#Danny & Erik Questions
solemn pilot
chess
shy mango
Were there any cheating scandals? Any notable bans?
solemn pilot
What does a pawn do?
dark ether
how does the knight move
dim hatch
ches
shy mango
Will custom themes be something to happen in the future?
keen hatch
How did you build a trusting player base
torn rapids
rancid pine
how does the knight move
void wing
Why isn't en passant forced yet
languid charm
How did you get the domain chess.com ?
oooh thats a good one
solemn pilot
Why does Hans Niemen look like that video game guy that the 14 year old white girls like?
strong viper
how did you get the idea of building a relatively dominant chess site from scratch(and probably the first chess site)?
mystic wren
is king e2 a good move
dark ether
what made you wanna play chess when you first started
boreal hedge
glad warren
Keep them coming guys! 🙂 ❤️
earnest shale
What was the biggest day-to-day user growth recorded (if track is kept of such statistics) on the site, and was it a result of some online event?
sacred sierra
hello Best practice for beginner chess player
grave valve
solemn pilot
What is the max amount of moves you can make in a chess game without it ending in a draw?
shy mango
How many times has e4 been played in the entire sites history 😭
dense python
What is the most amount of peices you need for a checkmate?
brazen trail
How does the duck move?
rancid pine
What is the max amount of moves you can make in a chess game without it ending i...
5,949 moves
hollow halo
How were the moves for each chess piece created?
dark ether
how did you come up with the idea for a digital chess game
misty kernel
Who are the guys in the videos when the server is having troubles? They seems like really fun people!
My kid loves chess.com, and it's really helped him with sportsmanship. How do you deal with your own blunders and mistakes?
golden osprey
How is chess played in Ohio?
dense python
What is the procedure which one should follow while analysing for moves in a real game and how much time should one spend on it?
earnest shale
By the way, can any mod add a bit of a slowmode so that people do not spam random stuff and we actually get to see legitimate suggestions?
gentle oar
When does Chess 3 come out?
fathom torrent
Did alternative sites have an effect on you when starting with chess.com? How did they effect
foggy epoch
Who came up with the first idea for the website?
shy mango
What’s the creators elo
fiery garden
Can AI or machine learning be used to strengthening the anti-cheat system for chess.com?
solemn pilot
Why does the engine think my brilliant queen, 2 rook , 2 bishop and 1 knight sacrifice is a blunder? Is it a glitch?
rancid pine
Why does the engine think my brilliant queen, 2 rook , 2 bishop and 1 knight sac...
no
strong viper
yes
shy mango
When is your go to time to play chess
rancid pine
When is your go to time to play chess
3 am 😱
dense python
Is starting off as a chess streamer a career which one should invest in or should one focus on getting better at chess first?
rugged viper
During the early days of the site, what was the strongest bot available to play against?
cerulean kraken
Can this question be in the video?
old rivet
How are you?
shy mango
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golden osprey
dayum
shy mango
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Show this on vid i worked so hard
tender egret
What in your opinion is the best opening
dense python
If you could add or remove any one rule in chess then what would it be?
mild glacier
I've heard of an integer overflow error that happened back in June 2017. What can you tell us about that?
dense python
Why does my queen blunder,2nd rook blunder,7th pawn blunder and bishop blundrr count as a mistake?
old rivet
What is your opinion on chess variants and how do you think it will contribute to the popularity of chess?
shy mango
I did this like a month ago when i had nitro 😭
solemn pilot
Why's my chess engine telling me to sacrifice a queen? Is that a bad move?
69th messagge
golden osprey
nice
steady steppe
dense python
Should stalling be allowed in chess even if it is unethical in some cases?
frank haven
as someone who is deep in the AI rabbit hole, the debit of alphazero made me consider picking up chess. Do you feel that the "human" component in the game of chess is dying as the age of machines has come upon us?
