them for free?
I cancelled my diamond membership. There were plenty of reasons why:
1) chess.com does not care about the quality of arena tournaments, despite the fact that these are the most prevalent tournaments by miles. The tournaments are populated by sandbaggers and engine users. To make matters worse, chess.com has doubled down on the arena format by allowing streaks to count towards points in leagues.
2) most of the learning content is either of poor quality of nonexistent. Example: puzzles. Most of the puzzles would never, ever come up in an actual game. Worse, there is no real explanation to many of the puzzles. I have a 2200+ puzzle rating and I routinely come across puzzles and after seeing the solution, I'm still confused. Very often, the puzzles include non-forced moves by the other side that make no sense.
The lessons are ridiculous; I'm a 1400-1500 player and I'm still being prompted to watch a video on how knights move. Seriously? That's a waste of my time.
One day I got interested in playing the Benoni as a defense vs 1. d4. I couldn't find a single video on the Benoni. It isn't as though the Benoni were a fringe defense to 1. d4, like the Dutch.
Honestly, I think you'd be better off spending the money you might use on a platinum or diamond account to get a few good books. You can play for free otherwise.
Hey pal, great to read you. I was just wondering myself the same question. How is going the traning?
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Feb 19, 2023
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platinum is good enough unlesss you want cloud analysis, but you prob don't need it.
Platinum is good enough. Only extra is unlimited coach explanations for every move for diamond members.
Plat is prob better
I found the videos on YouTube to be much higher quality and easier to digest. For example: IM John Bartholomew and GM Daniel Naroditsky both taught me a lot, and their videos are free to watch on YouTube.
I'll definitely check them out, I haven't really looked at chess on youtube all that much.
You should watch it. The speedrun of GM Daniel Naroditsky is very good. It's too bad that diamond is that expensive for just some video's. I'm thinking about getting platinum. If chess.com would offer more for diamond, I would consider it but now it seems not worth it for me. Its also because I would like to support a good site but just offer something extra that makes it worth the effort.