#State Of Chess Q&A

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vapid locust
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Have any questions about Chess.com to our CCO Danny Rensch? Send them below!

We’ll pick the top ones to be answered during the next State Of Chess broadcast 🔥

Tune in to our Twitch and YouTube channels on Tuesday, September 2 at 1.30 p.m. ET / 18.30 CEST / 11.00 p.m. IST to enjoy the show and participate in the discussion 💚

lofty sand
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Hmmm

regal socket
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how do you feel about schools blocking chess.com

lapis oxide
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Yalls hack systm sucks

wind osprey
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hi

sharp musk
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hello

lofty sand
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Hmmm

pure river
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Who is the owner of Chess.com? Like boss or CEO.

paper latch
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Do you like levy rozman?

spiral karma
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Favourite chess piece.

twilit nacelle
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Are you a GrandMaster?

vapid locust
trail mauve
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Have you considered lowering the price of chess.com premium?

paper latch
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How does the knight move?

lofty thistle
lofty sand
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Hmmm

sharp musk
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What is your favorite chess opening/gambit and why?

vapid locust
pure river
plain notch
opal sail
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Do you give more leniency to cheating titled players as oppose to normal ones?

fierce shell
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Can you please adopt me?

pure river
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What is your favourite meme opening?

paper latch
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Do you like your job?

lofty sand
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Hmmm

plain notch
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ok there's like 10 billion different thinmgs for "ur hack detection sux"

paper latch
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What is your favorite opening?

surreal wren
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How is puzzle elo calculated

plain notch
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will there be any adjustments to the subscription pricings in the future, whether increases or decreases? if so, why?

rich helm
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What changes for the viewers now that EWC is in the picture?

pure river
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Is cheating on chess.com becoming overwhelming?

pure river
swift portal
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When is your book being published, and do you think you have done a good job?

dense plaza
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Any plans on buying out lichess?

lofty sand
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Hmmm

vapid locust
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adding all your questions to a sheet - keep em coming!

pure river
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can mittens stay as a permanent bot?

neat estuary
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Is there a lichess collab coming

vapid locust
pure river
ivory latch
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thoughts on th president of fide and his direction of the improvment of chess?

mild valve
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Can you make 3+1 a real time control?

pure river
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will there be a new time control added?

strange patio
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Do you think that chess.com can be considered a monopoly?

sleek wing
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can u please add more payment options like UPI or google play balance or online wallets (amazon, paytm etc). Currently it asks card details or pay pal which is not widely used where I live, anything other would be appreciated.

real cedar
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How the horsey moves?

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Do you think lichess is better?

untold ore
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do you think there will ever come a time where there will be software to "intelligently" cheat? Like an LLM smart enough to determine how a real player would play while still reaching a good win rate

sturdy estuary
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Is math related to chess

frozen cobalt
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How will proctor deal with lag, should players take into consideration that every once in awhile they will lose a game due to proctor lag?

Will proctor be used more widely for non titled player events?

Will in-person proctors still be used widely?

midnight smelt
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When will Chess960 get a proper stats page?

Will a classical rating ever be added? If so, when?

strange patio
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How is the progress on the Chess.com developed engine (Torch)

smoky jungle
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Why did you migrate king of the hill from the play tab?

vivid frigate
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why teams or crazyhouse are in variants tab but bughouse is in play tab? because its so inconvenient

strange patio
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Has there ever been any sort of "block" in trying to come up with new ways to innovate on the site? Or how do you try to come up with new ideas to provide more value

spice gyro
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Why don't you bring back the feature that allows anyone to review any game reviewed by someone else without losing their daily review?

verbal copper
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Why don't Chess.com organize a tournament each month for free membership where requirement is your account must be created before 6 month or earlier of 1 hour so every one can play full tournament

strange patio
sharp lintel
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I would like a page where we can see total of brilliant moves, great moves, excellent and everything (yeah blunders aswell)

orchid panther
sharp lintel
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Aight

wraith quarry
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what would you be doing (or want to do) in your life if you weren't running chess.com

twin pecan
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CAN YOU MAKE A WEBSITE WHICH LETS US PLAY A GAME AGAINST SOMEONE WHILE CHEATING (slightly) SO THAT WE CAN SEE IF WE CAN SEE HOW GOOD THE CHESS.COM ALGORITHM IS AT DETECTING CHEATERS AND IMPROVISE OUR CHEATING STRATEGIES. 😏😏

pretty please

glossy sundial
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will there be a puzzle path for courses/lessons

worldly totem
fading zenith
soft comet
crystal void
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How to improve? What should be my daily games schedule?

strange patio
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Please add playable checkers though
It would be funny

shy vine
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What is the next update for the website? Or what new stuff will you guys add to it in the future?

