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Chess.com is an Internet chess community and social networking website. It is the most-visited chess-related website on the Internet and claims to have more than 8 million members.

History

The domain chess.com was originally set up in about 1995 by Aficionado, a Berkeley, California based company, in order to sell a piece of chess tutoring software called "Chess Mentor". In 2005, internet entrepreneur Erik Allebest and partner Jarom ("Jay") Severson purchased the domain name and assembled a team of software developers to redevelop the site as a chess portal. The site was relaunched in 2007. An amateur chess player, Allebest also owns the domain exercise.com. The site was heavily promoted via social media and grew quickly, attracting mainly casual players. In 2009, chess.com announced a takeover of a similar chess social networking site, chesspark.com. The manual Chess for Dummies, in March 2011, made Chess Mentor its top recommendation for chess instructional software.

In October 2013, chess.com acquired the popular Dutch-based chess news site chessvibes.com. As of October 2013, it is one of the top 2000 sites on the internet in the Alexa rankings, and the top-ranked chess site.

Features

Visitors to the site can play both live and correspondence style chess games, referred to on the site as "turn-based". Players may also play against chess engines, and premium subscribers may participate in voting games, in which players form teams and vote on the best move.

On the site, players are able to learn to play at any level, take part in discussion forums and watch chess events.

The company publishes a large number of articles on a variety of chess-related topics, including chess strategy, opening theory and history. Regular contributors include Gregory Serper, Bruce Pandolfini, Dan Heisman, Jeremy Silman, Petar Genov and Natalia Pogonina.

Chess.com also runs the site chesskid.com for users aged 13 and under. Chesskid.com runs an online championship which is recognized by the United States Chess Federation.

Controversies

In November 2013, Henry Despres from New York sued Chess.com for $200,000, alleging assault, libel and slander after he was placed on the site's public blacklist for cheating. He claimed lost income from chess lessons and book sales. The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

References

  1. ^ "Chess.com: A Social Networking Site For…Well You Can Probably Guess". TechCrunch. 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  2. "Top Sites in:All Categories > Games > Board Games > Abstract > Battle Games > Chess". Alexa.com. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  3. "Chess Mentor by Aficionado". Web.archive.org. 1997-07-10. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  4. "USCF MSA - Member Details (General)". Uschess.org. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  5. Michael Rucker (2011-12-23). "Interview with Erik Allebest about Web Entrepreneurship | Behavior Change & Self-improvement Technology & Innovation". Michaelrucker.com. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  6. "Chesspark And Chess.com Put Their Pawns Together". TechCrunch. 2009-12-22. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  7. Eade, James (8 March 2011). Chess For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  8. "BREAKING: Chess.com to acquire". ChessVibes. 2006-02-06. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  9. "Chess.com Site Info". Alexa.com. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  10. "Chess.com, red social para los jugadores de ajedrez". GenBeta.com. 8 July 2007. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
  11. "The United States Chess Federation - Nation's Top Chess Kids to Battle in Online Invitational". Uschess.org. 2012-05-31. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  12. "Bay Area kids look to checkmate opponents from a computer screen". ContraCostaTimes.com. 2013-06-15. Retrieved 2013-11-30.
  13. "Chess coach: I'm not a cheater!". New York Post. 16 November 2013.
  14. "Despres v. Chess.com LLC". Justia. Retrieved 4 December 2013.

External links

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