It is clear that daily chess is losing strength on the chess.com platform. Until a few years ago it was its main base, but it slowly lost followers and was replaced by live chess as the main source of activity.

Gone are the days when matches between clubs in this modality were massive. Today even the most important daily chess leagues (such as the 1WL, for example) are adapting to this panorama, which shows no signs of changing but quite the opposite.

Before this year's season began, Estudiantes de La Plata warned about the risks of maintaining the minimum number of players required. Almost a year later, the panorama we predicted at that time was fulfilled: of the 55 matches in Division 1, 25 were not played because one of the two opponents (or both) did not reach 15 players. This represents 45.45% of the games aborted due to lack of players, almost half.

Our club believes that the time has come for this league to adapt to the new reality of daily chess so as not to lose competitiveness. Therefore, we reiterate the proposal we offered at the time to reduce the minimum number of players per game to 10 in Division 1. We could even complete it with 7 players in Division 2, while maintaining the 5 in Division 3.

We are convinced that with this proposal the GFL will return to the normal levels of games defined by absences, which had always been in minimal quantities and within the limits of what is tolerable.
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