Why is Chess.com growing so quickly?

Anyone want to ask ChatGPT why Chess.com has experienced an exponential growth in daily user activity & accounts within such a short period of time?

Why not ask the AI to explain how "beginner" players suddenly populating the site due to a sudden increase in interest in chess are breaking into the top 99% level of chess in such a short period of time?  Is chess that easy?  What is the real reason for the exponential growth in user activity on chess.com?

That is an excellent point...  

I would be interested in seeing how an active AI developed by an international company with resources to put behind AI development would answer the questions we are posing.

The truth is that this is a very serious issue because something causing a mass increase in daily usage and resource drain... is it increased interest in chess? this means that something is actively causing the site to fail and crash due to massive daily user activity.  Intentional or otherwise.   If it is a mass influx of new users worldwide who are suddenly just deciding hey I want to open a chess.com account today and play 100 games non stop for a hundred days straight then fine.  But Chess.com should be able to determine whether that is true or not and identify with pinpoint accuracy why numbers increasing exponentially at any given timeframe.  

There has to be something that can be identified as the real reason.  Identify it, then justify that argument with supporting facts available.  make the logical connection between a beginning hypothesis and the conclusion with details stated throughout so that anyone reviewing it can cite and follow the reasoning.  

I'm just saying that chess.com has not done that and that might be the reason why no one is saying what is really causing the site to crash.  How could it be simply attributed to only increased interest in chess.  that is clearly unsubstantiated and refutably false.  

show us the proof of this statement.

I believe chess players at a top level are intellectuals, even intellectually 1% types at the highest levels of chess ability.

Given this, I believe that we deserve a legitimate answer to this serious question.  what is really driving the mass exponential growth of daily users activity on chess.com?

A computer could potentially recommend something to you, are you saying that you would blindly and religiously do something because it recommends it to you often every day?  If so, then disconnect from the internet and reassess yourself.  Because that's a dangerous path

where is the actual proof of this

Is it fair to say that lot of people around the world are intellectually lazy and lack the cognitive ability to make cohesive arguments supported by real life facts.   with social media allowing for commenting by even the most non intellectual beings among us, it opens the barrier to entry by enabling just about anyone to comment and make statements regardless of the truth of the statements being made.  Is this a true statement or is it refutable?

How many 8 years do you see...  1-10 or 1000 or more

seeing 10  such 8 year olds going on chess.com doesn't prove anything about the popularity of chess.  one would see 10 such 8 year olds reading chess books and getting a lot better at chess than those going on chess.com just to look around.  

Do we have the ChatGPT answers yet...  anyone

Im quite curious to see what the AI has to say about this topic.  I believe that I have provided sufficient information for it to provide a cognizant response or logical train of thought.  

What is "way more"  Quantify it.

If you want to develop intellectually then you need to be able to reason and prove your statements

natural progressive & linear growth of chess is not a bad thing....  

sounds like gatekeeping to me

I think people are tired of meaningless games with fancy graphics, but with no thought involved. It's much more satisfying to be rewarded for good strategic judgements.  As for people not being intellectual or having enough patience, it makes it easier when there are different levels and time constraints you can choose. So a beginner can play against opponents close to their own rating and expect to win half the time, or if they don't have patience to analyse complex positions they can play a rapid game where the moves are quick and intuitive.