Anyone here playing on Chess.com?
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I haven't played Chess in over forty years, I think. Just started playing online at chess.com and loving every minute. I'm not very good but I am learning and having fun. It's a nice break from the MMOs, World of Tanks, and first person shooters.
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I haven't played Chess in over forty years, I think. Just started playing online at chess.com and loving every minute. I'm not very good but I am learning and having fun. It's a nice break from the MMOs, World of Tanks, and first person shooters.
I am on lichess occasionaly... More face-to-face with my son... I am still winning, but he is getting good...
"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." ― Gerald Weinberg
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I haven't played Chess in over forty years, I think. Just started playing online at chess.com and loving every minute. I'm not very good but I am learning and having fun. It's a nice break from the MMOs, World of Tanks, and first person shooters.
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I haven't played Chess in over forty years, I think. Just started playing online at chess.com and loving every minute. I'm not very good but I am learning and having fun. It's a nice break from the MMOs, World of Tanks, and first person shooters.
I play competitive chess IRL regularly. I love
lichess.org. It is 100 % free of advertising and constantly nagging "once-in-a-lifetime" offers. The GUI is clean, slick, and loads much faster than that unmentionable site. Try it."If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I haven't played Chess in over forty years, I think. Just started playing online at chess.com and loving every minute. I'm not very good but I am learning and having fun. It's a nice break from the MMOs, World of Tanks, and first person shooters.
I enjoy chess on chess.com and on lichess.org I am usually surprised at the analysis after the game where I see moves that I might-have-done-if-only. That's where most of my learning happens, seeing my mistakes, especially the subtle ones. (Blunders I usually realize right away!) I feel that I'm getting better (my ratings go up gradually). I doubt I'll ever excel, but it's fun, plus it's like exercise for concentration.
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I play competitive chess IRL regularly. I love
lichess.org. It is 100 % free of advertising and constantly nagging "once-in-a-lifetime" offers. The GUI is clean, slick, and loads much faster than that unmentionable site. Try it."If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
I am going to check this site out this weekend, for sure. I have seen it mentioned in other forums too. I think they don't have any bots to play/practice with and chess.com does, but a lot of it is the same. :thumbsup:
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I enjoy chess on chess.com and on lichess.org I am usually surprised at the analysis after the game where I see moves that I might-have-done-if-only. That's where most of my learning happens, seeing my mistakes, especially the subtle ones. (Blunders I usually realize right away!) I feel that I'm getting better (my ratings go up gradually). I doubt I'll ever excel, but it's fun, plus it's like exercise for concentration.
The analysis is amazing, at least for beginners like me. I try to play bots for now, unassisted, and then see how many blunders and mistakes I made. nice.
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I haven't played Chess in over forty years, I think. Just started playing online at chess.com and loving every minute. I'm not very good but I am learning and having fun. It's a nice break from the MMOs, World of Tanks, and first person shooters.
Yes. invite me as pk06 - willing to play a game. (allow 5-7 days/move, not 10-minute games). Peter.
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I haven't played Chess in over forty years, I think. Just started playing online at chess.com and loving every minute. I'm not very good but I am learning and having fun. It's a nice break from the MMOs, World of Tanks, and first person shooters.
I've been playing since 2016 and am currently in the grueling 35,000 player 2023 Daily Chess.com Tourney. 1 day per move, play 11 others twice in your group, and only the top player moves to the next round. Oh well... made it to round 2 anyway! Highly recommend chess.com. They have had issues this year on handling the swell of new players as their database had became overwhelmed quite a few times. It seems they've added the firepower now to handle most of it.
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I haven't played Chess in over forty years, I think. Just started playing online at chess.com and loving every minute. I'm not very good but I am learning and having fun. It's a nice break from the MMOs, World of Tanks, and first person shooters.
I picked it up about 3 years ago after decades away from the game. I rarely play a game on there (when I do it's against a bot), but I do my free puzzles each day and it's improved my game immensely (I also watch some YT creators). I'm certainly not a 2250 player, but my puzzle rating is that high; it's easier when you know the critical point of the game. By the way, people totally didn't understand the cheating scandal last year. Average people, even some top-level chess players, assumed one had to have a method to get the best move at every turn: either some secret access to an engine or an associate with an engine and a way to signal the move. Cheating could be as easy as the associate sending a signal (visual, coughing, or buzzing his pants) that tells the player he is currently facing a puzzle situation: that there is a move or series of moves that wins the game (winning a piece can win the game at those high levels).
