Chess.com reaches a new milestone as it approaches its 20th birthday.
Chess.comThe electronic chess platform founded in 2005 and started in 2007, exceeded 200 million members. Of these 200 million members, 1.5 million pay users. More than 20 million chess games are played daily on the platform.
“[Chess has] He has this resilience to this, “said Albert Cheng, the chief official of Chess.com.” He has played for over 1,500 years, which is just amazing. And even chess.com is not a brand new company. It has been over for almost 20 years. He feels really dynamic. ”
The company has expanded a lot from its roots as an online forum for IRL chess players to discuss their matches. Chess.com now offers full chess matches against other people or bots, everyday games and puzzles, chess world news, the ability to flow chess competitions and much more.
Cheng credits the continued innovation of the company’s products as one of the reasons that has seen strong and steady growth. For example, the company has released a AI game review feature in 2021 – yes, there is always an AI angle – using AI to summarize how a player did in a game and highlight possible improvements. He added that the majority of new users on chess.com are beginners and while the platform is designed for players of all levels, such features can help promote a love of game for these new members.
The company has also managed to drive the increased interest in chess in recent years. Chess, along with many other games, gained a lot of popularity during the pandemic, as people were looking for online ways to entertain themselves through Covid-19 Lockdowns. In response, chess.com had to bulk its infrastructure in order to support the new demand.
Miniseries focusing on Netflix chess, “The Gambit of the Queen”, have further fueled the interest when it was released in 2020. Since then, many events have caused a new interest in the game. In 2022, the chess world moved by a cheating scandal which includes five times world champion Magnus Carlsen. The competitive chess will also appear in the Esports World Cup for the first time this year.
The game has also won more and more worldwide, Ceng said, with about 85% of new US -based users, today’s world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, greeting from India.
Cheng-the former head of the product, growth and revenue by Grammarly and Duolingo-attacked that he seems to hear every day for a new “high profile” chess and reported the recent chess match between the F1 racing stars Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc Playing chessboard on the internet against each other.
“I think the sky is the limit here and as much as we can continue to grow the game by utilizing this organic interest that already exists in these neighboring communities, we will be foolish not to explore it,” Cheng said. “So I’m really excited about these opportunities.”
