State of Chess Q&A

[frozen apex]

boom

[thick ice]

everyone under me isnt good at chess

[viral latch]

BELOW IS GAY

[eager talon]

[torn wave]

Will chess.com's puzzles ever be free? Instead of giving the user 3 puzzles each day

[cedar summit]

Cool

[hollow haven]

hi

[past ruin]

Weee

[oak veldt]

Messi or Ronaldo?

[midnight patio]

who's danny

[torn thunder]

YOOO

[red oriole]

[sturdy tulip]

How do you feel about people calling you Daniel?

[cedar summit]

Question: What got you to play chess?

[midnight patio]

how to checkmate with king only

[late crow]

skibidi toilet yes or no

[strange vine]

How many languages do you speak?

[inland shuttle]

960 cct event when?

[frozen apex]

preferably questions about chess.com lol

[torn thunder]

Those mfs be asking "so erm🤓☝"

Fr

[red oriole]

English or Spanish

[sturdy tulip]

How does Chess.com feel about people calling you Daniel?

[past ruin]

NO

[spring juniper]

What do you think of Magnus accusing Hans Niemann baselessly trying to ruin his career?

[teal escarp]

Are you scared of the dark and if so, do you still sleep with a nightlight?

[hollow haven]

did chess fall off

[torn thunder]

Someone pls ban this.

[karmic haven]

Can you give us a hint about the new bots in August

[midnight patio]

are you gonna get a chess.chess domain

[dark nymph]

Free puzzles

[sturdy tulip]

Are you going to be getting the Chess DLC?

[late crow]

fire in the hole

[silk totem]

Danny, who are the support grandmasters you have in your fair play team? Would you mind listing them?

[spring juniper]

Why have you not provided an explanation as to why Vih_Souu was banned?

[past ruin]

When did you play your first chess tournament ?

[midnight patio]

when is chess 2.0 gonna be out

[inland shuttle]

imho the new review layout sucks (is quite messy), any further changes planned for it? Or any plans to revert it back?

[sturdy tulip]

Do pawns need a nerf?

[lilac gate]

When can we add chess engines of our choice ? Like in droidfish

[fallow basin]

Danny, it is not exactly a question, but can you say to the camera “erm what the sigma”

[austere kraken]

When is fots reform (discord)

[hot ridge]

Can you please suggest a reading list for chess?

[torn thunder]

Are we gonna draw arrow like laptop users? @frozen apex

[latent halo]

Can you make en passant forced?

[midnight patio]

make the game not p2w

[torn thunder]

Nah

[safe shore]

real question for danny -

can we add pre-moves to daily games?

[fair fog]

No.

[sturdy tulip]

Chess needs a battle pass

[finite hollow]

What in your Opinion should Intermediate Players Learn? The Opening Theory or Endgame?

[inland shuttle]

Any plans to release torch publicly?

[rugged atlas]

I like it, but yes that is your opinion, I think the "retry" feature is quite handy.

[torn thunder]

I want draw arrows fr bro 💀🙏

[fair fog]

There already is.

[cedar thistle]

u alreadycan

[frozen apex]

broke one of these

[fair fog]

Conditional moves.

[cedar thistle]

which one

[inland shuttle]

Think that was there in old layout as well, tbh I just prefer the graph to be on top and always visible, and the seamless switching between review and analysis

[austere kraken]

lmfao aint telling

[frozen apex]

ask them 🤷‍♀️

[spring juniper]

Yes, I understood he got banned for cheating. Why does chess.com not provide evidence as to how they detect cheating? It definitely wasn’t because he was beating Daniel Naroditsky with a dubious opening right?

[torn thunder]

ARE WE GONNA GET UPDATE THAT WE CAN DRAW ARROWS LIKE LAOTOP USERS?

[frozen apex]

not for cheating

[fair fog]

Yes please.

[fallow basin]

Danny, do you sometimes read chess.com discord server chat?

[frozen apex]

cheating is a fair play ban

they got an abuse ban

[spring juniper]

Ah I am unfamiliar with that my bad what does that mean exactly?

