Chess24.com

chess24.com is an Internet chess server in English, Spanish and German established in 2014[2] by German grandmaster Jan Gustafsson and Enrique Guzman.[3][4]

chess24.com
Type of site
Internet chess server
URLwww.chess24.com
Alexa rank 6,518 (January 2017)[1]
RegistrationYes
Launched2014
Current statusActive

Among people collaborating with chess24 are World Champions, Grandmasters and International Masters like Magnus Carlsen,[5] Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Francisco Vallejo,[6], David Anton Guijarro, Dorsa Derakhshani, Lawrence Trent, and Hou Yifan.[7]

chess24 provides live coverage of major international tournaments.[8] chess24 offers users the option of playing chess against each other using various time controls, playing with modified versions of Stockfish, joining informal online tournaments, as well as watching videos on chess. There are e-books 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.[9] Going premium allows deeper Stockfish analysis and also participation in events such as Banter Blitz, which allows Premium members to play with collaborators of chess24.

In March 2019, chess24 joined forces with Magnus Carlsen's company Play Magnus AS in a transaction that made the former chess24 owners the largest shareholders in Play Magnus.[4] [10]

Tournaments

From September 2019 to April 2020, chess24 held the first international Banter Blitz Cup, an online blitz chess tournament featuring players such as Magnus Carlsen, Gata Kamsky, Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa, Parham Maghsoodloo, David Antón Guijarro and Leinier Domínguez with a $50,000 prize pool for players and $5,000 for streamers.[11] It was won by Alireza Firouzja in the final against Magnus Carlsen.[12]

From April to May 2020, chess24 held the Magnus Carlsen Invitational, an online rapid chess tournament which was won by Magnus Carlsen.

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gollark: Heavpoot's Game (2) less so.
gollark: Heavpoot's Game (1) is definitely a thing which was written.
gollark: For example, I know a bit about C, Go and Java, so I can criticize them better than someone who doesn't.
gollark: Rust has, well, design.

See also

References
  1. "chess24.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2015-01-22.
  2. "Happy Birthday to chess24". chess24.com. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
  3. "About us". chess24.com. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  4. Bjerknes, Christian (2019-03-25). "Sjakkekspert inntar Magnus Carlsens spillselskap". www.dn.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2019-12-20.
  5. https://chess24.com/en/live/video/magnus-carlsen-on-the-grand-chess-tour---much-more
  6. https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/de.cisha.live-static-files/presskit/chess24com_presskit_en.pdf
  7. https://chess24.com/en/learn/advanced/video/hou-yifan-my-career-so-far/hou-yifan-introduction
  8. https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments
  9. https://chess24.com/premium
  10. McGourty, Colin (2019-03-15). "chess24 and Play Magnus join forces". chess24.com. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  11. Martínez, David (2019-09-25). "Banter Blitz Cup Schedule". chess24.com. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  12. Colin, McGourty (2020-04-16). "Firouzja beats Carlsen to win the Banter Blitz Cup". chess24.com. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
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