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Most Popular Chess Websites in the World

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Written by Administrator   
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Article Index
Most Popular Chess Websites in the World
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Ever wondered what the most popular chess websites in the world are?
Pogonina.com
brings you the top-20 list:

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Website & Main Speciality

Alexa Ranking* (Feb. 26)

Alexa Ranking (last month)

1

Chess.com - chess portal

2 767

 

 

2

GameKnot.com - correspondence chess

10 425

 

 

3

ChessBase.com - chess news

15 783

 

 

4

FICGS.com - correspondence chess

27 095

 

 

5

ChessGames.com - chess database

27 134

 

 

6

ChessCube.com - online chess

27 644

 

 

7

RedHotPawn.com - correspondence chess

30 116

 

 

8

FIDE.com - official website of the World Chess Federation

33 635

 

 

9

Chess-Results.com - international tournament results

33 948

 

 

10

ChessPro.ru - chess articles and live commentary in Russian

34 256

 

 

11

CrestBook.com - chess articles and live commentary in Russian

64 459

 

 

12

ChessDom.com - chess news and live commentary

65 328

 

 

13

ChessOK.com - chess shop

78 227

 

 

14

ChessHere.com - online chess

79 082

 

 

15

ChessTempo.com - chess training

88 490

 

 

16

ShredderChess.com - chess shop

92 011

 

 

17

ChessVibes.com - chess news

93 192

 

 

18

ChessWorld.net - correspondence chess

105 456

 

 

19

Chess-Online.ru - correspondence chess

108 164

 

 

20

InstantChess.com - online chess

117 956

 

 


*Ranking among all websites in the world

Please take into account the following:

1) Sub-pages of popular portals (like Yahoo Chess, Pogo.com Chess, etc.) are not listed.
2) Popularity is not always correlated with quality. Some great, but not popular enough chess websites are not listed.
3) Rankings may be incomplete due to an enormous number of chess websites that exist in the world & language barriers. Should you discover an unlisted chess website that fits in the top-20 category, please let us know.

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Comments (11)
1. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 09:29 26 2011 .
 
 
Ave
Can't concentrate on chess, when I see your photos.
 
2. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 11:49 26 2011 .
 
 
Jarive's Blog
An other: 
 
www.chessmaniac.com 
 
Regards!
 
3. Written by Peter on 20:58 26 2011 .
 
 
Jarive's Blog
@Jarive Not top-20 level.
 
4. Written by Gerd on 16:55 27 2011 .
 
 
Jarive's Blog
What about Chess Cafe or TWIC?
 
5. Written by Peter on 17:37 27 2011 .
 
 
Jarive's Blog
@Gerd TWIC has a good shot at the rankings, but is currently out of top-20. 
ChessCafe's chances of making it to the list are dim.
 
6. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 17:56 02 2011 .
 
 
List Comment.
:) nullnullThanks for the list, Natalia! Quite impressive - and useful, too!  
 
ChessPaladin2009 8)
 
7. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 01:04 11 2011 .
 
 
List Comment.
Hello, I found a great chess playing website. It is called Mychess.com Please check it out. Thanks.
 
8. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 20:46 02 2012 .
 
 
Other top sites
I used Alexa to do this list in January 2012/September 2011, published on chesstalk.com.  
 
Other top sites I found were: 
12/24 latestchess.com (China?) 113,197/65,873 
13/14 chessbase.de (German) 76,489/66,112 
15/17 chess.no (Norway) 81,212/75,025 
18/28 schachbund.de 103,498/86,251 
21/20 immortalchess.net (forum) 103,498/94,894 
22/16 russiachess.org (Russian) 78,230 /96,418 
23/21 chess.co.uk (This Week in Chess) 106,486/96,499 
24/25 whychess.org (news blogs) 118,935/102,071 
26/33 chess-news.ru 143,655/ 118,124 
27/31 freechess.org (FICS) 142,653/121,044 
28/34 uschess.org 150,653/122,754 
29/36 susanpolgar.blogspot.com 158,439/130,964 
30/35 europe-echecs.com 151,728/132,436
 
9. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 15:21 27 2012 .
 
 
fRtzmLIbcxw
Cool! 30+ years ago, I played a few games of post-card cernospordence chess and had some fun. I was never a particularly good tournament player, but I still enjoy an occasional game. A few years ago I drew a friendly game with a master. Well he had a master rating, once, but in any case he is by far the strongest opponent I ever drew against. He was distracted and I got lucky ;-) Anyhow, looks like the time limits can be pretty liberal on that site, so I might be willing to try it out.
 
10. Written by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it on 17:52 27 2012 .
 
 
FWGPIYvRgT
People normllay pay me for this and you are giving it away!
 


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