Chess players also join social networks.

Chess sites have not passed by the modern fashion on the Web 2.0 and are also beginning to implement the functionality of social networks. Niche social networks are one of the hottest trends in the modern Internet industry. The audience of chess lovers is just perfect for community building.

On the portal Cnet posted a video story on the theme of transformation in the spirit of Web 2.0 of one of the most popular chess sites Chess.com , which brings together more than 100,000 players. Project founder Eric Allebest (Erik Allebest) says that they added detailed user profiles, personal mail, blogs, comment tracking, the ability to add friends, Google Maps masters, interest clubs, ratings and other typical social networking features to the site. Chess lovers can even publish their personal photo albums here.

In RuNet, chess sites remain at the same rather poor level, although in Russia this game is as popular as anywhere else in the world. Perhaps, the site LiveChess.ru has advanced further than anyone else on the path to building a social network, but its level of technical implementation leaves much to be desired.