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Chess.com
Sign in to saveChess.com is an internet chess server. The largest chess platform in the world, the site operates on a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and others are available via subscription. Users can play live online chess against other users in daily, rapid, blitz, or bullet time controls, with a number of chess variants available. Additionally, the platform offers play against chess engines, computer analysis, chess puzzles, and teaching resources.
Key facts
- Dot com company.name
- Chess.com, LLC
- Dot com company.logo
- Chesscom logo wordmark outline flat.svg
- Dot com company.screenshot
- Chess.com Homepage (as of December 2017).PNG
- Dot com company.caption
- Chess.com homepage
- Dot com company.company_type
- Internet chess server
- Dot com company.language_count
- 57
- Dot com company.language
- Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese
- Dot com company.advertising
- Displayed to anonymous users and free account-holders only; paying account-holders are not shown ads
- Dot com company.commercial
- Yes
- Dot com company.location_country
- United States
- Dot com company.CEO
- Erik Allebest
- Dot com company.industry
- Online game
- Dot com company.num_employees
- 650+
- Dot com company.registration
- Optional
- Dot com company.num_users
- 200 million+
- Dot com company.current_status
- Active
- Dot com company.type
- Internet chess server
- Software.title
- Torch
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.schoolschoolschool.com
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- registration page URL
- www.chess.com/register
- translation contribution URL
- crowdin.com/project/chesscom-mobile
- publication date
- 2007-05-00
- Stack Exchange tag
- chess.stackexchange.com/tags/chess.com
- inception
- 2005-00-00
- Alexa rank
- 976
- search formatter URL
- www.chess.com/topic/$1?search=1
- social media followers
- 2640000
- login URL
- www.chess.com/login
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28 sectionsContents
- History
- Founding
- Growth in the 2010s
- Response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Chess cheating controversy
- Chess.com Global Championship
- Torch
- Subsidiary companies
- ChessKid.com
- Play Magnus Group
- Tournaments and events
- Speed Chess Championship
- Tournament formula
- Winners of Speed Chess Championships
- Daily Chess Championships
- Tournament formula
- Winners of Daily Chess Championships
- PRO Chess League
- Winners of PRO Chess League
- Titled Tuesday
- Death Matches
- Chess.com Computer Chess Championship
- PogChamps
- Coaches
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Chess.com is an internet chess server. The largest chess platform in the world, the site operates on a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and others are available via subscription. Users can play live online chess against other users in daily, rapid, blitz, or bullet time controls, with a number of chess variants available. Additionally, the platform offers play against chess engines, computer analysis, chess puzzles, and teaching resources.
Chess.com reached 200 million users in early 2025, and had about 11 million daily active users as of April 2023. Chess.com has hosted online tournaments, including Titled Tuesdays, the PRO Chess League, the Speed Chess Championships, PogChamps, Online Chess Olympiads, and computer vs computer events.