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One of the reasons I left chess.com is because players would get abusive if they didn't get their rematch.

In 2014 Lamborghini sold 2,530 units, whereas in the same year Ford sold 6,131,000 units worldwide. But the strawpoll currently says that 38% would buy the lambo. There is clearly a difference between…

Most people here will say they want the Lamborghini, but in reality they will buy a Ford because they don't have $840k to spare. This is why a survey won't answer your original question.

I help run a chess club and it would be useful if there was a way of getting the user names of local players, as these users might be interested in playing OTB. There are plenty of websites that are a…

Why not go and find the actual sales figures for all major car manufacturers? The results would be a lot more accurate than asking on a chess forum.

Another point is that most opening explorers are based on FIDE rated games and so after a few moves deep the sample size becomes statistically insignificant. With a database of online games, the quali…

I have to say that I have had far less abuse on lichess than when I played on chess.com On chess.com it seemed like I couldn't go for an evening without someone crying about losing, or whinging becaus…

The rating system is there to estimate the relative strengths of players, its not there to be used as a punishment mechanism. If you wish to punish someone then do it within the scoring system of the …

I have had a number of occasions where myself or an opponent has timed out for not moving in the first 15 seconds of a tournament game. However, I noticed that rating points are still exchanged in thi…