TCEC - advertisements

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Please write what is the ad revenue of the TCEC tournament achieved by https://www.chess.com/ Thank you in advance for any information.

[dkappe]

Please write what is the ad revenue of the TCEC tournament achieved by https://www.chess.com/ Thank you in advance for any information.

These are two different entities. Chess.com has its own series of engine tournaments. So the answer is $0.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

These are two different entities. Chess.com has its own series of engine tournaments. So the answer is $0.

You write nonsense. This is why ads are displayed during the tournament. Let's get all the ads out.

[Madeleine Birchfield]

Please write what is the ad revenue of the TCEC tournament achieved by https://www.chess.com/ Thank you in advance for any information.

Dkappe is right.

The TCEC tournament website is at https://tcec-chess.com/ and https://www.chessdom.org/ and the TCEC tournament archive is at https://tcec-chess.com/#x=archive. There are two ads for the TCEC sponsor Chessdom (https://www.chessdom.com/) on the page. You could ask the TCEC administrators and tournament directors on their discord server, which is linked from the website https://www.chessdom.org/, about the ad revenue TCEC receives from the Chessdom ads.

Chess.com (https://www.chess.com/) is a completely different entity from TCEC (https://tcec-chess.com/). Chess.com runs its own tournament called the Chess.com Computer Chess Championship, whose website is at https://www.chess.com/computer-chess-championship.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Then you need to remove those ads and not make money from it. Additionally, I see other ads on the site.

[dkappe]

Then you need to remove those ads and not make money from it. Additionally, I see other ads on the site.

You had a question and I answered it. Chess.com and tcec are not affiliated. Chess.com therefore makes no money from tcec. TCEC, however, does. I assume they use that for their operating costs. Powerful servers aren’t free.

If you want no ads, perhaps you can donate some money to tcec or buy a twitch subscription.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

Everything is supposed to be free for people with no ads. If they can't make a tournament ad-free, have them remove the tournament from that side. Because it is shameful to charge money.

[dkappe]

Everything is supposed to be free for people with no ads. If they can't make a tournament ad-free, have them remove the tournament from that side. Because it is shameful to charge money.

It seems you are angry about these advertisements and that you’ve come here to complain and lash out at people. But no one you’ve engaged with has anything to do with running TCEC or has any power to change things.

As for the substance of your complaint, why should everything be free, especially if it costs lots of money in hardware and data center costs? Why should they cancel their tournament because they use ads to underwrite their costs? Why is it shameful?

You make no sense. You object to the ads? Don’t follow the tournament.

[Krzysztof Grzelak]

It seems you are angry about these advertisements and that you’ve come here to complain and lash out at people. But no one you’ve engaged with has anything to do with running TCEC or has any power to change things.

Everyone should be angry at such unworthy human behavior.

As for the substance of your complaint, why should everything be free, especially if it costs lots of money in hardware and data center costs? Why should they cancel their tournament because they use ads to underwrite their costs? Why is it shameful?
You make no sense. You object to the ads? Don’t follow the tournament.

You write nonsense once again. Recall how Mr. Martin Thoresen did the tournaments. The fact that someone makes their equipment available does not mean that they have to earn money on others. If he doesn't do it for free, he shouldn't do it at all. You are a puppet in the hands of TCEC.

[Sopel]

imagine not using an ad blocker in 2021