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Chess.com

Who runs Chess.com, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online chess alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
–
Closest alternative
Lichess

Measured from Chess.com’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Chess.com

Chess.com chess.com

Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 250 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!

Wikidata: online chess-playing site

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Chess.com tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 16 alternatives below has fewer; 10 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
OneTrust

We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Chess.com’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Chess.com

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Chess.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.

No ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

1 of the 60 sites closest to Chess.com matches.

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Chess.com’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Chess.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

What changed

Price and policy history →

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Chess.com adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack and search numbers · 11 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,216
Vector
384-d
Query
37 ms

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Cookie consent
  • OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
Payments
  • Adyen page source: checkoutshopper-live.adyen.com
Security
CDN
Languages & backends
  • PHP cookie PHPSESSID
Email hosting
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=TuqoJ/o0yXYnDqzcxNZoISmTHtCfDC/3l/XR5r/…
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: n7BdKb0xn1E9tRJXvmMxE3Ynr-QajBOi1yA1srT4Nrc
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-mQbeeGs2oFo4EQPswxbWdgwR
  • Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: 839b791a7c251c8d

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