World Chess Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

LSE:CHSS Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Role	Shares	Max Price
07 Nov 25	SellUK£193,196	Ilya Merenzon	Individual		14,000,000	UK£0.014
01 Oct 25	SellUK£26,250	Ilya Merenzon	Individual		1,500,000	UK£0.018

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: Insufficient data to determine if insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of CHSS?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Private Companies	50,826,725	4.66%
VC/PE Firms	83,910,000	7.7%
General Public	133,410,647	12.2%
Institutions	143,733,730	13.2%
Individual Insiders	677,925,477	62.2%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have been substantially diluted in the past year, with total shares outstanding growing by 42.4%.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 87.76% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
34.1%	Ilya Merenzon	371,662,818	UK£1.3m	0%	no data
13.3%	Valery Kurylau	145,131,934	UK£508.0k	154%	no data
7.7%	Prytek Holdings Pte Ltd.	83,910,000	UK£293.7k	0%	100.0%
5.25%	Dmitri Lipnitsky	57,224,335	UK£200.3k	0.09%	no data
5.17%	Hargreaves Lansdown Asset Management Ltd.	56,379,987	UK£197.3k	-25%	no data
3.64%	Yuri Milner	39,702,982	UK£139.0k	0%	no data
3.36%	Uk Intis Telecom Ltd	36,619,573	UK£128.2k	243%	no data
3.06%	Matvey Shekhovtsov	33,350,000	UK£116.7k	0%	no data
2.32%	Andrey Insarov	25,288,089	UK£88.5k	0%	no data
2.27%	AIC Capital LLC	24,740,000	UK£86.6k	0%	100.0%
1.8%	CGS International Securities Pte. Ltd.	19,622,175	UK£68.7k	248%	0.02%
1.34%	Puma Investment Management Limited	14,646,944	UK£51.3k	-7.54%	0.05%
1.04%	Kaspersky Lab ZAO	11,340,000	UK£39.7k	0%	no data
1.03%	Peel Hunt LLP	11,256,434	UK£39.4k	34.1%	0.01%
0.77%	Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.	8,344,979	UK£29.2k	16.7%	no data
0.51%	Jamison Firestone	5,560,000	UK£19.5k	0%	no data
0.26%	Engiscent Pte Ltd	2,867,152	UK£10.0k	0%	no data
0.22%	Cantor Fitzgerald Asset Management	2,385,120	UK£8.3k	-17.3%	no data
0.2%	HBOS Investment Fund Managers Limited	2,223,401	UK£7.8k	24.9%	no data
0.14%	Integrated Financial Arrangements plc	1,541,390	UK£5.4k	0%	no data
0.11%	Barclays Bank Plc	1,154,932	UK£4.0k	33.2%	no data
0.053%	Aberdeen Group Plc	582,354	UK£2.0k	-32.4%	no data
0.032%	CMC Markets Stockbroking Ltd.	351,752	UK£1.2k	74.3%	no data
0.027%	TrinityBridge Limited	299,200	UK£1.0k	-85.2%	no data
0.019%	IG Group Holdings plc	205,062	UK£717.9	-66.1%	no data

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2026/08/05 12:05
End of Day Share Price	2026/08/05 00:00
Earnings	2025/12/31
Annual Earnings	2025/12/31

Data Sources

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Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

World Chess PLC is covered by 1 analysts. 0 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Brendan D’Souza	Allenby Capital Limited