BobC #1 Imagine a chess website with 47 ads. Why do they bother with it? Everyone uses Adblock.



The goal at lichess is to make the best chess website even better. The goal at chess.com is to make lots of money from suckers.



Another interesting thing about the disgusting chess.com: The word "Lichess" is not allowed. The place loves censorship. It's a lot like North Korea.

Nordefjorden #2 I know how you feel! I completely wasted 5 yrs on that site! Now I'm a lichess proselytizer, I swear...

Sungjin #3 BobC, I understand you, but you need to respect it. You should also know that chess.com is bigger than lichess. And that is why they use money to organize events.

Yanagi1376 #4 Although I don't like to play on chess.com because of the bad and complex website, I think they are just doing business. It is just BUSINESS!! So, they can live their life.

Neverness #5 I gave up on there years ago.

nikolajtesla #6 @BobC does anyone forces you to go and to play there? What is your problem with chess.com/? Yes, in my opinion their site is worth than this one but this does not mean that they are not allowed to generate money.



Just curious whether you have a job? If you are, imagine that there is a guy who does the same job for free and potentially slightly better (and believe me that there is someone on this planet who does things better than you and for free). Does this mean that anyone here has to say: 'Look at disgusting BobC, he asks for 40$ per hour and does such a crappy job. He just makes money from suckers'?



You and chess.com are free ask for as much money as you want. Actually you can create a chess website that does not even work. Tell that it does not work at all and you are not going to fix it and ask for 1k$ for a monthly membership. It is up to other people to decide whether this is a good deal or not.

BobC #7 My problem with chess.com is they exist only because they use censorship to prevent anyone from mentioning the word "lichess". Without this censorship their chess.com would go out of business.



The way it is now lives are being wasted on an inferior website that takes their money when something much better is free.



I think censorship is wrong.



"BobC, I understand you, but you need to respect it."



I don't have to respect anything.

nikolajtesla #8 @BobC there is nothing surprising that inferior business tries to hide a superior competitor from its customers. They are not obliged to tell anyone about lichess. I will give you another analogy. Lets assume you have a wife and she likes to cook.



Now out of a sudden I show up as a guest to your home (or may be I paid you to come and eat). I start to tell everyone that she is a terrible cook an the girl two blocks away is way better with her cooking. You told me to leave and because I didn't want to do so you kicked me away.



This is not a censorship from your side and there is nothing wrong with what you have done. I was on your property and behaved not in a way you expect me to behave so you kicked me away.

BobC edited #9 Chess.com can do anything they want. So they have decided to be like North Korea.



For many reasons I would like to completely destroy the evil chess.com.