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Comment by TheRoque

7 days ago

True However a french chess streamer I follow had an interesting take: since Lichess is all free, all the content is computer generated, or low quality. Apparently, some content even was just stolen content from other paid platforms. His take is basically that Chess.com gives out money to many chess actors (teachers, coaches, book writers) while lichess is not helping the whole ecosystem make money. Anyways competition is good.

That’s fine by me: Not everything needs to be about money.

> Anyways competition is good.

I agree, and I have no issue with competition paid or free, but I’d have hoped that the paid one would at least also offer a better product.

I’m also to pay for chess courses! Chess.com is just not worth the price to me. I like their narrated game reviews slightly better than Lichess’s purely centipawn-driven mistake practice system, but everything else about their interface is much worse.