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TitanChess666 wrote:

i didnt join till 2016

i wasnt around when chesscom opened...

same

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nvm 15

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@notmtwain

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I don’t think so

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When was chess.com created?

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why not? 30 july 2007, a bit later then Eric 

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ChessMasterRowen a écrit :

When was chess.com created?

In may 2007 or so, and we had the staff members joining back them , I would not consider them members

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Oh, get her!

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nah this is the oldest  https://www.chess.com/member/billwall

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tsabbaomer wrote:

nah this is the oldest  https://www.chess.com/member/billwall

 

Maybe the first member not affiliated with the site creation.

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billwall was closed by the site in 2017, so how about still active oldsters?

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DrSpudnik wrote:

billwall was closed by the site in 2017, so how about still active oldsters?

Mr. Wall closed his own account, then returned as @minichess and is stil active.  As @billwall he had been one of the biggest content contributors. 

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batgirl wrote:
DrSpudnik wrote:

billwall was closed by the site in 2017, so how about still active oldsters?

Mr. Wall closed his own account, then returned as @minichess and is stil active.  As @billwall he had been one of the biggest content contributors. 

Really? I thought you got a gray X if you closed your own account instead of the dramatic red do not enter sign.

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I specifically remember mentioning his leaving to Erik at the time...I'm almost 100% sure it was voluntary.   I suspect what happened with the red x is that sometimes a staff or mod with open a self-closed account for some reason (some things can't be ascertained in a closed account) and then reclose it. When it's reclosed, it automatically shows up as if for abuse.  Often what you see isn't what you got.

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Chess.com was created in 2007 Kohai (staff memeber) joined in 2007 too and is still a member..

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@batgirl, you said that Bill Wall joined sometime during May. I found out. He joined on May 18, 2007.

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Well aren't you the little detective!  happy.png

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CHESS COM

 

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SoyomboA24t52 wrote:

CHESS COM

 

Another fabulous bump of an old thread!

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it was the first GM