As of February 28, 2014 at approximately 10:00 a.m. (PST), Activision shut down the Call of Duty: Elite website in favor of their mobile products.

Call of Duty Elite was to be featured on PC, in Call of Duty: Ghosts but it was instead announced by Activision that ELITE would be permanently shut down on February 28, 2014 in favor for the current Call of Duty app for Call of Duty Ghosts.

reaching master level performances in chess is to engage in at least 10 years or 10,000 hours of deliberate practice. Moreover, Ericsson claims that the primary source of individual differences in chess skill is deliberate practice time.

Anybody at around average intelligence can be good at chess, but when you're talking about the top 100 in the world all those people work hard so the only thing that can differentiate them is genetics. Absolutely.