Today, I've reached the legends league but I find myself disappointed that after winning the competition chess.com has prepared for me it seems to be just a huge waste of time.
Just for the story, I even switched to blitz 3-0 in order to reach Legends club since it's the most efficient way to earn trophies and I absolutely hated it. The events that were "promised" seem to end with the 50k champion competition they've had. And although I knew there wasn't much to expect from it now. It's disappointing to reach the goal and see nothing but an invitation to a club that no one who's there seems to even like it.
It takes a lot of willpower, time and even luck to get here. And I think that even a little message from chess.com showing some appreciation towards the players could have been nice.
I love chess and I don't mind playing on this site. But at the end of day my goal is to improve, they're aware of it and make a business surrounding this core. With their puzzles lessons and analyzer they're luring us to buy their membership showing it everywhere. (I think it's ok but what I'm trying to say is that they limit our ability to improve on purpose so the longer we play our mindset would be to turn into their client which I don't really like especially since I know another site that offer what they do for free)
But here they seem to make us compete for nothing and the rules were unfair to begin with.
As mentioned earlier the best ways to earn trophies were to play blitz 3-0 or bullet 1-0 which gave the best trophies per time we've spent which pretty much forced me to quit rapid at some point since I had to do so in order to win the competition which just shows that one goal is that they want more players to play in the pool and of course for competition they wanted us to waste a lot of time and work hard for this.
And at the start you could have cheated with a quick rematch lowering your rating or play multiple games at the same time and so on. Which simply shows how unprepared (or even "unserious") they were towards this event.
For me, this site doesn't seem to treat their players with respect nor does it appreciate their community. The way they treat us reminds me of the term "Rat Race" (definition - the unpleasant life of people who have jobs that require them to work very hard in order to compete with others for money, power, status, etc.) It's obvious that if we're joining a competition we're going to work hard to get through the top but we were all signed in without getting asked + I am not sure about everyone but I simply love playing chess and I started playing on this site not so I would start competing in a time format that I don't enjoy and waste my time to reach a league that provides me with nothing but a cool winged trophy when people clicks to my profile.
As a person who poured a lot of effort on this site for the past 1.5 year it seems that we are nothing but "potential clients" for them. Still, I thought this league thing was some kind of a chance for those who weren't interested in membership or simply don't/can't afford it yet loves to play chess on their site. But, so far the only event was for champion league and none for legend league and from how unprepared they were at the start I think it's safe to assume that they simply wanted to promote the blitz and bullet format because it's known to have less cheaters in these areas which somewhat makes sense. See how many players are playing on the site and on what basis which brings the leagues. And most importantly our time after this I guess they would have an interesting data about how many games they've had.
Lastly, I want to mention that I believe competition is good and it improves us a lot not specifically in chess but everything. (regards whether we like it or not that's how we're made) But, I guess many could agree playing blitz non-stop for hours without analyzing your game could potentially harm your play at a longer time control and it's most likely just a huge waste of time.
This site limits our capability to review/train/learn and properly if we're not in their membership program. but now they're even making us compete to waste our time and at least forcing me to play in a format that I don't like for them to collect data and advertise themselves.
I wrote a lot but my point is this site now wants us to have a psychological change instead of enjoying chess to just being addicted to it. I'm so disappointed since I was kind of expecting them to have an arena each week where the winner gets diamond membership but it doesn't seem to be the same for them so far and if more and if they're not doing it from the start for the people who worked so hard to reach there in the hardest of time to reach the league I truly believe it tells at least one thing about them. It really isn't worth it and I feel as if I'll keep playing on this site. I will simply start hating chess some day.
I'm truly starting to wonder whether I've chosen the wrong site to enjoy the game more so I would definitely won't recommend any friend of this site anymore.
The competition ended in early February. You decided to go for Legend only two weeks ago, long after the contest ended.
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Today, I've reached the legends league but I find myself disappointed that after winning the competition chess.com has prepared for me it seems to be just a huge waste of time.
Just for the story, I even switched to blitz 3-0 in order to reach Legends club since it's the most efficient way to earn trophies and I absolutely hated it. The events that were "promised" seem to end with the 50k champion competition they've had. And although I knew there wasn't much to expect from it now. It's disappointing to reach the goal and see nothing but an invitation to a club that no one who's there seems to even like it.
It takes a lot of willpower, time and even luck to get here. And I think that even a little message from chess.com showing some appreciation towards the players could have been nice.
I love chess and I don't mind playing on this site. But at the end of day my goal is to improve, they're aware of it and make a business surrounding this core. With their puzzles lessons and analyzer they're luring us to buy their membership showing it everywhere. (I think it's ok but what I'm trying to say is that they limit our ability to improve on purpose so the longer we play our mindset would be to turn into their client which I don't really like especially since I know another site that offer what they do for free)
But here they seem to make us compete for nothing and the rules were unfair to begin with.
As mentioned earlier the best ways to earn trophies were to play blitz 3-0 or bullet 1-0 which gave the best trophies per time we've spent which pretty much forced me to quit rapid at some point since I had to do so in order to win the competition which just shows that one goal is that they want more players to play in the pool and of course for competition they wanted us to waste a lot of time and work hard for this.
And at the start you could have cheated with a quick rematch lowering your rating or play multiple games at the same time and so on. Which simply shows how unprepared (or even "unserious") they were towards this event.
For me, this site doesn't seem to treat their players with respect nor does it appreciate their community. The way they treat us reminds me of the term "Rat Race" (definition - the unpleasant life of people who have jobs that require them to work very hard in order to compete with others for money, power, status, etc.) It's obvious that if we're joining a competition we're going to work hard to get through the top but we were all signed in without getting asked + I am not sure about everyone but I simply love playing chess and I started playing on this site not so I would start competing in a time format that I don't enjoy and waste my time to reach a league that provides me with nothing but a cool winged trophy when people clicks to my profile.
As a person who poured a lot of effort on this site for the past 1.5 year it seems that we are nothing but "potential clients" for them. Still, I thought this league thing was some kind of a chance for those who weren't interested in membership or simply don't/can't afford it yet loves to play chess on their site. But, so far the only event was for champion league and none for legend league and from how unprepared they were at the start I think it's safe to assume that they simply wanted to promote the blitz and bullet format because it's known to have less cheaters in these areas which somewhat makes sense. See how many players are playing on the site and on what basis which brings the leagues. And most importantly our time after this I guess they would have an interesting data about how many games they've had.
Lastly, I want to mention that I believe competition is good and it improves us a lot not specifically in chess but everything. (regards whether we like it or not that's how we're made) But, I guess many could agree playing blitz non-stop for hours without analyzing your game could potentially harm your play at a longer time control and it's most likely just a huge waste of time.
This site limits our capability to review/train/learn and properly if we're not in their membership program. but now they're even making us compete to waste our time and at least forcing me to play in a format that I don't like for them to collect data and advertise themselves.
I wrote a lot but my point is this site now wants us to have a psychological change instead of enjoying chess to just being addicted to it. I'm so disappointed since I was kind of expecting them to have an arena each week where the winner gets diamond membership but it doesn't seem to be the same for them so far and if more and if they're not doing it from the start for the people who worked so hard to reach there in the hardest of time to reach the league I truly believe it tells at least one thing about them. It really isn't worth it and I feel as if I'll keep playing on this site. I will simply start hating chess some day.
I'm truly starting to wonder whether I've chosen the wrong site to enjoy the game more so I would definitely won't recommend any friend of this site anymore.