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There was a post a few days ago on the GM Natalia Pogonina website listing the top 20 Chess Websites. They invite readers to contribute as they realize they may be missing some.
Here is what they say:
Please take into account the following:
1) Sub-pages of popular portals (like Yahoo Chess, Pogo.com Chess, etc.) are not listed.
2) Popularity is not always correlated with quality. Some great, but not popular enough chess websites are not listed.
3) Rankings may be incomplete due to an enormous number of chess websites that exist in the world & language barriers. Should you discover an unlisted chess website that fits in the top-20 category, please let us know.
Last week I spent some time on a web ranking website and looked at which chess websites were the most popular over the past 3 months.
The top sites (not including game sites like Yahoo and subsites of hosts) in the World were:
1 chess.com
2 gameknot.com
3 chessbase.com
4 fide.com
5 chessgames.com
6 chesscube.com
7 chess-results.com
8 chesspro.ru
9 redhotpawn.com
10 chessdom.com
The top Canadian sites were (in World ranking order):
1 monroi.com
2 chesstalk.info
3 chess.ca
4 fqechecs.qc.ca
5 windsorchess.ca
6 canadianchess.info
7 annexchessclub.com
8 2011cycc.ca
9 chessquotes.com
In Sept. I visited the internet ranking site Alexa.com and made a list of chess sites. I have revisited to see if the rankings have changed. The number at the end is the world ranking in September/over the past three months. Not included are game sites like yahoo or msn where chess is just one of the games.
Rising sites have been: chesstempo.com, latestchess.com, uschess.org, susanpolgar.blogspot.com, freechess.org, chessdom.com, europe-echecs.com, schachbund.de, whychess.org, redhotpawn.com, chessninja.com, and newinchess.com
Dropping down have been: pogonina.com, crestbook.com, ajedrezonline.com, chessclub.com (ICC), chess-online.ru, pakchess.org, russiachess.org, chesshere.com, ficgs.com, and kevinspraggett.blogspot.com.
The Annex CC sent out emails to promote the Shirov simult. The event was listed in Now Magazine, the Globe & Mail, a local paper, and in Day's Star chess column. Local community associations were also contacted and some forwarded the email to all of their members.
Looking at the 3-month average (Dec-Jan-Feb) the club has moved up to being almost as active as the CFC's website (but below chesstalk). From Alexa.com (lower number is higher ranked):
January today:world/Canada
ACC 3,552,661 1,390,127/22,733
CFC 1,240,788 1,028,866/22,511
The Annex CC sent out emails to promote the Shirov simult. The event was listed in Now Magazine, the Globe & Mail, a local paper, and in Day's Star chess column. Local community associations were also contacted and some forwarded the email to all of their members.
Looking at the 3-month average (Dec-Jan-Feb) the club has moved up to being almost as active as the CFC's website (but below chesstalk). From Alexa.com (lower number is higher ranked):
January today:world/Canada
ACC 3,552,661 1,390,127/22,733
CFC 1,240,788 1,028,866/22,511
I believe chesstalk.info has moved into first place
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