
It's TIME For Chess.com
The chess website Chess.com has been named in TIME Magazine's prestigious list of 100 Most Influential Companies of 2023. “For the last 17 years we have been focused on our mission of serving and growing the chess community. It’s a huge and humbling honor to have this recognized. Chess has the power to impact and improve lives, and I’m incredibly happy to see that recognized by TIME.”- Erik Allebest, Co-founder and CEO of Chess.com With much of social life on hold during the pandemic and the overwhelming success of the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit, the amount of people who started playing chess online skyrocketed. As the world's leading online chess platform, Chess.com has seen such an explosive growth that it is named in the (formerly print; now digital only) magazine TIME's prestigious 100 Most Influential Companies of 2023 list.In the same category of "Disrupters" (new dominant players in existing fields) we find companies such as Canva (graphic design tools with artificial175