Ok, agreed. In general most lichess players don’t care. But just for the sake of curiosity. Besides, do we experience the same effects here?
www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/chess-is-booming-and-our-servers-are-struggling@Sarg0n said in #1:
> Besides, do we experience the same effects here?
Yes, just without the server problems:
lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/what-is-the-cause-of-recent-chess-boom also look here; GC just put an excellent elaboration out there:
youtu.be/jt8Y0vvDRYIThe app being at No 2 on the play store is significant. Just a shame that so many will be turned off by
chess.com crashes.
it would be interesting to know.
I did a quick search to see if anyone has made a site that tracks that sort of thing, couldn't find one.
looks like january always has more games played than december and febuary (just eyeballing games per month, even with febuary being a short month it looks like the number of games per day drops). The current month hasn't been made available in an archive yet so I can't see
as an aside, why do people like mittens? people have been able to play engines since forever. just goes to show what marketing does.
Karma's a bitch,
chess.com. You want to own chess, now choke on it.
I’ll take lichess any day.