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As you may have heard, Erik is stepping down as CEO, and they were looking for a replacement. For a short time, Anish Giri held that spot. But Elon Musk, the eccentric chess-hating billionaire, saw this and saw an opportunity. He did not just want to be CEO though. Instead, he bought Chess.com itself and became the king of chess. 

And before you go laughing on and saying "haha what a silly April fool's joke!", I am just going to tell you now that this is not a joke blog.  I know it's April fools, but Chess.com officially announced the news yesterday (May 31st), so you know that it's legit. 

If you follow the clues though, you can see that both chess.com and Elon Musk have been leading up to this announcement for a few months. For example, a little more than one year ago, Elon tried to buy chess.com and got terribly rejected.

Then a few months ago, Chess.com released a bot inspired by Elon Musk, then Elon musk said he was going to buy chess and "nerf the queen." Everybody thought it was a joke, until now when we realized he was not joking. 

That brings us to the first section of this blog- the changes that Elon will bring. But if you want to skip to a specific part of this blog that sounds interesting, just click any one of the blue links below-

What Will Be Changed?

For starters, your membership price is being doubled. Diamond is now $40 a month, gold is $20, and platinum will be $30. This is mainly because of how much money Elon lost in the last few months. He is actually the first person in history to ever lose $200,000,000 out of his net worth. 

Elon is also taking away the search bar that used to be under the "more" tab on the far left side of your screen. That change was actually implemented a few weeks ago, back when they were still negotiating the prices, but Musk would not want anything to do with chess.com unless they removed the search bar. 

Elon's thought process while making these decisions-

But the biggest change of all is that for $50,  you permanently can get your banned account back, and for another hundred, you are immune to all bans. This means that the number of abusive cheaters running around the bullet pools will be extra high, but as long as Elon Musk is making money it doesn't matter what happens to this website.

But... there are also surprisingly a few good ideas that Elon has in mind. One of which is creating a brand new variant, one that appeals to the average everyday multi-billionaire human. 

Musk Chess

When asked why Elon does not play chess on Twitter, he responded with-

So, Elon Musk created a variant called Musk Chess, or as anarchy chess has been calling it, chess 2. Chess 2 will be a three-player chess 960 game, with a nerfed queen, played on a 9x9 grid, while everything is covered in fog, much like a confusing fog of war game. According to an anonymous news source, chess 2 will drop on the first blue moon of 2024. 

I am personally really excited about this since there are no good variants out there other than Labyrinth, which nobody plays. But if Elon Musk fails as a CEO and has to resign the position (haha get it... cause chess...),  his name will still be forever engraved in the history of chess, as long as this variant becomes as popular as duck chess. 

But while I am on the topic of CEOs, let's see what happened to our beloved @Erik, the CEO of chess.com for more than 15 years? 

What Happened To Erik?

Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars. At the time, it was only worth 20 billion. That just shows two things- how much of a fool Elon Musk is, and how much he is willing to overpay for something he wants. 

So it is no surprise when he buys Chess.com for 8 billion dollars. 
Erik took this money and ran. He is now living in a huge mansion in the middle of San Diego. But now that Erik put on his retirement shoes, chess is a thing of the past for him. 

I will not miss chess. I only made this website as a cash grab, and the only reason I played chess is because our marketing team advised me to play and interact with local members so Chess.com looked like it was run by friendly people.  but now that I do not have to, I am free. This game was horrible anyways. 

-Erik Allebest, Chess.com's former CEO (real) 

So there you have it. Elon musk is buying Chess.com, and changing everything for the worse. I am absolutely sure that there will be a lot more changes since only a fraction of the information has been released, but anyways, what are your favorite changes? are there any you are excited about? let me know in the comments!

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