A community-run index
The Ladder
v1.1
What is Chess.com Ladder?
Chess.com Ladder is a community-ran, frequently updated list of early, titled, and staff user profiles similar to Steamladder.com. Every entry is compounded by hand: each profile checked, dated, and filed in order.
| Entries | — profiles and counting |
| Earliest join | 17 Aug 2006 · pfm |
| Still active | — profiles online after 31 Dec 2024 |
| Source | Public Chess.com profiles, checked by hand |
Commemorating
Chess.com Ladder launched publicly on 11 Nov 2026. Before the site, the Ladder lived in private notes during its beta, and the members below are the Veteran tier: the original patrons who backed the project in that era. This card honours them.
How to read it
Every profile on the ladder is listed by its legacy Chess.com user ID and join date, and carries a string of flares, assigned by hand from its profile page. The flares follow a fixed order: properties issued by Chess.com first (verified, titled, coach, moderator, staff, premium), then legitimacy markers such as employee and known profiles, then activity: whether the username has changed, whether the account has played 10,000 or more games, and whether it is still active.
Banned accounts carry no flare of their own. They are simply struck through.
Note: Chess.com Ladder is best viewed on desktop. On a phone, the wider tables scroll sideways.
The pages
LADDER: the collected data, searchable and sortable, with the full legend.
TIERS: membership of sacrilege, the group behind the ladder, in two tiers: Visionary, and behind it Veteran, the first tier ever introduced.