r/chessbeginners

For the budding patzer

Founded December 2014 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 26

A place for new chess players to hang out, ask questions, discover tactics, get advice from others and learn more about the game: This is the r/chessbeginners subreddit.

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Tracking since Sep 26 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

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r/chessbeginners — frequently asked

How many members does r/chessbeginners have?

r/chessbeginners has 420,395 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 26. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/chessbeginners growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/chessbeginners yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 26; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/chessbeginners?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/chessbeginners yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

When was r/chessbeginners created?

r/chessbeginners was founded in December 2014 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Can I promote my product in r/chessbeginners?

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