How Chess.com was found

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Hii!, to start things out, i am very sorry for not posting blogs lately. I had been thinking of ideas for my blogs. This blog is on a bio of chess.com. it's founder it's history and other things if you want part 2 you can comment.



So,the founder of chess.com is Erik allebest and jay serverson and they founded it in May 2007
CCO of chess.com is Erik allebest and Daniel rensuh.

CMO of chess.com is Brenian klain.

It has 200+ employees, it's headquarters located in USA

And has 77+ million user (whoa so much)

History of the chess.com

1995: The domain Chess.com was originally set up by Aficionado, a company based in Berkeley, California, to sell a piece of chess tutoring software called "Chess Mentor".
2005: Internet entrepreneur Erik Allebest and partner Jarom ("Jay") Severson bought the domain name and assembled a team of software developers to redevelop the site as a chess portal.

2007: The site was relaunched.The site was heavily promoted via social media.
2009: Chess.com announced a takeover of a similar chess social networking site, chesspark.com. Chesspark founders Jack Moffitt and Brian Zisk had moved to work on a web search startup.

October 2013: Chess.com acquired the Amsterdam-based chess news site chessvibes.com, which provided coverage for chess tournaments. It was founded and owned by Dutch chess journalist Peter Doggers in February 2006.
2014: The site announced that over a billion live games had been played on the site, including 100 million correspondence games.
January

2016: Chess.com announced "v3", the two-year overhaul of its previous interface. The site introduced new features including computer analysis of games, and the chess variants of crazyhouse, three-check chess, king of the hill, chess960 and bughouse.
June

2017: The 2,147,483,647th (= 231-1) game was played, which caused the iOS app to stop working for those with 32-bit Apple devices. This occurred because of an integer overflow problem whereby the number was too large to be represented in the number of storage bits that were used.
May

2018: Chess.com announced that it had acquired the 3300+ Elo-rated commercial chess engine Komodo, then ranked 3rd behind Stockfish and Houdini.In conjunction, the Komodo team announced the addition of the probabilistic method of Monte Carlo tree search machine learning, the same methods used by the recent chess projects AlphaZero and Leela Chess Zero.
November

2020: Chess.com acquired the rights to broadcast the World Chess Championship
2021, which is broadcast on live streaming platform Twitch.

Mattew

2023: interesting updates

Choclatelordofsquirells

worst updates honestly

brianchesscake
Choclatelordofsquirells wrote:

worst updates honestly

Tubbsfan
Choclatelordofsquirells wrote:

worst updates honestly

mittens was cool tho

Choclatelordofsquirells

oh yeah mittens. he was interesting

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