Why should You get a chess.com membership

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BigBrain714 wrote:
baddogno wrote:

There are college chess scholarships.

I'm 10 years old

First read.

Logical Chess: Move By Move
Irving Chernev
1957
ISBN-13: 978-0671211356

I'm sure there's updated algebraic notation version.

When I was 10 years old in 1980, I solved the Rubik's cube on my own. No books, no Youtube videos.

When I was 9, I made my first Chinese Chess set out of bottle caps and a paper bag. That is the greatest chess set in the world.

Let me give you an advice. It's actually not my advice.

Arnold Schwarzenegger said: You can have a membership to best gym in the world. But lifting a weight is lifting a weight, and nobody can do that for you.

When you grow up you can see gyms like:

Planet Fitness, $133/year.

OneLife Fitness, $400/year (this is the kind of gym Arnold was talking about.)

Equinox: $2,000/year.

All that is non-sense. With $400, you can have everything you need for ever.

This is actually how Arnold Schwarzenegger used to work out, at Venice Beach (on the beach, not inside a gym).

There is one thing in this world that can't be bought, and it's the most important thing. Your effort and your ingenuity. Alright that's 2 things.

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BigBrain714 wrote:
baddogno wrote:

There are college chess scholarships.

I'm 10 years old

Here's your first task. I've got the ingenuity, you do the effort.

Download Chessmaster 3000 for DOS. Use DOSshell and DOSbox. All free.

Find a pdf version of Logical Chess: Move By Move - Irving Chernev online.

There, that's your first task, Grasshopper.

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No ads and vacation days so you never time out of games.

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long_quach wrote:
BigBrain714 wrote:
baddogno wrote:

There are college chess scholarships.

I'm 10 years old

Here's your first task. I've got the ingenuity, you do the effort.

Download Chessmaster 3000 for DOS. Use DOSshell and DOSbox. All free.

Find a pdf version of Logical Chess: Move By Move - Irving Chernev online.

There, that's your first task, Grasshopper.

Why do you download 20+ years old program (approx rated 2300- 2500) when there is 3600 rated Stockfish for free.

 

With that massive rating difference, chessmaster 3000 need approx x1000 time odds to get the quality of Stockfish.

 

I mean 1000 seconds of thinking by chessmaster is equavilent to 1 second of Stockfish.

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drmrboss wrote:

Why do you download 20+ years old program (approx rated 2300- 2500) when there is 3600 rated Stockfish for free.

Playing ability is not what I use Chessmaster 3000 for. CM 3000 comes with loaded features, that's it's hallmark.

For example:

converting to long algebraic.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/pgn-editor-7

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You can get pgn export , inport from any GUI such as Arena. And they can offer much more features that you even dont know.

 

http://www.playwitharena.de/

 

Telling others to use 20 years old technology is like telling them to buy your 20- year- old nokia phone because you dont know how good current iphone/ samsung phone is.

 

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The main reason to get membership is for the lessons! If you are a beginner or master there is really good content that is well presented. Lessons usually have a video (often presented by a GM) and then challenges relating to what you have learned.

Also when you play a game you get analysis after showing your mistakes You can then click to retry parts of the game to improve with better moves.

Totally worth it

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long_quach wrote:
BigBrain714 wrote:
baddogno wrote:

There are college chess scholarships.

I'm 10 years old

Here's your first task. I've got the ingenuity, you do the effort.

Download Chessmaster 3000 for DOS. Use DOSshell and DOSbox. All free.

Find a pdf version of Logical Chess: Move By Move - Irving Chernev online.

There, that's your first task, Grasshopper.

Or why not use the tech of the day? And why be condescending to a 10 year old?

If I was his dad I would get him a membership and encourage him perhaps

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drmrboss wrote:

You can get pgn export , inport from any GUI such as Arena. And they can offer much more features that you even dont know.

 

http://www.playwitharena.de/

 

Telling others to use 20 years old technology is like telling them to buy your 20- year- old nokia phone because you dont know how good current iphone/ samsung phone is.

 

Ok, here's a contest. A real one.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/pgn-editor-7

Translate from algebraic to long algebraic. (Do you even know what long algebraic is?)

Let me see you do it.

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Please tell me what is the point is using outdated 

1. e2- e4 wheras the modern recording system use simplify and better notation 1. e4

 

It is non sense and pointless to me and I wont reply any more to your trolling.

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Because it's cheap and everything becomes unlimited (I was 800 before my membership now I'm 1300 in around every time control I play on!

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drmrboss wrote:

Please tell me what is the point is using outdated 

1. e2- e4 wheras the modern recording system use simplify and better notation 1. e4

 

It is non sense and pointless to me and I wont reply any more to your trolling.

Quit it with the troll name calling.

It's a real request.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/pgn-editor-7

Let me see if your modern software can do it.

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long_quach wrote:
drmrboss wrote:

Please tell me what is the point is using outdated 

1. e2- e4 wheras the modern recording system use simplify and better notation 1. e4

 

It is non sense and pointless to me and I wont reply any more to your trolling.

Quit it with the troll name calling.

It's a real request.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/pgn-editor-7

Let me see if your modern software can do it.

Did I name call you? What name? I merely commented on your behaviour toward a 10 year old who asked a question and not for a mission. Are you angry at the sky too?

(you didn't even quote my comment)

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matt-black wrote:
long_quach wrote:
drmrboss wrote:

Please tell me what is the point is using outdated 

1. e2- e4 wheras the modern recording system use simplify and better notation 1. e4

 

It is non sense and pointless to me and I wont reply any more to your trolling.

Quit it with the troll name calling.

It's a real request.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/pgn-editor-7

Let me see if your modern software can do it.

Did I name call you? What name? I merely commented on your behaviour toward a 10 year old who asked a question and not for a mission. Are you angry at the sky too?

drmrboss called me a troll.

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How dare he!

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DrSpudnik wrote:

How dare he!

Especially when he does not know what he is talking about.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/how-do-i-analyze-games?page=2#comment-48564888

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AboardGreyhound wrote:
BigBrain714 wrote:
baddogno wrote:

There are college chess scholarships.

I'm 10 years old

So what, I know someone that got an MIT scholarship in MIDDLE SCHOOL

MIT doesn't give scholarships for academics.

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can i have diamond membership people's opinions?

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My dad wouldn’t give me diamond until I got over 1500 uscf.

However, he was perfectly happy to buy chess books, which I ingested and then I became a 1600 uscf. 

Now I have diamond membership, but you should show your parents you are willing to improve by reading the Chess books and stuff first.