How many chess games are played online each day?
Gaming hard Data from 2024
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The answer
11,000,000 games
Roughly 11M.
Over 11 million chess games are played online every day. Interest exploded after The Queen’s Gambit and the streaming boom of 2020 — a 1,500-year-old game became a growth category on the internet.
Where this number comes from
| Source | Chess.com and Lichess published statistics |
|---|---|
| Figure refers to | 2024 |
| Last checked | |
| Unit | games |
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