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Chess.com Launches Poker Site, Plans More Classic Game Platforms

Chess.com launches free poker site Gambit and plans more classic game platforms with AI-assisted development.

AI News Feed · 2026-08-31 06:20

Gambit, which went live quietly in May, already has 75,000 members, who have played nearly 20 million hands and completed 100,000 lessons, Chess.com said in a blog post Friday. The site is now holding a daily poker tournament, and on Monday it will broadcast the event with live commentary on the company's Twitch and YouTube channels.

Cheng told The Verge that he and one other employee took Gambit from prototype to launch within a year, partly with help from AI, mainly for coding tasks. AI helped them read Chess.com's existing codebase and design system and apply consistent patterns to a different platform quickly, he said. The live version of Gambit contains "zero or close to zero" AI-created assets, which were used only in early prototypes.

Without AI assistance, Cheng said, getting another site up and running would have required a bigger team or "would have been a lot more disruptive to the status quo of building and growing Chess." A "small, scrappy" team can now get a new platform off the ground much faster, he added, which has opened the door for Chess.com to move into more games, starting with poker.

Cheng did not say when the new classic game sites will launch, but said "development is moving quite rapidly." The company is developing Elo-style rating systems for go, backgammon, and mahjong, following the same playbook used for Gambit.