I've met lots of opponents and forum-writers born before let's say 1935, which is not that old, these days; it is a pity most players do not give their birthday in the personal info, even Daniel Distopia !
How old is chess.com
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But how old is Chess.com ? like 21 years? I would like to know...
It was created in 2007, 7th May. So it is 8 years old.
Chess.com was began in 1962. It was a fulfilled campaign promise of John F. Kennedy.
Bobby Fischer was its first member. Pal Benko was second.
A year latter in 1963 chess.com was used to spy on Soviets during the Cuban Missle Crisis b/c the US thought the Soviets were in Cuba to extract José Capablanca's DNA for clonning purposes.
Chess. com was a popular pastime for soldiers of the Vietnam War.
On July 19th of 1969, Niell Armstring used Chess.com to play a game against Michael Collins to overcome boredom on the Moon. Collins lost but said it was due to Buzz Aldrin's kibitzing.
In 1972 chess.com was used to relay moves from Iceland in the Fischer-Spasky match.
In 1983 President Reagan declared chess.com to be a national treasure, and put it in the National Registry of Historic Places.
In 1985 women finaly were allowed to join chess.com due to a 2 year world wide propaganda campaign for equality in chess competition spearheaded by Cindy Lauper who said "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
Pope John Paul II joined chess.com in 1989 he was member #4,682,195.
In 1993 President William J. Clinton declared chess.com to be "Too Sexy for It's Shirt" Al Gore took credit for inventing Chess.com along with the internet.
Windows 95 introduced major improvements to the chess.com interface in 1995.
In the fall of of 2001, sadly during the aftermath of 9/11 chess.com fell victom to an Anthrax attack via email. Anthrax is the only virus known to attack both computers and humans as well as cattle and livestock.
In 2006 chess.com was used to cheat in a WC match between Topalov and Kramnik.
Nothing important happened on May 7th, 2007.
In 2008 former 1st Lady Hillary Clinton lost a primary match on chess.com to then Senator Barack Obama.
In 2012 chess.com was elected Worlds Greatest Internet Chess server.
And the rest is History.
The above story is not based on reality and the names were changed to protect the guilty.
Interesting information. Now I have a question regarding your explanation. If I am not wrong, the internet began on 1970. So how is that that chess.com existed in 1962? Also the domain "chess.com" seems to be registered for first time on August 11-1994, that would be close to 21 years. So there is probably something missing here....
If you believe my above story, then I have a beach house in Tennesee, and a mountain home in Florida and I'll sell ya both for the prce of just one, a BOGO deal!
Obviously your answer was not believable at all, by simply reading the first sentence "Chess.com was began in 1962" ha ha made me laugh.
However we need to be polite with others on the net, because we never know with whom are we talking to. May be a retarded human or perhaps a Genius ! Ha ha The benefit of the doubt is something nice to learn and apply.
Chess.com was registered in 1994 so I guess this is the oldest chess online site ever. It is great with lot of good opponents, thousands of members and very low cheating rate.... well well the benefit of the doubt !
I was just being silly and having fun with the farcical story. Trying to make chess.com a legend!
May 24, 2015
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#11
How come you know the exact date when Chess.com was registered on the
internet?
So, we should distinguish between when the domain was registered and when chess.com, the corporation, was up and running.
According to wikipedia:
The domain chess.com was originally set up in about 1995 by Aficionado, a company based in Berkeley, California, in order to sell a piece of chess tutoring software called "Chess Mentor".[4] In 2005, internet entrepreneur Erik Allebest and partner Jarom ("Jay") Severson purchased the domain name and assembled a team of software developers to redevelop the site as a chess portal. The site was relaunched in 2007.[2] Allebest plays chess at an amateur level.[5] The site was heavily promoted via social media and grew quickly, attracting mainly casual players.
You can review all the historical versions of chess.com by visiting the Wayback Machine.
Chess.com was originally registered to sell Chess Mentor courses. It began to take on its modern form in mid 2005 after the domain was bought from its original owners. Live chess was added in late 2008.
May 24, 2015
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#15
The 'domain' chess.com began in 1994 because of close rival Internet Chess Club used it in its first years
Interesting: wayback Machine recomended. 1996 is what it pops up. However I would say it started in 1995. I tested the site for other websites that I already know and it seems to begin tracking 1 year later. May be due to domain propagation delay? Anyways we are close to 1994-1995.
How come you know the exact date when Chess.com was registered on the
internet?
Google:WHOIS DOMAIN
Chess.com was founded in 1872. Chess was invented 6 years later.
And who is the oldest member?