This question aside, several commentators on youtube have compared alphazero's playstyle to that of the "romantic era" of chess with legends such as Paul Morphy. I would love to hear what you guys think about this as i am quite new to the game myself 😄
solemn pilot
Should stalling be allowed in chess even if it is unethical in some cases?
No, if you stall you are garbage
shy mango
Is cheating bad
tender egret
Is cheating bad
yes.
rancid pine
have you guys ever banned or punished stalling/ bm?
golden osprey
cagnus
dense python
Does on the board training make any major or minor improvements in your game?
solemn pilot
Should I keep procrastinating schoolwork to get 900 elo?
barren timber
why did Danny stop doing live sessions? back in 2010-2012 those were my jam
dense python
What is the reasoning behind rating based matchmaking in Arena tournaments?
rancid pine
how to move pawn
night pond
If you could go back to when you first developed the platform knowing what you know now, what would you change (if any)?
restive patrol
What type of Christmas features are you going to add?
dense python
Do chess players have any social media influence like football players? Is it a choice or is it something which one must work on?
sweet vine
crude pumice
dense python
What was the inspiration behind the solo chess practice feature?
round egret
What are the most amazing draws in Chess history?
restive patrol
How much focus do you have on expanding the game of chess?
dense python
Are there any future development plans for leagues? I remember hearing about a tournament in Legends league when it was released but nothing was heard of after that
bleak geyser
thoughts on lichess?
round egret
What is the most complex game ever played in chess history?
dense python
Why do you feel that most adults don't know how to play chess or have never tried it? How can one share the joy of the game?
warped hull
how might high level bots be built for or approach variants, such as fog of war?Variants bring completely different variables into chess.
soft bough
will there ever be a checkers.com
dense python
How can free to play users check whether a person is cheating or not if they can only use the game review feature for one match per day? Sometimes its sheer luck sometimes it is cheating. Are there any plans to help one figure that out?
worn wedge
How to reduce the amount of mistakes and blunders that you make?
soft bough
why does the bishop have that stupid line going through it
dense python
Does chess.com plan to explore other domains as well such as journalism,magazines etc on a greater scale?
wide violet
soft bough
will chess ever have a battlepass or in game currency like my favorite non-chess video game fortnite
hidden wadi
What's the best way to rank up elo fast to the certain skill level you're in in chess.com?
frosty spire
when will be chess 2 released?
soft bough
will you guys ever add a campaign to chess? i love chess but i feel like its lacking in terms of story and i would really like some chess lore.
proud umbra
glacial rover
What is the plan if chess ever gets solved?
hasty olive
hidden wadi
Could you guys by any chance make it so that in mobile pass & play, whenever auto flip is turned off, the pieces to rotate 180 degrees depending on the turn, in order for it to be easier to look at when their's two people on the opposite sides of the device?
(the pieces, independently from the board)
cerulean burrow
dense python
How do I visualize the chess board better in my head and remember the square names?
sleek spruce
Do we have any updates on the partnership with Play Magnus?
soft bough
can you guys add a new chess piece its been a few hundred years
and if you guys need to remove one i say remove the bishop
uneven pine
minor bear
What was the hardest hurdle to get over in the success of chess.com? Any point where you thought of throwing in the towel?
peak kestrel
Are the puzzles made by humans, or do you have some code that can make them automatically?
At the very beginning of chess.com, did you think completely on your own, or did you inspire by some older page?
oak needle
What are the main landmarks of chess.com ? How has is mainly contributed to the world of chess and its community ?
glacial rover
How did the chess.com servers and website hold up during the start of the pandemic boom?
little stone
tired apex
limber swift
what variants are chess.com originals and where did the inspiration for them come from?
safe rain
When Lichess was made, were you worried about the competition from a business point of view?
compact sparrow
Will there be in the future FIDE like named titles in chess,com for only roleplay, aethestic purposes, and sense of achievement for players without a real title?
crude mesa
When were Chess.com Memberships introduced?
What happened to death matches?
Why was echess renamed to Daily Chess?
