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Chess.com has launched a seek for its new CEO. Present CEO, Erik, co-founded Chess.com in 2006 along with his buddy and co-founder Jay, and for 17 years has grown the corporate from an concept to the number-one chess platform with greater than 125 million members.

Erik introduced that he might be stepping down later this yr when a substitute has been discovered. Per the announcement video, Erik gave the next cause:

“For greater than 20 years, I’ve been working in chess which has taken all of my time and focus. I’ve by no means had the psychological house to really pursue my dream of changing into a chess grasp. I am about 1800 on-line, and my USCF score is 1665. I wish to concentrate on learning the sport quite than constructing the group and I hope to attain a score of 2200 and the title of grasp.”

When Erik was requested if he was influenced by GM Magnus Carlsen’s dedication of his world chess championship title, he responded: “Truly, yeah. I’ve had an opportunity to actually put myself in Magnus’ sneakers up to now—to actually really feel like I used to be him in sure moments, and I resonated along with his mentality. I’ve already achieved every little thing I wish to as CEO, and now it is time for me to concentrate on different chess-related pursuits.”

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Chess.com has posted an open software for the CEO place. It’s open to anybody who is likely to be involved in main the world’s largest chess group. Candidates should be rated no less than 1600 in on-line chess, have 10+ years of administration expertise in tech or gaming, and never have an MBA from Harvard.

In case you are , please apply right here.