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[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

chess.com mentioned doggirl-growl

if you like chess you should only use lichess.org btw

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

i have not followed chess drama for sometime. i agree but why are we hating chess.com again?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

it's a for-profit website that tries to do everything it can to get you to subscribe to a premium service (certainly sells your data too) whereas lichess has everything free and open forever

[-] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

honestly i think half the chess.com evaluation is in their domain. i mean how much did they pay to secure that?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

an eye watering sum presumably lol

[-] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

that's a low bar for me honestly, anything above 50 dollars is eye watering in this economy

[-] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/how-i-got-the-chess-com-domain-name

TL;DR - I got the Chess.com domain name out of bankruptcy for $55,000 in 2005

[-] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

yep my eyes are watering alright. but it must be worth a lot more nowadays i image it would be easily x10 or more.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago

Because lichess is open source and maintained by volunteers.

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