Itude was a great person on chess.com, from being funny, chatty, and just straight-up nice. Especially his gifting of free memberships. He has been on chess.com for at least 7/8 years and now, he has gone from hero, to zero.

He has worked hard for the community, gained so many message points on his profile than we ever would in our lifetime. Him, his cat and his pet rock Rocky was the pinnacle of this.

I cannot comprehend what message he has posted to get a 6 month mute, but I have never known him to be a insulting or hurtful person, he has always been sympathetic and very popular, I'm sure all of you will agree, he would never insult anybody without a provocation.

Even so, a 6-month mute is too much! If anything, it should be a day or two? We cannot abandon the legacy of Itude. Chess.com only cares about what bad things they have done, and never focusses on the good things that Itude has done, donated free memberships for people to study chess more and just be the light in the forums we all need.

I don't care if chess.com deletes this. I don't care if I get hate comments on chess.com like I always do. I don't care if this sounds cringy. I don't care if Itude doesn't come back. If he does, I'm sure all of us will be very happy. If he doesn't, please, could we all do our bit for Itude's memory, even as simple as donating one free month of membership to your friends or family, or just spreading the #ItudeLegacy in your posts in this forum.

Chess.com has absolutely ruined this, let's no longer accept this and help make a new Itude, but we stand together. Please, I beg you all, help other people who aren't as lucky and donate a free membership or just friend them. Itude was a joyful person, let's be joyful in replace of him.

He may be gone, but in our hearts, he will always be here. Please, in respect for him, do something kind, not only to the chess.com community, but something in general, such as picking up litter and helping someone cross the road and so on.

If you can, please post a picture here of it to show our unity.

Kind Regards.

ChimmyChim7

Jian Guan

#FreeItude

Itude Fan Club RIP Itude Hi melmothy

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