[austere kraken]

Do not promote your club

excessivly

[frozen apex]

just sent you the list. community conduct

[inland shuttle]

Any active plans to improve experience for mobile users? (Should just redesign the app from scratch imo 😂)

[safe shore]

chess.com really says no politics then proceeds to give us support ukraine flags 😎 we will take it I guess

[frozen apex]

or sportmanship

[sturdy tulip]

Can you make it so the game won’t let me blunder

[austere kraken]

use a browser

[frozen apex]

if you’re cheating you get banned for fair play

[spring juniper]

But sportsmanship includes fair play?

[lucid crest]

any plans to get the elo system more in line with the FIDE ratinng?

[inland shuttle]

Sounds even dumber

[austere kraken]

the fair play policy is inside sportsmanship

[frozen apex]

but if you’re banned for fairplay specifically your profile shows banned for fairplay

[sharp zealot]

This one is a bit more specific, but is chess.com in any kind of contact with the 2025 Olympics Esports Games organizers to help implementing the chess category?

[frozen apex]

and theirs shows abuse

[rugged atlas]

My question to Danny: What keeps you motivated and passionate about chess and your work at Chess.com?

[spring juniper]

Hmm so he got banned for no reason

Interesting

[austere kraken]

thats dumb

[frozen apex]

how did you come to that conclusion thats an insane conclusion

[misty inlet]

yo wusup

[frozen apex]

anyway, writing down the real questions thanks yall keep em coming 🙂

[misty inlet]

how do i find chess tournaments?

[austere kraken]

Did mine get written down

[spring juniper]

Based on the information he provided on Reddit
I would be very confused as to why he would break the community guidelines in any way haha

[frozen apex]

chess.com/tournaments or go.chess.com/communityclub

[frozen apex]

and yet

he did

[misty inlet]

i mean like irl tournaments

[frozen apex]

based on reddit info from the banned person is insane

[sturdy tulip]

Google.com

[frozen apex]

anyway

[misty inlet]

fide tournaments

[frozen apex]

not my department

[rugged atlas]

why ask questions like "where can I find tournaments" like you can search that stuff on google.

[frozen apex]

fide website 🙂

[inland shuttle]

Any bts collaboration with fide or lichess for only fair play related purposes? Or any plans to do so?

[spring juniper]

Hm only plausible thing would be multiple accounts I guess

[austere kraken]

oh hell nah

[misty inlet]

i didnt find anything for my country there

give me any other website ig

[lost peak]

what is your department

[austere kraken]

community

[frozen apex]

community and events

[austere kraken]

AND EVENTS :o

[inland shuttle]

🤫 let the idea be planted

[spring juniper]

I remember another player who got banned unfairly. Maybe it was due to Magnus’ association with chess.com? Hans Niemann. Ring any bells?

But Hans won the lawsuit so gg

[lost peak]

why r u all over my chess.com msgs 😭 i always get excited when i see a message nd think it was a cheater

[safe shore]

maybe hans should not have cheated then

[austere kraken]

the discord server is in the community department

[spring juniper]

He didn’t

[frozen apex]

we released an 86 page doc on that and no he didnt

anyway

[lost peak]

hans didnt win it was a ‘tie’

[sharp zealot]

I heard rumors that chess.com is developing a "project 2.0". Is it true?

[lilac bane]

Can I add more context or this enough for an short question ? @frozen apex

[lost peak]

it was dismissed

[frozen apex]

yep!

[spring juniper]

Well chess.com allowed him back on the site and paid him? Not sure what counts as a win in your books

[inland shuttle]

He didn't win the lawsuit, there was some sort of settlement and both parties r still insistent on both their claims in the "amount of cheating"

[frozen apex]

that’s enough! any serious questions are being written down

[austere kraken]

So, did you write down my question?

[snow quarry]

are you guys gonna fix bugged achievements?

[spring juniper]

Settlement that favoured Hans, hence Hans win gg

[lost peak]

is it true that titled players get a second chance if they cheat?

[spring juniper]

Will be a joy to watch Hans beat MVL tomorrow

[safe shore]

Hans is rewarded for cheating is what it came down to

[frozen apex]

no matter what I say, you’re believing whatever you want in any subject. so I’m not gonna waste time linking you the statement or settlements or the statement about why we’re working with him again

[austere kraken]

all players are given a second chance

[frozen apex]

have a good one Leon.

[lilac bane]

Hello, Danny How are things going for you? I would like to know how you handle the responsibilities of your job while seeking the right equilibrium between your personal life and mental health.