What is the goal Chess.com is trying to achieve?
sinful path
How has the design of Chess.com evolved over the years?
What is the history of the Chess app specifically?
How have you come up with new features and ultimately decided to develop and implement them? On that note, how have you determined when it's time to remove a feature?
crude mesa
How did Twitch partnership in 2017 improve the site in its content?
cinder hemlock
What was the initial value proposition in mind when creating chess.com?
What was the most difficult feature to integrate into chess.com thus far?
Tell us about the moment where you felt you had "made it" and started investing more time and resources into chess.com.
With all the success of chess.com, have you accomplished your initial vision? If so, what do you perceive as your next focus?
What was your favorite aspect/feature you developed on chess.com that makes you the most proud/satisfied?
sinful path
At what point did you decide to develop your state of the art anti-cheat system and what prompted that decision?
stiff moon
What was the key to make chess a more accessible/popular game so it became the platform it is today?
sinful path
Does Chess.com have a mission? If so, tell us about how it has influenced some of your harder/less popular decisions.
How has Chess.com's relationship with FIDE developed as the site has grown?
crude mesa
At what point did you decide to develop your state of the art anti-cheat system ...
an add-on to this qn, was CAPS introduced before or after this?
simple violet
willow osprey
what was the worst match you had ever seen on your website? Or, what has been the worst thing to happen to your website during production and/or when the site was live?
soft bough
add a soundtrack to the game
hoary tinsel
are there any grandmaster employes ?
crude mesa
are there any grandmaster employes ?
yeah
timid pond
What are your guys plans for the future of chess.com this can mean domain wise , player wise or idea wise. I want to know from you guys !
Thank you
blazing crane
crude mesa
How did you guys get the chess.com url? Musta been hard 😅
They have a blog for that
round egret
What were major conflicts during development?
native ridge
How did the founders come up with the idea of chess.com as an online website? And did you expect that the player base would grow up to be this massive?
simple tangle
*How much people are rude in chess.com?
*Do chess.com give enough money to it's employer to live?
*When people started working in chess.com?
*Who was the first GM played in chess.com?
*What was age of Erik when he started making chess.com?
*How much money chess.com make in 2007?
*How much difference in chess.com before and now?
*Was chess.com was free in 2007?
*Why chess.com pawn is green ?
More questions will be soon
@glad warren
crude mesa
*How much people are rude in chess.com?
*Do chess.com give enough money to it's ...
*Why chess.com pawn is green ?
-https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/the-chess-com-logo-story
*Was chess.com was free in 2007?
There was no membership back then so yes ig
*How much people are rude in chess.com?
huh
simple tangle
*Why chess.com pawn is green ?
-https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/the-chess-com-lo...
Ah lol
cerulean kraken
Why is there a mistake in the first ever daily puzzle?
tall kettle
will we be able to see an event where top players compete for a particular prize in hyperbullet format?
plain token
neon delta
opal silo
How do you understand whether a person cheats or not?
uneven hemlock
What was the first puzzle ever created on chess.com?
Who analyzes our games on chess.com? I mean in game review. Is it stockfish or Komodo or something else?
sinful path
Who analyzes our games on chess.com? I mean in game review. Is it stockfish or K...
Stockfish
sinful path
Are u sure? Because to me it seems like Komodo
It says stockfish 15 in the analysis
uneven hemlock
It says stockfish 15 in the analysis
Oh.. I have never noticed that 💀💀
visual egret
What is your chess playstyle
carmine nimbus
What inspired you to create a chess website?
crude mesa
Why is there a mistake in the first ever daily puzzle?
True lmao
crude mesa
Who analyzes our games on chess.com? I mean in game review. Is it stockfish or K...
It’s your analysis settings
Default is Stockfish 15
The computers are Komodo because chess.con purchased it
What makes the Chess.com Community unique?
dense python
Who's was your most difficult opponent
quiet shale
What is the purpose of chess. com and what it involve for chess player to use the website?
stiff moon
What is the greatest achievement the chess.com company had?
