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Zwabu posted:Top American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura has a chess stream on Twitch that gets up to 10K or more viewers at a time which is WAY higher than a lot of popular streamers of big games. I don't know what numbers he was getting before Queen's Gambit but I seriously doubt it was that high. To be fair Hikaru is really good at streaming, he "gets" it more than any other big time chess player, and has the gift of gab and has a good personality. Jean Eric Burn posted:Chess actually had a pretty big revival earlier in the year (independently). So a whole lot of new people started playing chess online, but actual competitive chess events also shifted from slow classical in person games, to online shorter time control games. And shorter games are way more fun to watch, way less likely to be all draws. So that helped with the popularity as well, which sort of peaked with Hikaru beating Magnus in a match for the very first time. Also, chess.com hosted a competition called Pogchamps where popular non-chess streamers got lessons from the chess streamers and then competed, and it was hugely popular and helped launch some non-chess streamers like Ludwig's popularity. And then a couple months after things settle back down from being the Flavor of the Month, Queen's Gambit happens, and there is a second wave of popularity. It's been a great year for chess entertainment content on Twitch.... Which brings me to Shimrra Jamaane posted:So how is the general chess community taking this show and it’s inspiration for an explosion in interest in chess? Are they mostly all happy about it or are there insular assholes scoffing at it? But, the show made it looks pretty classy, I guess, so I haven't heard much along those lines. But anything that brings new players in will have people who default to "you are too bad at this game to deserve to even play it."
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Yeah, for casually dabbling in chess it might be rare but for anyone serious or who plays a lot en passant capture is an important consideration in every pawn move so it would be a gross blunder for a top player to miss a winning move (for them or their opponent) because of not considering it.
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Hi, thread I just wanted to drop by and say that I'm not typically a TV/Movie crier. And by that I mean that I could list every show/movie that has made me cry because there are only a handful of them. The last episode of this didn't just get a tear out of my, but like actual crying. It was the scene where she found the bulletin board. Holy poo poo, it hit me like a sledgehammer. What a fantastic miniseries this was.
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Bulky Bartokomous posted:Hi, thread I just wanted to drop by and say that I'm not typically a TV/Movie crier. And by that I mean that I could list every show/movie that has made me cry because there are only a handful of them. The last episode of this didn't just get a tear out of my, but like actual crying. It was the scene where she found the bulletin board. Holy poo poo, it hit me like a sledgehammer. What a fantastic miniseries this was. Yeah I found that scene emotionally devastating too as did many. And only made so because of the context from the first episode.
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