[2] The KasparovChess.com domain was first used to launch Garry Kasparov's chess website in early 2000.
[3] To commemorate its opening, Kasparov played a simul with around 30 junior players from around the world, many of them online on his own chess server in 2000.
Kasparov Chess is financed by private investors and Vivendi, through its subsidiary Keysquare,[7] a media conglomerate headquartered in Paris, France.
[8] In October 2019, Keysquare was allocated a capital investment of €3.5 million Euros from Vivendi to start the project.
In 1999, Garry Kasparov and Israeli investors attempted to establish a commercial online chess club called Kasparov Chess Online that never reached a profitable status and became defunct in 2002.