What would you consider the breakthrough for the community to become as strong as it is today?
somber cloud
what advice do you have for young people aspiring to be a chess star?
thin ember
How has cheating prevention been changed/improved over time, and how good is it right now
jovial shell
Is it a horse or knight
simple tangle
Where was chess.com founded and why did it begin?
There is Blog about that
barren mauve
o
granite void
viral meteor
loud igloo
buoyant ocean
Do you think that there is a chance of stockfish objectively beating alphazero anytime in the future?
soft bough
Why hasnt chess won game of the year like bruh its been here for a thousand years but cant win ONE award
also remove bishops
and add a battle pass
balmy viper
why is chess
blissful storm
Do you think that there will ever be a time when chess will have been "solved" by a human?
Do you think it will ever be solved by a computer then?
Thats what I was wondering, where if played perfectly, you can at worst draw
sinful path
Checkers is far less complex than chess and it is not "solved" either
trail plume
Who decided that the world needed Chess.com and Where did you get the money to start it?
dense python
simple question but really, why did you think YOU needed to create a chess website?
nova sinew
rose coral
Why you decided to go with the name chess.com, why not PlayChess.com or take another name?
tiny zenith
Why did you get rid of Live Chess? Can we find higher rated players to challenge outside of tournaments?
All jokes aside, the arena idea sounds great.
tiny zenith
All jokes aside, the arena idea sounds great.
Without the cheating and fair play violations. I like the random rating part.
sinful path
Without the cheating and fair play violations. I like the random rating part.
How many people would actually use it though
tiny zenith
How many people would actually use it though
I think that a lot of people would be interested in playing against different rating brackets. Before Live Chess was removed, I challenged the best players I could find. CMs, GMs, IMs. Everybody above 2,000.
I actually have a win against a GM in bullet. He never moved, so it may not count. Still technically counts.
dense python
is bishop & pawn vs king a draw?
final jewel
they say chess played perfectly is a draw but I've never seen engines draw by insufficient material
is it possible for two engines to draw in that way?
delicate fulcrum
What features are you hoping to bring to the platform in the future?
crude mesa
why did you make chess.com so play-based when it used to be more like a forum?
thats an interesting question
Was Chess.com, upon the time of releasing live chess, the first to introduce online chess? What were its visions for the future by creating such a feature with live chess and echess
naive lily
How many games did you think you would have to manage simultaneously at the very beginning of the website? How many do you manage right now on average?
naive lily
is king e2 a good move
it is a Brilliancy
olive fulcrum
will the outcome of a chess match one day be determined by the first move?
drifting sinew
Will there be a possibility to train against a bot certain opening variants one day ? (We are limited to 31 different openings right now but we can only choose the bot difficulty, not the variant it'll play)
barren terrace
Where whould you see this company in the future like what is your gole for the future of this company?
hoary stirrup
Who is the founder of chess.com and what motivated him/her to start a website that teach about playing chess?
weary yoke
bright idol
Why did you want to make a chess website?
turbid gale
Checkers is far less complex than chess and it is not "solved" either
Checkers has been solved since 90s
hoary stirrup
Chess.com isn’t the only website about chess but it has become the most popular one. What is the secret behind this?
dense python
Will there be a duck chess tournament with a cash prize?
drowsy crow
will there be any new feature like limiting ourselves from playing limited games of a particular time format, (limit would be setup by ourself to not get addicted to bullet and not ruin our classical game)
eg only 1 bullet game in a day
buoyant egret
Why is en passant called en passant?
drowsy crow
Will anymore sports superstars play together in a chess match like Gordon Hayward is playing, to popularize the game of chess even more
will Danny ever become a GM? though Hess would still be a better commentator :'P
buoyant egret
will Levy ever become a GM?
rancid pine
will Levy ever become a GM?
