Chess.com

Chess.com is the largest online platform for chess in the world. It was launched in May 2007 and has 93M+ registered users.
==History==
The domain "Chess.com" was originally registered in 1995 by a company called Aficionado in order to sell chess tutoring software. 
In 2005, the domain was brought by internet entrepreneurs Erik Allebest and Jay Severson. The duo then hired a team of developers to recreate the site as a chess portal. The duo wanted to capitalize on the rise of online chess by creating a centralized platform for e-chess enthusiasts. In 2007, the site was relaunched as the modern Chess.com most are familiar with today. 
In 2014, the site announced that a billion games of chess had been played on Chess.com. In 2017, the 2,147,483,647th game was played and famously caused the app to crash on 32-bit devices via an integer overflow error because 32-bits isn't enough memory to hold such a large number. 
In 2022, Chess.com finalized an offer of acquisition for the Play Magnus Group, a chess company founded by Magnus Carlsen, a five-time chess world champion. 
==YouTube Channel==
Chess.com's YouTube channel was created in July 2007. The channel's first two videos were advertisements for the website.
The earliest videos were chess tutorials that cover both the basics and advanced openings and strategies. The first tournament video was on the 2009 National Open. Chess.com would primarily post chess tutorials with chess news, history, and tournament videos sprinkled in between until 2013 when the channel shifted focus to tournaments and news, which is still the channel's focus today. 
==Tournaments==
*PRO Chess League: the Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League is an e-chess league that specializes in rapid chess tournaments. Rapid chess is defined by a chess game where the players are given more than 10 minutes but less than an hour to play a turn. Chess.com is the official host of PRO leagues since 2017.
*Titled Tuesdays: a 11-round Swiss-system blitz chess (turns are less than 10 minutes) tournament hosted by Chess.com every Tuesday.
*PogChamps: An amateur chess tournament that pins Twitch streamers against each other. The first tournament was hosted in 2020 and has since became a yearly event.
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