“This month, we’ve had our first bump in membership since the pandemic hit, and we are hearing from our members that many of them are renewing or rejoining specifically because of the series,” said Daniel Lucas, a senior official at the federation. Chess Federation, the governing body for chess competition in the United States, is also on the rise. In June, an amateur chess tournament called PogChamps was briefly the top-viewed stream on Twitch, with 63,000 people watching at once, SullyGnome said.Īnd membership in chess organizations, such as the U.S. Last month, people watched 4.2 million hours of chess, compared with 2.4 million the same month last year. Streaming platforms like Twitch have also had skyrocketing viewership of chess games.įrom March through August, people watched 41.2 million hours of chess on Twitch, four times as many hours as in the previous six months, according to the analytics website SullyGnome.
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It is intensively competitive, but full of interesting, creative and colorful characters.” “It is nerdy, but also cool and fashionable.
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“The chess community fell in love with the series because it successfully portrays different aspects of chess in all its richness: It’s easy enough to be fun to play, but also complex enough to pose a challenge,” he said.
Some matches, like the championship match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky played during the Cold War, “gave birth to a whole new generation of millions of chess fans,” Mr. Llada said it was too soon to measure the full impact of “The Queen’s Gambit” on chess, but said it was already comparable to the buzz usually generated around world championships, held every two years. Sites that required users to be registered reported an increase in new membership of around 40 percent, he said. When the pandemic hit, the numbers grew to an estimated 16 million to 17 million games per day. Chess Federation reported an increase in sales of wooden sets, which can cost several thousand dollars, since the show began.Īt the beginning of the year, as many as 11 million chess games were played online every day, Mr. Gibson said, chess sets at eBay were already selling 60 percent more than last year, which the company attributes to people spending more time at home during the pandemic. Vintage set sales have increased seven times, as have sales for equipment, including chess clocks and timers, which are up 45 times since last month.īefore “The Queen’s Gambit,” Ms. Of the different types of chess sets, wooden are the most popular and sell nine times more than plastic, electronic or glass on eBay, she said.
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