The emergence of chess as an esport has also meant new avenues for players who might have otherwise moved on from the game.
Chessbrah is the first company built around chess streaming. Grandmaster Eric Hansen, 27, first used the term Chessbrah in 2015 as an online alias, then later streamed under the name. He’s credited with being one of the first people to make chess streaming into its own niche esport. Chessbrah now has almost 100,000 followers on Twitch.“I grew up watching wrestling and reality shows,” Hansen said. “And that actually was a big influence.
And many streamers are not grandmasters like Hansen. Some are novices who are learning along with their audiences, Dellario said. He pointed to, who has streamed for more than a year and started boosted her rating by more than 600 points. Chess players, particularly young ones who play the game at a high level, can end up burned out. Botez remembered asking her teachers to lie to her middle school classmates when she went to play in the North American championships, because she was worried about fitting in. There were the hours of intense studying before big matches, and the deflation after a disappointing performance.
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