True quote from a guy on ICC (last night) who has spent the last few months dropping from 1600+ standard, to ~1200 standard. Was once an 1800 USCF.
It's amazing that this stigma still exists. In some cases, you see people on chess.com saying it's soft here because "my rating is 200 points higher there than on Chess.com". They didn't even look to see what kind of system is used here.
I play everywhere and this site is definitely not soft anymore. I'm finding some of the best long chess online here. Just as good as ICC quality in many cases and you can get games 10x faster here. Games of any length.
It's nice to haveLichess + other networks but I just thought I'd share this tidbit with the community here since this site has evolved so much over the years and is now full of IM's, FM's, and GM's.
It's amazing that this stigma still exists. In some cases, you see people on chess.com saying it's soft here because "my rating is 200 points higher there than on Chess.com". They didn't even look to see what kind of system is used here.
I play everywhere and this site is definitely not soft anymore. I'm finding some of the best long chess online here. Just as good as ICC quality in many cases and you can get games 10x faster here. Games of any length.
It's nice to haveLichess + other networks but I just thought I'd share this tidbit with the community here since this site has evolved so much over the years and is now full of IM's, FM's, and GM's.