About PLAYAGM

Hello and a warm welcome to all chess lovers/enthusiasts who land on PLAYAGM!
My name is Roland Burgstaller. I started this platform as a side project and I hope that it finds its place in the great world of chess!

Our mission

Becoming a GM is hard, very hard. Many GMs devote a big portion of their lives to becoming a GM. As of today there are 1,900 GM-titled chess players in the world. But many have to work in other professions to pay their bills. On the other hand, there are millions of chess players who find it very exciting to challenge the best players in the world. PLAYAGM ultimately is here to close this gap. The online simul format makes it fun and helps keep the entry fee rather low, too, while the GM can concentrate on what they love most: playing chess!

How it works

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Get in touch

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Open-source licenses

PLAYAGM's chess board is built on open-source software from the Lichess project:

• Chessground — the interactive board (GPL-3.0)
• chessops — chess rules in the browser (GPL-3.0)

Because of this, the code of PLAYAGM's web pages is published under the GNU General Public License v3.0. You can find the full source code here.