Command line is just one way to use the telnet protocol . ICC ' s initial implementation used a command line . Now , they have gone beyond that . There are a lot of interfaces that let you play on ICC , from things like Jin and Lantern , to purely webbased ones to things like Dasher and Blitzin . Again , you haven ' t shown any features that chess . com has that ICC couldn ' t implement on top of telnet . ignorant simpleton . I ' m not . Uh , yes you are dude . You ' re also too ignorant to realize when you ' re arguing with someone far more knowledgeable than you are . Chess . com bans paying users constantly . They even do it publically . This is just untrue . I said paying users . They ban free users . Want to see a paying player who cheats that hasn ' t been banned ? look at magbarmorad . Go play him a few times by yourself and lose then use a computer and I bet you ' ll get a draw . He even admitted to me that he doesn ' t always play the best move just to avoid computer detection . As if there isn ' t some topic chess . com has a video on that ICC doesn ' t . Topics ? Like what ? Name a topic . I ' ll find a video on ICC ' s library discussing it . but I was simply listing reasons why most people don ' t even consider it when deciding where to play . Your reasons didn ' t quite work out .