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No Priors · Thursday, August 13, 2026

Chess.com Reaches 250 Million Members and Over $200 Million in Annual Revenue

Erik Allebest, CEO of Chess.com, shared impressive growth figures for the platform, stating they have over 250 million registered members and are projected to exceed $200 million in revenue this year. The platform currently sees about 10 million daily active users and 40-50 million monthly active users.

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Yeah, sure. We are, um, we are much larger than I ever thought we would be. So it's kind of wild to say these numbers for me. Um, we're about 10 million daily active users, about 40 or 50 million monthly active users.
We have more than 250 million registered members and more revenue than I thought we would end up with as a chess company. Um, a little about, I think this year we'll do a little over 200 million. Um, which is frankly, um, surprising.
Heard on No Priors — “Building a $200M Bootstrapped Chess Empire with Chess.com CEO Erik Allebest, published Thursday, August 13, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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