Management
Our management team loves chess and is dedicated to creating the best possible place to enjoy chess on the internet.
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IM David Pruess
Professional Relations and Content |
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IM Danny Rensch
Professional Relations and Content |
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Michael
Projects & Social Media |
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Brenan
Operations & Growth |
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David
ChessKid Manager & Video Editor |
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Developers & Engineers
Our incredible engineers build all of the amazing stuff you see on the site. All of them are top of their field and have created the most technically advanced chess site out there!
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Piotr
Live Chess Architect |
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Igor
Systems Administrator |
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Matias (shadowc)
JavaScript & Live Developer |
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Jon
Senior Developer
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Nik
Java Developer |
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Vladimir
Java Developer |
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Faisal
iPhone Developer |
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Marcos
PHP Developer |
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Denis
PHP Developer |
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Alex
Android Developer |
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Favio
PHP Developer |
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Support Team
Our support team works all day and night to help you make the most of your Chess.com experience! To contact them, please visit http://support.chess.com - thanks!
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Matt (patzer24)
Billing & Member Services |
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Jules (kohai)
Site Experience Manager |
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Naomi (Blackenne)
Member Support |
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Paul Z
Member Support |
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Amelia
Member Support |
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Derek
Member Support |
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Content Contributors
So many people have contributed to the incredible teaching materials available on this site, but we'd especially like to recognize the significant contributions of:
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GM Julio Becerra
Columnist |
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GM Vinay Bhat
Columnist |
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WIM Iryna Zenyuk
Columnist |
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GM Greg Serper
Columnist |
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GM Magesh Panchanathan
Columnist |
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GM Arun Prasad
Columnist |
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IM Jeremy Silman
Columnist |
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FM Charles Galofre
Video Lessons and Production |
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GM Sam Shankland
video lessons, chess mentor, articles, chesstv |
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GM Melikset Khachiyan
Video Lessons |
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GM Josh Friedel
Video Lessons, Chess.comTV Commentator |
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FM Elliott Liu
Video Lessons, Chess.comTV Commentator |
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FM Valeri Lilov
Video Lessons |
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IM Eric Tangborn
Chess Mentor Author |
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GM Eugene Perelshteyn
Video Lessons |
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GM Roman Dzindzichashvili
Video Lessons |
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WGM Natalia Pogonina
Columnist |
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GM GN Gopal
Author |
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GM Gregory Kaidanov
Video Lessons |
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IM Mark Ginsburg
Video Lessons, Chess.comTV Commentator |
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GM Dejan Bojkov
Author, Video Lessons, Chess Mentor Author |
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IM John Grefe
Chess Mentor Author |
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IM Thomas Rendle
Video Lessons |
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GM Alex Lenderman
Video Lessons |
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FM Todd Andrews
Video Lessons |
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FM Joel Banawa
Chess Mentor Author |
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IM Bryan Smith
Author, Chess Mentor Author |
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GM Jon Ludvig Hammer
Ambassador & Chess.comTV Commentator |
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IM Mackenzie Molner
Video Lessons |
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WGM Camilla Baginskaite
Video Lessons |
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IM Jacek Stopa
Video Lessons |
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FM Kostya Kavutskiy
Video Editor & Chess.com TV Commentator |
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Special Contributors
Here are some of our key contractors and awesome part-time contributors!
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Ben
Programming Swiss Army Knife |
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Ryan
News Editor |
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Mina
Java Applet Developer |
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Greg
Hosting Provider & Networking Consultant |
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Dallin
Web and Interaction Designer |
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Roland
Anti-cheater Statistician |
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Owners
Chess.com is owned and managed by two long-time friends and chess players. They met as college freshman where Jay - the university chess club president - taught Erik to play chess!
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Erik
Co-founder and CEO
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Jay
Co-founder and CTO |