[spring juniper]

Unfortunate, have a good one Anitta.

[austere kraken]

mvl even beat magnus in scc

[viral latch]

do you know how the knight moves

[austere kraken]

not possible

[median heart]

Are there any plans to offer Puzzle Battle for multiple people, e.g. a streamer and their chat?

[spring juniper]

And Hans beat Magnus lol

[austere kraken]

is there a group battle

[safe shore]

this is a cool question

[lost peak]

thats not fair is it? i played against some1 with 99 accuracy (1300) and it wasnt a speedrun account

and the account is still not banned

[austere kraken]

Feel free to contact the fair play team

[safe shore]

accuracy is not reliable for that

it just means you could have played the opening bad

[inland shuttle]

What's the current general state of servers? Are you predicting any more chess booms in near future?

[inland shuttle]

Just report and move on

[austere kraken]

Why did you fire employees earlier this month?

[lost peak]

i had around 80%

[lost peak]

true

[sturdy tulip]

Community and events

[safe shore]

your opponent can have a straight forward plan and get a high acuracy because of it

[austere kraken]

OMG DOOFY REACTED BRILLIANT

[inland shuttle]

What happened 🤔

[austere kraken]

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1dp766a/chesscom_fires_around_40_staff_as_it_prioritizes/

[lost peak]

yea but 99 for 1300 is too good no?

[safe shore]

without having the moves it is hard to say

[viral latch]

maybe if you played 5 moves and ended the game lmao

[hazy crypt]

@frozen apex when will Chesscom finally add the I and J columns to the chess board I’ve been waiting for years

plz nerf queen

[frozen apex]

connect your acc

will come on

lmao

[austere kraken]

ur not neuro 😭

Will

lmao

WILL

[sturdy tulip]

Any plans to make en passant mandatory

[frozen apex]

das Will the one and only

[viral latch]

@frozen apex english or spanish

[grave axle]

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[frozen apex]

[safe shore]

@frozen apex another video of them reading mean comments sent in to support ? Those are pretty funny

[torn thunder]

@frozen apex are we gonna get update that we can draw like arrows?

[frozen apex]

trueee

[viral latch]

what is your job what do you do

[hidden fractal]

CCO: Chief Chess Officer

[frozen apex]

what do you mean by that? on mobile? if so pls re write the question cause it’s a good one

[hazy crypt]

my account is connected!

[torn thunder]

Yes on mobile

[hidden fractal]

/connectmessage

[tawdry pollen]

i think they mean the arrows that u can draw on pc

[austere kraken]

Are you going to add support for mobile users to draw arrows?

[frozen apex]

[sturdy tulip]

Sure I’ll rewrite it

[frozen apex]

thanks guys lol

[torn wave]

no it's not

[austere kraken]

i need to redeem myself

[hazy crypt]

did that work

[inland shuttle]

....and variants, and premoves

[torn wave]

no it didn't lmao

[viral latch]

REMOVE STALEMATE IN WINNING POSITION

[austere kraken]

no not yet

[grave axle]

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[torn thunder]

YEASIRRRRR

[austere kraken]

dont use weird ahh fonts

[frozen apex]

alternatively: git gud

[torn wave]

skill issue

[viral latch]

also REMOVE FRIED LIVER

[inland shuttle]

When are you going to offer a draw in Danny vs world?

[torn thunder]

Finally I can sleep peaceful after I know chess will add draw arrows for mobile users 🙏‼️

[viral latch]

fried liver SHOULD BE ELIMATED

[austere kraken]

play 1c4

[viral latch]

stfu fried liver lover

you just wanna trap me

[frozen apex]

just play the traxler

ez

[austere kraken]

play d5

[viral latch]

is chess pay to win

[torn wave]

no

[austere kraken]

Chess.com is free!

to play chess on

[safe shore]

no its get born with the talent to win there are like 10 yo gms

[hazy crypt]

@frozen apex happy now?

[safe shore]

very happy

[austere kraken]

happy!

[inland shuttle]

When will London be banned from cc events?

[frozen apex]

YES

[viral latch]

can i get chip in brain for millions of dollars to become good at chess?