He retired
ebon zealot
How to win with just king and root?
unborn falcon
With the internet and digital gaming growing beyond all imagination, how has chess.com remained relevant and forward thinking in its design and implementation?
tired apex
who was the first game of chess played on chess.com played between? not testing, a public game, and what was the outcome?
sand solstice
How much developer staff is involved in chesscom. What technologies have been used to create the site. Are there plans in the future to rewrite it to make it better?
young vector
How do you prevent cheaters from only cheating in one game, and is there a level of understanding beyond what the computer can provide when it comes to banning cheaters? (I know this wasn’t that well worded) Also, have you ever encountered an anomaly of a game that was reported but was proven not a cheater.
sinful path
Was there any advertising for the site upon launch?
native ridge
Will I become a IM?
native ridge
pls remove bishops i hate bishops
Elephants are rooks 😂😂
soft bough
Why am i so sad and lonely
dense python
Elephants are rooks 😂😂
Elephants are bishops
crude mesa
will there be any new feature like limiting ourselves from playing limited games...
there is in daily chess
tired apex
is it possible to beat the max level of stockfish (3200)?
blissful storm
i think he means a person
one thing I have noticed is that I can beat bots with ease like 600 points above me
teal solar
tired apex
How does the knight move?
crude mesa
How did you programme en passant?
blissful storm
How did you programme en passant?
its not that hard to program
wild bough
crude mesa
The video is out so this is irrelevant now
dense python
L movement for an L piece
strong viper
The video is out so this is irrelevant now
yes
soft bough
Will you add a chess battle pass
crude mesa
drowsy crow
why we can set the limit ourselves and not get addicted
i mean why not
what are you saying?
sorry
bruh while playing bullet, we dont know how fast the time goes on and .. i cant say what i want to
no what
you are not just getting my idea
i mean whats wrong with it
ok
crude mesa
Unless chess.con says you need premium to play more than 100 games a day
💀
It’s 12am for me so no
I’m just scrolling random stuff
Close
I live in Singapore
old rivet
Why is vertical castling not allowed
crude mesa
Why is vertical castling not allowed
it is allowed
As long as e8=R is played and the king has not been moved, and if there is no piece between the king and the rook with which castling is, the king is transferred from its original square two squares towards the rook on its original square, then that rook is transferred to the square the king has just crossed
and there has to be no piece attacking the way
lol
bruh no perms but k
old rivet
it is allowed
It was banned?
sand solstice
How did chess.com become as big as it is today?
It ate Magnus
summer grail
It ate Magnus
Only recently
drowsy crow
How did chess.com become as big as it is today?
state of chess is done, they will not prolly accept ur questions
summer grail
state of chess is done, they will not prolly accept ur questions
lel I don't mind
will still ask and am interested for an answer
there's been a lot of factors
balmy hazel
How do you program the chess bots to accurately match their playstyle?
crude mesa
How do you program the chess bots to accurately match their playstyle?
use a weaker engine
or just pick random \
sinful path
use a weaker engine
I think he means how the different bots tend to play more aggressively, defensively, solidly, etc.
In which case they probably use information about the stage of the game and the tactics of moves to decide what to play
strong viper
How do you program the chess bots to accurately match their playstyle?
artificial intelligence
raven raft
bishops for checkmate
blissful storm
Why do some games start with 0.2, or 0.4 on eval bar if it will end in a draw if played perfectly
blissful storm
I guess
How do they determine if a position is like +70 or an M
Chess will never be solved by humans though
Even endgame aren't totally solved
Oh
crude mesa
It’s either 0 or M 🤣
But it’s theoretically for humans to play it that way
Not even computers can do it maybe Stockfish 150
green dawn
how to achieve 2800 in chess
cerulean kraken
I want to know why people keep asking questions even though the video already came out
sinful path
fr 😭
bright idol
Chess.com isn’t the only website about chess but it has become the most popular ...
Marketing
native ridge
Why is en passant called en passant?
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modern raptor
How do you get unstuck in your chess rating
