Kasparov Chess is a

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.Chessbase: Vivendi and Garry Kasparov team up
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Garry Kasparov Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster, former World Chess Champion, writer, political activist and commentator. His peak Elo rating system, rating of 2851, achieved in 1999, was the hi ...

is affiliated with this

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Early history

KasparovChess.com domain was first used to launch Garry Kasparov's chess website in early 2000. To commemorate its opening, Kasparov played a simul with around 30 junior players from around the world, many of them online on his own chess server in 2000. Later, KasparovChess.com hosted a tournament of junior players. Sometime after, the site became inactive, until this domain was used again in 2021.

Financing

Kasparov Chess is financed by private investors and

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, through its subsidiary ''Keysquare'',Vivendi And Chess Legend Garry Kasparov Team Up To Launch Online Platform Kasparovchess.com
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headquartered in Paris, France.Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform
/ref> In October 2019, Keysquare was allocated a capital investment of €3.5 million

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s from Vivendi to start the project.Chess Tech: Kasparovchess 2.0
/ref> Kasparov Chess has a

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business model with a free option for some chess content coupled with a premium option charge of $13.99 monthly or $119.99 for a yearly subscription for all the available chess content.Chess.com Kasparov Relaunches Online Platform
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Chess content

Kasparov Chess offers

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s and a chess masterclass taught by Kasparov; however, some of these features are only available to members with a paid subscription.Kasparov Chess
/ref> At the launch of the company in April 2021, there will be available 50,000 exercises, 700 lessons and 400 hours of videos.Tech Crunch: Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform
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Multimedia

Kasparov Chess is utilizing

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to host Discord software.TGR: After seeing its impact during the pandemic, world champion Kasparov embraces the technology and introduces his own chess platform
/ref> Discord is group-chatting

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that provides members with a place to build communities and

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with text-chat, voice-chat, video-chat and to share

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Competition

In order to establish itself as a mainstream chess platform and a profit-making venture, Kasparov Chess will have to compete against many well-established

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. These include entirely free online chess servers, such as

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and

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, and the several commercial chess communities including

Chess.com Chess.com is an internet chess server, news website and social networking website. The site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and others are available for accounts with subscriptions. Live online chess can be play ...

Chess24 chess24.com is an Internet chess server in English and nine other languages, established in 2014 by German grandmaster Jan Gustafsson and Enrique Guzman. Among people collaborating with chess24 are World Champions, Grandmasters and International ...

FIDE Online Arena The FIDE Online Arena is the International Chess Federation's (FIDE) official exclusive Internet chess server devoted to chess playing and related activities. A test version of the server began on August 8, 2013; the fully operational version was ...

Internet Chess Club The Internet Chess Club (ICC) is a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. ICC had over 30,000 subscribing members in 2005.John Black, Martin Cochran, Martin Ryan Gardner"Lessons Learned ...

and

Playchess Playchess is a commercial Internet chess server managed by ChessBase devoted to the play and discussion of chess and chess variants. As of February 2011, Playchess has over 31,000 players online, including many internationally titled players who ...

offering similar

subscriptions for chess content as Kasparov Chess. In 1999, Garry Kasparov and

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investors attempted to establish a commercial online chess club called ''Kasparov Chess Online'' that never reached a profitable status and became

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in 2002.

External links

Kasparov Chess - Homepage

References

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