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Why does some of the bot dissapear after time? Is it possible to make some of it become permanent such as mittens or sensei?

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Why is there still "Daily" for time control when most of the opponent, or maybe just mine opponent cheat?
Doesnt it have more chances to cheat when it comes to Daily than other times control for instants Rapid?
I mean they could just pull out stockfish and its harder to dectect (Is it?) because the opponent has more time to think for he/ she's excuse of cheating

timber wren
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Did the Vladimir Kramnik situation make chess.com’s anti cheating software better?

safe rapids
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How long does the anticheat takes to ban someone for cheating?

charred stump
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can you make it so when you are playing a game the ECO Code(encyclopedia of chess openings) shows next to the opening? it used to do that and now it doesn’t.

sand abyss
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How will Chess.com chesstv manage cheating 🚫 in big tournaments with prize pool

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if anyone gets 100% accuracy 🇼 🇮 🇹 🇭 🇴 🇺 🇹 cheating how would that situation be resolved

kind oxide
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Are there any new features planned for 2025-2026?

last furnace
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What happened to the daily match streak? Will it ever come back?

abstract thunder
lapis oxide
untold ore
lapis oxide
untold ore
lapis oxide
untold ore
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you gotta look at yourself if ya think i cheat

lapis oxide
untold ore
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ignore the typos 😂

lapis oxide
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Yeah you're gonna have to retype that mate, I can't read any of it.

untold ore
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fr

lapis oxide
untold ore
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alr alr

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its ok it just pisses me off when ppl accuse of cheating yk 😂

lapis oxide
untold ore
safe pelican
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Why my opponent still not get banned after 3 months of cheating

silver sinew
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How does chess.com combat cheating with the use of Maia bots? I don’t think it’s a widespread issue but anyone can easily reach 1500+ without having to wonder what’s an engine-y move and what isn’t… probably even higher ratings by setting the node count slightly above 1

tame crypt
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i'm 464 elo and i beat janjay bot (she's 700)

abstract thunder
rain folio
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If you played against peak levy
Would you lose?

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I better not get a nah I'd win meme reply 💔

wraith quarry
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nah id lose

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gyat that was yesterday we died already 💔

stone heath
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Is it planned now or will be planned in the future for variant club arenas getting the function to be created by club admins, coordinators, and normal players after the migration of 3-Check, Crazyhouse, and KotH?

glossy sundial
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azome

glossy sundial
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What is Your Plan to deal with closet cheaters? (Theese cheaters are Experienced players rated usually 2000 elo and above, theese use top engines only when they really need it and usually get away with it as they do not consistently cheat in their games.)

vivid frigate
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Do you plan on adding more variants to chess.com and which ones are in development?

real cedar
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Knight or bishop

slow trout
silk leaf
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I have a technical question,
open challenges stopped working on the mobile version of the website (just stopped showing). It works on pc but doesn’t work on mobile. Can you fix that?

unkempt granite
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Were the free memberships given out?

unique stone
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Have you thought about adding a classical time control where you could play 30 mins with increment or 1 hour or 1.5 hour games?

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And as a separate section to rapid with its own elo

oblique dove
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On Chess.com, how does the moderation structure work & how are potential mistakes handled on the platform

glossy sundial
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what

sand cipher
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Why'd you start chess.com and did you ever think it was going to get as big as it is now?

barren echo
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How do you guys know if someone's cheating? Like using stockfish?

thick elm
fading zenith
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was chess.com the original owner of the website chess.com or did you have to get the site from someone else?

shy vine
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Why is the bot always like -1000elo for their real elo? LIke when I am 400 i can already beat 1600-1800 bots