chesscube.com...

is dead

People yell at me for buying multiple memberships at redhotpawn.com
I figure 40-50 paid memberships over 15 years.

I am sick of chess.com and chess24.com taking over.

Gameknot will die next.
How long until RHP dies?

How many of you have paid memberships elsewhere but not here?

If RHP dies I will focus on real tournaments and say goodbye to internet chess.

@ketchuplover said
is dead

Their target date for the new site is in March. Seems they didn't care to spend $30K on a lame-duck server.

Until then, one can follow on Discord. Nice crowd but RHP is better.

@old-indian said
How long until RHP dies?

@old-indian

Panic not! RHP will never die! 🙂

@old-indian said
People yell at me for buying multiple memberships at redhotpawn.com
I figure 40-50 paid memberships over 15 years.

I am sick of chess.com and chess24.com taking over.

Gameknot will die next.
How long until RHP dies?

How many of you have paid memberships elsewhere but not here?

If RHP dies I will focus on real tournaments and say goodbye to internet chess.

How many of you have paid memberships elsewhere but not here?


Not me. I'm not experienced in chess.com, but RHP has been a good enough site, so I'm not going anywhere. I used to play in the ICCF but they've become a bit too cold and impersonal. Still deciding if I should focus my energies here or OTB.

@Russ

It better not.
I’m still waiting for my first dividend cheque 🤔

@mchill

CC is better and more fun.
A lot cheaper too. 😉

@old-indian said
People yell at me for buying multiple memberships at redhotpawn.com
I figure 40-50 paid memberships over 15 years.

I am sick of chess.com and chess24.com taking over.

Gameknot will die next.
How long until RHP dies?

How many of you have paid memberships elsewhere but not here?

If RHP dies I will focus on real tournaments and say goodbye to internet chess.

I am glad that chess.com exists, if for no other reason than to give idiots a forum that is easier to find than RHP.

@BigDoggProblem

I like you. I really do.

@ketchuplover

Replied to your PM but apparently your setting is on "ignore".

Anyway:

https://discord.gg/4E8UXzx

RHP is great for correspondence chess, but not for blitz, which is all I play nowadays.

@old-indian said


I am sick of chess.com and chess24.com taking over.

Gameknot will die next.

My take on chess.com is there are many cry-babies who have no interest in improving their skills. But chess24 has lots of videos and live tournament coverage.

@ogb

chess.com can go to hell.

chess24.com did get Magnus to play live games against weaker opponents with commentary and put it on youtube which was cool and chess24 is not a correspondence site so I guess they ain’t all bad.

@WOLFE63

merci beaucoup

@old-indian said
@ogb

chess.com can go to hell.

chess24.com did get Magnus to play live games against weaker opponents with commentary and put it on youtube which was cool and chess24 is not a correspondence site so I guess they ain’t all bad.

That's something to keep in mind - No one is going to design a chess site that exactly fits everyone's needs. Decades ago there were no chess sites at all, just chess books, OTB Tournaments, and (for correspondence players) postcards.

RHP is a site that does about 95% of what I want, so I'm not going to waste endless hours trying to find the remaining 5%. 🙂