World Chess Employee Directory
Spectator SportsEngland, United Kingdom11-50 Employees
World Chess, founded in 2012 and based in London, England, operates to position chess as a mainstream spectator sport and acts as the official commercial partner of FIDE. It runs three interconnected activities—platform, broadcast, and live events. Its platform, worldchess.com, hosts more than a million registered users and is FIDE's official online home for competitive chess. Its broadcast arm, the World Chess Show, distributes content to more than 50 markets in a magazine-style format aimed at casual fans. The live events division has produced World Championship matches in New York and London and introduced the Armageddon tiebreak format, now standard in elite competition. In 2026, World Chess announced a collaboration with FIDE to launch the First Rating Experiment, a program to award players their first official online FIDE blitz and rapid ratings.