Thanks Shadow, good idea. Here's a gradient that I hope would be easy to read text on. We have a few other people's backgrounds to come as well before we decide. I've shown black and white text in second image, to demonstrate how text would look on it, as that was the main problem I had with the Chess Hub image background, originally. The gradient can be darkened or lightened, if you want, and I colour matched your logo colours with a colour dropper, in Canva.
With text to demonstrate readability: 




some people want a background and some want one thats easy to see through, so you can post your backgrounds here and vote on it