How do you make the most of a Chess.com diamond membership?

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pran344

Hi, I am planning on getting a diamond membership and would like to know, how do you make the most of a chess.com diamond membership, and how beneficial is it to have?

RhysKendall

Just play chess bro💀💀💀😭😭😭

Derek-C-Goodwin

I smashed puzzles like a madman, I can't get enough of them!

 

IpswichMatt

Have a look at the old chess lessons. Go to Lessons, sort them by "Release" and go to the end (i.e. click "Last")

Then look for courses by Wolski and Silman, the ones with a large number of lessons. E.g "Pawn Endings, Beginner to Expert", "Build Your Technique" etc.

benderblunder

I believe you need to take in the sunk cost fallacy as well as inflation due to the war between ukraine and russia. You must weight the costs to the performance increase this product will give. You must also think about your own financial situations in order to fully process the amount and do due diligence on the product itself in order to get maximum output from minimum input

xFallesafe
Uhhhhhh… by using the features of the membership plan???😆
badger_song

When an individual uses the word fallacy in a non-academic setting,I cease listening to them.

IpswichMatt

It is a fallacy to think that that word should only be used by academia.

Ziryab
BoardMonkey wrote:

You make the most of it by entering pgn into coach explanations. The Week in Chess website has recent Grandmaster games. Just copy and paste them into analysis and have the coach annotate them for you.

Then you review the games trying to guess the best moves. Keep the coach explanations covered up as you guess the best move.

Seems more entertaining than useful. I’ve looked enough at coach’s blunders commenting on my own games to know that what coach offers on GM games will be absurd.

As to the OP’s question. There are many useful features here. How you benefit depends on your learning style and the weaknesses that you need to target. For me, lately, I’ve been working puzzles. Sometimes I’ll do more than one hundred in a day. Last week, I solved 500 puzzles (54% correct) over four sessions totalling 8 hours on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning.

During the OTB chess tournament I played over the weekend, I found myself enjoying calculating variations far more than in the past. Having shifted my time on this site towards more puzzles (more than 5000 since mid-December), my attitude during play has shifted, too. Oh, I won the tournament, too. There were two experts and three A class players at the top of a thirty player event. I was the lowest rated A, but beat one of the experts in the last round to win top prize.

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