A first time Grandmaster Titled Arena winner and Nakamura's forbidden platform.

@NoJoke said in #21:
> Any charity that thinks they have competitors is a bad charity, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that they aren't a charity at all.
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> The point of a charity is not to raise money, that's called a business. If your charity feeds the poor, other people feeding the poor should be your allies, not your enemies.

Charities compete in terms of resources (as @piazzai pointed out), effectivness, influence or even ideology. Lichess is a charity that aims to promote online chess. Another charity might promote primitivism and encourage people not to use computers and smartphones. That's a competition. You could argue that it doesn't necessarily imply a bad spirit and that interesting things could come out of cooperating and joining the effort. In some cases, yes. You can promote chess offline too. In other cases, there could be nothing to share and both charities would have completely different visions for the world.

Good post. I'm happy to see that even guys with Chesscom contracts like playing on Lichess sometimes. Of course I understand that if they want the sponsors they should follow their contracts.

Super interesting article, and I loved the author's sense of humor!

Jeez, shit like this really makes me want Chess.com to just burn.

@Bored_2_Death said in #7:
> If Hikaru’s contract actually doesn’t allow him to play on lichees then what will happen?

..... Danny Rensch's fragile little ego says ouchie

What is the marketcap of Chess.com/?

Big props to Lichess founders for providing free chess globally when they could've gotten a paycheck. Goodness exists in the world!

I really tried chess.com couple of times but it's like a website which is developed like especially for NOT to enjoy chess. They're trying to renew it but it's really awful. Even tho if they give me platinium ultra mega membership forever, I wouldn' play there.

Lichess is a masterpiece as web development. Chess.com is like a torture for me. I think they would loose at least %50 of members to lichess if peep have known lichess. Unfortunately there are lot still doesn't even know that lichess exists.

I left chess.com about half a year ago. At the time I still had 9 months worth of diamond membership, but I just closed my account and said bye bye. Did it for a variety of reasons. I don't like that company, both from a technical and business point of view.

Actually WWF and Greenpeace do badmouth each other ...

@piazzai #29 obviously he didnt mean conpetition in the literal sense, maybe you should try reading between the lines before whipping out sociology papers