chess24.com is an

Internet chess server An Internet chess server (ICS) is an external server that provides the facility to play, discuss, and view the board game of chess over the Internet. The term specifically refers to facilities for connecting players through a variety of graphical ...

in English and nine other languages, established in 2014 by German grandmaster

Jan Gustafsson Jan Gustafsson (born 25 June 1979) is a German chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2003. He is a co-founder of Chess24.com, and regularly analyses and commentates games for the website. Biography Gustafsson was born ...

and Enrique Guzman. Among people collaborating with chess24 are World Champions, Grandmasters and International Masters including

Magnus Carlsen Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the reigning five-time World Chess Champion. He is also a three-time World Rapid Chess Champion and five-time World Blitz Chess Champion. Carlsen has ...

Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating ...

, Peter Svidler,

Rustam Kasimdzhanov Rustam Kasimdzhanov; russian: Рустам Касымджанов (born 5 December 1979) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Champion (2004-05). He was Asian champion in 1998. In addition to his tournament play, Kasimdzhan ...

, Francisco Vallejo Pons, David Antón Guijarro, Laurent Fressinet,

Dorsa Derakhshani Dorsa Derakhshani ( fa, درسا درخشانی; born 1998) is an Iranian-American chess player. She was awarded the titles Woman Grandmaster and International Master in 2016. Chess career Dorsa Derakhshani won three gold medals at the Asian Yout ...

, Lawrence Trent,

Sopiko Guramishvili Sopiko Guramishvili ( ka, სოფიკო გურამიშვილი; born 1 January 1991) is a Georgian-Dutch chess player, author, and commentator who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Having ...

, and Hou Yifan. In March 2019, chess24 merged with Magnus Carlsen's company Play Magnus AS in a transaction that made the former chess24 owners the largest shareholders in Play Magnus.

Features

A 2020 review by IM Luis Torres put chess24 as one of the three most popular internet chess servers, alongside chess.com and

lichess Lichess (; ) is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play rated games. Lichess is ad-free and ...

. Similarly to other chess servers, chess24 offers the ability to play online against other users or bots, enter online tournaments hosted on the site and view your own statistics. Torres ranked chess.com the best overall, but chess24 as the best for improving one's game. chess24 offers users the option of playing chess against each other using various time controls, playing with modified versions of

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, joining informal online tournaments, as well as watching videos on chess. There are

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s about many chess topics, online chess courses available for members, and a daily news feature. There is also an option of "going premium" (paying for membership) on chess24. Going premium allows deeper

analysis and also participation in events such as Banter Blitz, which allows Premium members to play with collaborators of chess24. Reviews have tended to favour rivals Chess.com and

Lichess Lichess (; ) is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play rated games. Lichess is ad-free and ...

in terms of the playing experience, while suggesting that chess24 has richer educational video content.

Tournaments

chess24 provides live coverage of major international tournaments on the website and also on YouTube with commentary by players such as

Yasser Seirawan Yasser Seirawan ( ar, ياسر سيروان; born March 24, 1960) is a Syrian-born American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Seirawan is also a published chess author a ...

Peter Leko Peter Leko ( hu, Lékó Péter; born September 8, 1979) is a Hungarian chess player and commentator. He became the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994. He narrowly missed winning the Classical World Chess Championship 2004: the match was dra ...

, and Tania Sachdev. They also host and sponsor their own events, especially since their acquisition by Play Magnus AS. From September 2019 to April 2020, chess24 held the first international Banter Blitz Cup, an online

blitz chess Fast chess, also known as Speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than normal tournament time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blit ...

tournament featuring players such as

Gata Kamsky Gata Kamsky ( tt-Cyrl, Гата Камский, italics=no; russian: Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion. Kamsky reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Ch ...

, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa,

Parham Maghsoodloo Parham Maghsoodloo ( fa, پرهام مقصودلو, born 11 August 2000) is an Iranian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2016. Maghsoodloo is a three-time Iranian national champion and became the World Ju ...

, David Antón Guijarro and Leinier Domínguez with a $50,000 prize pool for players and $5,000 for streamers. It was won by

Alireza Firouzja Alireza Firouzja ( fa, علی‌رضا فیروزجا, ; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian and French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest ever 2800- rated player, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months ...

in the final against

. From April to May 2020, chess24 held the

Magnus Carlsen Invitational The Magnus Carlsen Invitational 2020 was an online chess tournament that ran from 18 April to 3 May 2020 as the first round of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour. In addition to the world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, who organized the tournament, F ...

, an online rapid chess tournament which was won by Magnus Carlsen. This was expanded to form a conceptual tour including the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge, and culminating in a Grand Final, featuring Magnus Carlsen and

Hikaru Nakamura Christopher Hikaru Nakamura2021 edition was hosted in March 2021, also online, and saw the favourite Magnus Carlsen being knocked out in the semifinal by Ian Nepomniatchi, who eventually lost in the final to Dutch Grandmaster and World Championship Candidate

Anish Giri Anish Kumar Giri ( ne, अनीश कुमार गिरी; russian: Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Russian-born Dutch chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the title Grandmaster at ...

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