[torn wave]

yay

[frozen apex]

now you’re immune to silence just joined 🙂

[austere kraken]

Fairp lay policy

[frozen apex]

wrong sticker

rip

[torn wave]

lmao

[frozen apex]

fairp lay

[safe shore]

lol not reading all that sticker

[torn wave]

lays??

[viral latch]

is chip in brain against chess rules

[safe shore]

😵

[safe shore]

anitta just got me 😵

[torn wave]

why would you put chip in your brain? just eat it

[safe shore]

its mittens!!

[viral latch]

@frozen apex can u make me -100 elo

[inland shuttle]

I'm assuming technically u can't get outside assistance using it, otherwise currently chip might be fine if u wanna take the associated risks 😂

[austere kraken]

yes but she wont

[frozen apex]

sure. poof. nothing changed

[viral latch]

wow

[safe shore]

@frozen apex mittens the cat bot comes back when? 😸

[viral latch]

below is gay

[frozen apex]

boo

[austere kraken]

lmfao

[torn wave]

scary

[frozen apex]

good one also miss him

[viral latch]

below will never get past 1000 elo

[safe shore]

dang

[austere kraken]

bring back /live

[inland shuttle]

Any plans to play in WRB?👀

[crimson otter]

Can you add a nobara eating watermelon bot in chess.ckm?

[austere kraken]

yes but they wont

[viral latch]

below is granmaster

[lilac bane]

What is the salary that CC pays to its employees?

[crimson otter]

Me..

[frozen apex]

whyyy tho that was bad

[austere kraken]

[lilac bane]

ur prev pfp was nicer ;

[frozen apex]

a what

[safe shore]

not sure if is just on my account but it used to be you could predict the move of the game you were observing - does not seem to work any more

[crimson otter]

[austere kraken]

When are you giving out custom roles

[frozen apex]

works for me still

[crimson otter]

@proper dagger do you want this bot too?

[austere kraken]

turn off eval and engine moves

[safe shore]

ohh thanks invisible

[crimson otter]

A nobara eating watermelon bot on chessmvom

[austere kraken]

ur welcome 🙂

[crimson otter]

Chess.clm

*chess.com

[austere kraken]

hold the hikaru-magnus match

[inland shuttle]

Any community events only for chess.com partnered streamers? 🤔 Something like imscc?

[viral latch]

below will marry above

[austere kraken]

mod scc

oh yeah

[inland shuttle]

https://tenor.com/view/slap-in-the-face-angry-gtfo-bitc-bitch-slap-gif-15667197

[torn wave]

embed fail

[austere kraken]

ive been advocating for senior scc

[torn wave]

lmfao

[safe shore]

its okay joel I'll marry you

[viral latch]

below will die in 5 minutes

[austere kraken]

lfg

[safe shore]

yay

[inland shuttle]

Hmmmm

[viral latch]

below will lose 100 iq points

[austere kraken]

connect your account

[safe shore]

can I have negative?

[inland shuttle]

@austere kraken I'm surprised u haven't asked for tt/ak streams yet 😂😂

[austere kraken]

oh YEAH

OH YEAH

YEAH

TT/AK STREAMS

[inland shuttle]

https://tenor.com/view/baby-laugh-gif-12698535

[safe shore]

but a lot of people do stream TT no? /genuine

[austere kraken]

there used to be an "official" broadcast

when cc invites a community member to commentate on top games

[inland shuttle]

what r ur puzzle rush scores?

[austere kraken]

is this thread dead alr

[sleek violet]

Is chesscom better then lichess for free users?

[torn wave]

it's done

[austere kraken]

chess.com has more features which require premium membership, lichess is completely free, however lacking some features exclusive to cc

[inland shuttle]

as a chess player, do u think ding will rise once again? 👀

[silk totem]

Like what, Vision?

[austere kraken]

tbf have NO idea

[silk totem]

Wait until he hears about a second device

[austere kraken]

fym, you did it and got caught.

[inland shuttle]

i think they already track when tabs r switched, not exactly an invasion of privacy cause im assuming they dont exactly track everything u r doing, just that u r switching away from the game

[austere kraken]

they did update the tos or smth recently

can you explain the new TOS updates?

