MauLotu wrote:
Just my 2 cents
Is it that titled players, get the diamond membership? They also get the nice red title badge/icon for their name, which is a lot more respected anyway.
I was looking at the titled players only tournament and all of them had the diamond behind the name. And felt like watching commercial, which is ok, but the logic is same like conjoined twin queens - always have 2, move together, never one... and others can look with their 0 badges at their name or pay to have at least one... (or become titled)...
Titled players receive free lifetime diamond membership: https://support.chess.com/article/661-does-chesscom-offer-benefits-for-elite-or-titled-players
Just my 2 cents
Is it that titled players, get the diamond membership? They also get the nice red title badge/icon for their name, which is a lot more respected anyway.
I was looking at the titled players only tournament and all of them had the diamond behind the name. And felt like watching commercial, which is ok, but the logic is same like conjoined twin queens - always have 2, move together, never one... and others can look with their 0 badges at their name or pay to have at least one... (or become titled).
Paying in chess to gain something, to change name into Chris Fisher Notfisher or something sounds fishy. Why rubbish the screens of millions of users billions of times with the double signs (diamond and IM/GM/eg? Any not good player could buy the unrespected diamond sign like they bought the pixels, but why throw that dirt at the back of titled players? OK, maybe the site gains, but maybe it doesn't.
GM Hikaru Diamond vs IM EricRosen Diamond... and M Diamond won.
#it's kind of ok that the all have M in the title, but as a person who had been coding also, it hurts to see that we have people with title not yet master NYM and have NM, IM etc... Why not just have G, I, N. It's like we have General Motors GM, but then we also have Ford Motors FM and Panther Bicycles NM (no motors). Similarly we dont add brown icon next to every name who doesn't have title.
Could someone ask the titled players if they want one more diamond, or one diamond removed, or really like the one behind their name...