Is Chess.com membership worth it?

Pls provide your thoughts.

You have been playing here for a year. 

Is there anything you wish you had unlimited access to?

Lessons?

Game Review?

Puzzles?

Yeah.. puzzles, lessons and drills

Fair Play

Fair Play stats for November:

• 35,883 Fair Play closures (including 4 titled players)
• 77,905 mute actions
• 66,734 accounts muted
• 67,994 abuse closures

At 50 cents per day, yeah I think it is well worth it.

Justbefair: did you just post something written white on white? Or does it appear different on your screen?

Also. 35 thousand accounts closed for cheating in one month? I find it a bit hard to believe.

In this day and age I do not think you will find one chess site that does not have cheaters.

I also find the 35,000 hard to believe. 

It's black type on my screen.   I use the Light UI.

It isn't that hard to believe when you look at the history of closed accounts in the many monthly reports.

• 35,000 in November https://www.chess.com/article/view/chesscom-update-november
• 31,000 in October. https://www.chess.com/article/view/chesscom-update-october-2022
• 27,000 in September https://www.chess.com/article/view/chesscom-update-september-2022

and so on.

You can get lessons, tactics and analysis for free on lichess.org.  

The only reason to pay for membership,(I pay for membership to chess.com and chesstempo.com), is because it is nice to have everything on one site.   All my games are here, so it is easy to do analysis, lessons, etc. 

The real question tho, is are you going to use it?  

I only use puzzles and game analysis, and I've been thinking of canceling my membership. Does anyone know how many free game analysis there is in a week/day?

1 game analysis , 3 rated puzzles, 1 puzzle rush per day for basic members!

Thanks Bheeshmaparva 🙂

It's a personal choice. I just feel it's of no use if you ask for people's opinions. You would rather get more confused. Because, there will always be people on both the sides. So, be clear with what you exactly want and you already know the benefits you get with membership, now it must be easy for you to take the decision. I was a basic member initially and now a diamond member. So, I know both the sides. I was clear with what I wanted. I knew I love solving puzzles and that's what made me go for premium membership. 

The OP has no membership and has an 80% win rate in bullet.

What has membership got to do with number of cheaters? You will come across cheaters even if you are a basic member! You just have to be optimistic because majority of the members here are genuine and I am not telling that there's no cheating at all. It's a very small part and the site takes care of it. 🙂

For all membership people you have unlimited game analysis. You have made a smart decision to upgrade to platinum. Upgrading to Diamond just really shows your support to chess.com. (I accidentally upgraded to diamond.) It costs almost twice the amount than platinum and only unlocks things that you won't be using very much. Platinum is enough for me because unlimited puzzle battles, unlimited puzzles, unlimited game reviews, same vacation time and max vacation time in daily chess, auto-timeout protection, and many other things that are the same as diamond. 

The suspicion of cheating is common, actual cheating not so much.

"Cheating in chess happens when someone decides that they do not want to play using their own brain, and they turn to using help from a friend or a chess engine to find better moves. This is obviously unfair to the other player, and ruins the experience of the game. It's a selfish and thoughtless thing to do. Fortunately, our research shows that fewer than 0.2% of players cheat in online chess, so it is much less common than some people think."

https://www.chess.com/article/view/online-chess-cheating#:~:text=It's%20a%20selfish%20and%20thoughtless,common%20than%20some%20people%20think.

Cheating speaks fot itself

Thanks binomine and Bheeshmaparva for your opinions

I would suggest you to have a look at the no. of new users signing up every month! Or just look at the total no. of users on this site. It's approaching 100 million soon