[inland shuttle]

dont see how itd be illegal to check whther the user is actively on the current tab or not, again, doubt they can see what u r doing on other tab or anything, just that u r not on current tab

[silk totem]

They're really not but they have to abide with EU

[austere kraken]

lmfao what a joke

keep this related to chess

[ripe wraith]

Will you ever become a GM?

[austere kraken]

probably not

he peaked

[inland shuttle]

im not saying they can see what else u r doing, thats defo illegal and prolly not possible in proper browsers, but sites r prolly allowed to check their own uptime and whether or not anything is modified, for eg. yt knows when u r using adblocks and all, cause the extension modiefies the data u see, similarly its prolly possible to see whether u r actively using that tab or not.
again i could be completely wrong, im not an expert

[inland shuttle]

doubt he's even gonna invest time in that

again, idk the details, but i think it can be tracked whether u r actively using the page or not, all the social media sites prolly do it as well, just to check ur engagement and stuff

maybe someone with experience in web development can answer 😂

[austere kraken]

they do.

[bronze hill]

How can we toggle Stockfish 16.1 on our ios devices like stockfish enables on their app?

[vale owl]

hi

[rustic cobalt]

Puzzle battle royale we need that on god

[inland shuttle]

so... Puzzle Royale? 🤔 could prolly also name it something with 'rush'

[austere kraken]

keep this related to state of chess questions please

[ember charm]

Mb

[grim glacier]

everybody asking who is danny, where is danny

no body asking how is danny

so my question is just

[austere kraken]

someone did ask abt his mental health or sum

[grim glacier]

Danny, my friend, How are you?

[grim glacier]

ohh

nvm then 💀

[inland shuttle]

the whole buildup failed 😂

[austere kraken]

#💬〡chess-talk

[dreamy turtle]

Who would win in a race to get GM Title first? Is it you or levy? What is your biggest barrier to the GM title?

[austere kraken]

rating and three norms

[winter frost]

bump

[torn wave]

thanks

[fair fog]

Welp.

[inland shuttle]

Biggest barrier is underrated too op kids 😂

[grim glacier]

most of those kids being from some random ass indian village 💀

[gleaming kindle]

Are there any plans of hosting team tournaments in the future?

[inland shuttle]

ye we defo need something to replace pcl

[gleaming kindle]

As far as i am concerned, it would be an amazing addition to the chess.com community, as it would bring players together. Team tournaments are highly competitive, but also fun! So, you could participate in a tournament with a group of friends from your chess club, school, university etc.

However, i think that there should probably be different tournaments depending on your elo in order to ensure that it will be a fair fight between all participants

[desert garnet]

Will there be any events that are more accommodated to the Eastern side of the community? Things like (Un)titled Tuesdays and (Community) Bullet Brawl happen in the dead of night for some of the far-east countries, and it's hard for us to find time to mix with the rest of the community. We'd really appreciate it if there were more major events suited to our time zone.

Also, any plans on making events/features that are more appealing to different levels of the chess community? Major events for rating brackets like U2000, U1800, U1500 etc. on chess.com that are greatly supported may encourage more players to play competitively and shows them that they're able to play in a competitive scene, especially in a major chess platform ✨

[austere kraken]

Is there a discord channel only for ogs

OG role

[silk totem]

Why doesn’t chess.com IOS app have stacked premoves, just nornal premoves? Chess.com android app has stacked premoves.

[inland shuttle]

android does not hv stacked premoves

[silk totem]

For me it does, I have two android devices and both support stacked premoves

[austere kraken]

TWO DEVICES

[silk totem]

Meh not too rich

Like a Samsung tablet and an Amazon Fire

[latent shoal]

@stoic cape Any thoughts on releasing names of repeat offenders to discourage cheating? Also, can we please have more Hess, and.....cowbell....

[woeful rose]

There were fair play changes?

[mint pier]

EVERYBODY ABOVE ME WILL PASS 2200 FIDE

(except for the guy that said everyone below is gay)

[austere kraken]

Any plans to bring back PCL

[spring juniper]

The interview yesterday was glorious 😂 Any chance chess.com will address the allegations made? Obviously not 😂 One of those lie detector videos with Danny Rensch being asked questions by Hans would be wonderful. “Did you ban Hans due to the vested interest in Magnus’ company?”

[spring juniper]

Also you laughed at my comment saying watching Hans beat MVL will be a joy
Well guess what happened 😂