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Chess.com reaches 200 million members (techcrunch.com)
submitted 19 hours ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/games@sh.itjust.works
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[–] vala@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Lichess

[–] Sandal6823@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Holy hell

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 10 points 12 hours ago

All the homies hate chess.c*m

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Holy hell!

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 23 points 18 hours ago

LiChess is what should be abounding.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

chesscom bad. lichess good.

[–] orochi02@feddit.org 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Im ootl so Why Chess com bad but lichess good?

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 hours ago

lichess is free and open source, and has tons of great features that chesscom makes you pay for.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Huh, wouldn’t have thought number of chess players would be growing.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 29 minutes ago

Why not? The Queen's Gambit launched it into mainstream, and there are a number of high quality chess YouTubers and Twitch streamers. I think chess has always been something people respect, and now it's more accessible than ever.

To pair with this, there are new formats that keep things interesting and watchable, from shorter time controls (rapid = 10 min, blitz = 3 min, bullet = 1 min) to chess 960/Fischer random (shuffle back row pieces. Chess engines are also essentially free, so you can analyze your games to improve, without needing a coach or a bunch of books. It's pretty reasonable to go from knowing nothing about the game to being reasonably good in a few months, you just need to memorize a few openings, do puzzles, and analyze your games to pick up on patterns.

So yeah, chess is having a bit of a moment, and it's really fun IMO.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 0 points 17 hours ago

Not including Abigail Thorn.