InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to games@hexbear.netEnglish · 14 days agoHikaru Nakamura is setting speed chess records at chess.com. He's at 3400 and he's playing right now.www.chess.comexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down10
arrow-up151arrow-down1external-linkHikaru Nakamura is setting speed chess records at chess.com. He's at 3400 and he's playing right now.www.chess.comInevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to games@hexbear.netEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square21linkfedilink
minus-squaredaniyeg [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agohonestly i think half the chess.com evaluation is in their domain. i mean how much did they pay to secure that?
minus-squareRedSailsFan [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agoan eye watering sum presumably lol
minus-squaredaniyeg [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agothat’s a low bar for me honestly, anything above 50 dollars is eye watering in this economy
minus-squareRedSailsFan [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agohttps://www.chess.com/blog/erik/how-i-got-the-chess-com-domain-name TL;DR - I got the Chess.com domain name out of bankruptcy for $55,000 in 2005
minus-squaredaniyeg [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agoyep my eyes are watering alright. but it must be worth a lot more nowadays i image it would be easily x10 or more.
honestly i think half the chess.com evaluation is in their domain. i mean how much did they pay to secure that?
an eye watering sum presumably lol
that’s a low bar for me honestly, anything above 50 dollars is eye watering in this economy
https://www.chess.com/blog/erik/how-i-got-the-chess-com-domain-name
yep my eyes are watering alright. but it must be worth a lot more nowadays i image it would be easily x10 or more.