@mathyxxx said in #72:
> Lichess FTW or for Life! Once I sort my streaming issues, I will go full time for Lichess. Chess.com is just dirty money grab, Chess24 offers good content for their buck, but their software sucks ass. Lichess is smooth and free! Love it or hate it, this place right here is the best! Once it was FICS, now my #1 is Lichess. I get it if say Chessable want to get paid by membership but playing all the cheaters on chess.com/? The barstands are trying to squeeze a buck even from chesskid app! Chess.com is sickening!
I know chess.com is worse, but I think it is unfair to call all the people cheaters
> Lichess FTW or for Life! Once I sort my streaming issues, I will go full time for Lichess. Chess.com is just dirty money grab, Chess24 offers good content for their buck, but their software sucks ass. Lichess is smooth and free! Love it or hate it, this place right here is the best! Once it was FICS, now my #1 is Lichess. I get it if say Chessable want to get paid by membership but playing all the cheaters on chess.com/? The barstands are trying to squeeze a buck even from chesskid app! Chess.com is sickening!
I know chess.com is worse, but I think it is unfair to call all the people cheaters
@The-Dope-Pope said in #82:
> I know chess.com is worse, but I think it is unfair to call all the people cheaters
Don't call all of them cheaters. Nope. In comparison though, I hardly ever felt cheated on Lichess but on chess.com, there was (in longer time control) around 10% of accounts banned (on average) before each tournament ended. That is quite a number, don't you think?
On chesskid, there are engine users on 1800+ almost regular, move for move. No way to report them or ban them.
> I know chess.com is worse, but I think it is unfair to call all the people cheaters
Don't call all of them cheaters. Nope. In comparison though, I hardly ever felt cheated on Lichess but on chess.com, there was (in longer time control) around 10% of accounts banned (on average) before each tournament ended. That is quite a number, don't you think?
On chesskid, there are engine users on 1800+ almost regular, move for move. No way to report them or ban them.
@Maatalkko said in #74:
> If Lichess allowed multiple premove and supported bughouse like chess.com does, that would take away the last two remaining reasons to play on that site.
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> Chess.com's whole interface and aesthetic is so busy and clunky compared to what we are getting for free!
Bughouse has bugs on chess.com, literally. Good old FICS was super simple and Bughouse was superb. I wouldn't like to get addicted to Bughouse again. Chess.com can keep it
> If Lichess allowed multiple premove and supported bughouse like chess.com does, that would take away the last two remaining reasons to play on that site.
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> Chess.com's whole interface and aesthetic is so busy and clunky compared to what we are getting for free!
Bughouse has bugs on chess.com, literally. Good old FICS was super simple and Bughouse was superb. I wouldn't like to get addicted to Bughouse again. Chess.com can keep it
The only part of this I take issue with is I think Hikaru does get paid by chess dot com.
The only part of this I take issue with is I think Hikaru does get paid by chess dot com.
I've been trying to figure this one myself out of curiosity. He seems to want to play on Lichess and has been really impressed with it by stating numerous things Lichess does better than Chess.com, but there's definitely some weirdness at times when it comes up despite the statements saying he can. I have a few theories (that probably aren't true) though:
-He has to stream so-and-so many hours on chess.com per week/month and other sites would cut into that time in the chess schedule, making him overwork and burn out.
-He needs permission to do so. Sometimes there's clauses in contracts where if both parties agree on something, they can make exceptions even in the case of exclusivity.
-He can stream Lichess, but because he gets a good chunk of money from the Chess.com sponsorship, he may feel somewhat bad for not using Chess.com.
-He is not supposed to, but does so on occasion anyway because he knows Chess.com knows he's a valuable partner and they wouldn't want to jeopardize it by giving him trouble.
It is indeed possible that his contract allows him to jump platforms any time though. Different people may get different contracts than those previously reported as there usually isn't a single contract given out. Plus things may have changed since others talked about their contracts. For instance: Forcing exclusivity tends to be looked down on as being controlling (Even Twitch is considering loosening that), so maybe Chess.com's PR team loosened that up later. He doesn't seem to be able to discuss the contract publicly though. Meaning unless that changes or something gets leaked, it's all just educated guesswork.
-He has to stream so-and-so many hours on chess.com per week/month and other sites would cut into that time in the chess schedule, making him overwork and burn out.
-He needs permission to do so. Sometimes there's clauses in contracts where if both parties agree on something, they can make exceptions even in the case of exclusivity.
-He can stream Lichess, but because he gets a good chunk of money from the Chess.com sponsorship, he may feel somewhat bad for not using Chess.com.
-He is not supposed to, but does so on occasion anyway because he knows Chess.com knows he's a valuable partner and they wouldn't want to jeopardize it by giving him trouble.
It is indeed possible that his contract allows him to jump platforms any time though. Different people may get different contracts than those previously reported as there usually isn't a single contract given out. Plus things may have changed since others talked about their contracts. For instance: Forcing exclusivity tends to be looked down on as being controlling (Even Twitch is considering loosening that), so maybe Chess.com's PR team loosened that up later. He doesn't seem to be able to discuss the contract publicly though. Meaning unless that changes or something gets leaked, it's all just educated guesswork.
@Blitzoid said in #27:
> Capitalism makes us all so free...
To be fair, he was free to not sign the contract if he did not like the terms
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This was an excelent titled arena and I loved his stream. Let's hope he plays the next one too. Hearing the slack notification mid-stream was absolutely hilarious
> Capitalism makes us all so free...
To be fair, he was free to not sign the contract if he did not like the terms
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This was an excelent titled arena and I loved his stream. Let's hope he plays the next one too. Hearing the slack notification mid-stream was absolutely hilarious
Daniel Rensch en particular es un imbécil, solo es simpático para la cámara. que bueno que Naka juegue en lichess!
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