WHY DOES MEMBERSHIP COST SO MUCH
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CleverZoe
Jan 10, 2024
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#1
why does a membership cost so much!!!???
Chess.com needs to make profit somewhere.
Jan 12, 2024
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#3
Honestly 90% of us just want unlimited games review which only comes in an exclusive bundles of many other useless items with $13
Chess.com could probably double their paid subscribers if they cut their rates across the board by 50% and offer real discounts for yearly subscriptions. It’s that type of business philosophy that made a famous wine maker rich by making it affordable to everyone.
Feb 25, 2026
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StickerFish1 wrote:
Honestly 90% of us just want unlimited games review which only comes in an exclusive bundles of many other useless items with $13
You do get unlimited game review. It's called self-analysis. 
Feb 25, 2026
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Yodelator wrote:
Chess.com could probably double their paid subscribers if they cut their rates across the board by 50% and offer real discounts for yearly subscriptions. It’s that type of business philosophy that made a famous wine maker rich by making it affordable to everyone.
Prior to September of 2021, memberships were lower. Prices increased for the first time in 14 years then.
The site does periodically have specials as well
Feb 25, 2026
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#8
Oh absolutely, how unreasonable of us to question why clicking pieces on a board now costs the same as a streaming subscription. Next thing you know we will be paying per pawn move.
Jokes apart, I genuinely feel the pricing could be more accessible. Not everyone can justify spending that much on an online platform, no matter how good it is. Loving chess should not feel like a premium feature.
Mar 1, 2026
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#9
Zidanefre wrote:
StickerFish1 wrote:
Honestly 90% of us just want unlimited games review which only comes in an exclusive bundles of many other useless items with $13
You do get unlimited game review. It's called self-analysis.
It's harder than game review, this doesn't classify moves and also doesn't give you insights about your move
Mar 1, 2026
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#10
Snarkfish wrote:
Zidanefre wrote:
StickerFish1 wrote:
Honestly 90% of us just want unlimited games review which only comes in an exclusive bundles of many other useless items with $13
You do get unlimited game review. It's called self-analysis.
It's harder than game review, this doesn't classify moves and also doesn't give you insights about your move
You don't need a machine to classify moves for you, when you can classify them quite easily yourself (net change in eval bar) and you genuinely do not need to pay 120 dollars a year to have chess.com tell you that you made 0 brilliant moves and 17 best moves and 5 excellent moves and so on, and even less so to have a poorly developed AI tell you factually misleading information about the reasoning for desired moves.
