Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Chess.com
The 20 closest online chess alternatives to Chess.com, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 11 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Chess.com? The closest matches are Lichess, Half-Life TV and CrazyGames. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Chess.com
Chess.com chess.com
Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games
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
Summary by Claude
An internet chess server where users play live and correspondence chess against other people or computer bots, with puzzles, lessons, game analysis, chess news and live event coverage.
- Who it’s for
- Chess players of all levels
- Business model
- Freemium subscriptions and advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Chess.com’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Chess.com
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Chess.com, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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lichess.org • Free Online Chess
Free online chess server. Play chess in a clean interface. No registration, no ads, no plugin required. Play chess with the computer, friends or random opponents.
Very close cos 0.966 - 02
software for the broadcasting of gaming matches on the Half-Life engine
Very close cos 0.909 - 03
Free Online Games on CrazyGames | Play Now!
Play free online games at CrazyGames, the best place to play high-quality browser games. We add new games every day. Have fun!
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Wargaming.net games — the full list of games available for players on the official website
A catalogue of games produced by an award-winning online game developer and publisher. Legendary and new games from Wargaming for PC, iOS, Android, Xbox and Playstation.
Very close cos 0.902 - 05
Funinexch | Premium Playhub for Contest Fans
Funinexch delivers a digital playhub with contest leagues, match insights, smart outcomes, and rewards. Explore Funinexch immersive experience today now.
Very close cos 0.901 - 06
PlayGround.ru - Компьютерные игры, патчи, моды, прохождение игр, коды, читы, трейнеры, скачать игры
PlayGround.ru - Компьютерные игры, патчи, моды, прохождение игр, коды, читы, трейнеры, скачать игры
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Liquipedia
esports encyclopedia
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online gaming platform
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Australian-Curaçaoan online casino
Very close cos 0.896 - 10
Чемпионат
sports website
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LiveInternet @ Статистика и дневники, почта и поиск
LiveInternet - крупный сервис дневников и сообществ, авторитетный сервис статистики для сайтов
Very close cos 0.894 - 12 fotostrana.ru Top 10K
Фотострана — знакомства, чат, игры | 22M+ пользователей
Фотострана — №1 соцсеть знакомств! 22M+ пользователей, 25M+ фото, бесплатный чат, игры, конкурсы. Любовь и флирт рядом!
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W3Schools Online Web Tutorials
Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.
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League of Legends Homepage
League of Legends is a team-based game with over 140 champions to make epic plays with. Play now for free.
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GameRant - Breaking News, Reviews & Everything Else in the World of Video Games
GameRant delivers content written by gamers for gamers with an emphasis on news, reviews, unique features, and interviews.
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Captcha Challenge…
online studying platform
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Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
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stubhub.com
American ticket brokering company
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GeeksforGeeks | Your All-in-One Learning Portal
Your All-in-One Learning Portal. It contains well written, well thought and well explained computer science and programming articles, quizzes and practice/competitive programming/company interview Questions.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to chess.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Chess.com uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Chess.com is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Payments
- Adyen page source: checkoutshopper-live.adyen.com
- Security
- Cloudflare Turnstile page source: challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fd518dd0e5d1-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP cookie PHPSESSID
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS dan.ns.cloudflare.com
- 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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Chess.com adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on chess.com 10/20
- nginx · not on chess.com 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on chess.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Cloudflare 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on chess.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on chess.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on chess.com 5/20
- Yandex Webmaster 5/20
- DocuSign · not on chess.com 4/20
- Atlassian 4/20
- OpenAI 4/20
- Apple Business · not on chess.com 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on chess.com 4/20