Chess.com Podcasts?
Chess.com is a great website. They have puzzles and games and archives and my personal favorite, blogs. You can log on to play chess for fun, or use their tools to improve your skills. You can play against your friends or watch your favorite grandmasters play. Chess.com is great, but there’s one thing it’s missing; entertainment.
People should be able to hop on chess.com, play a game, and then after they lose, get angry, and don’t want to play anymore, they should have something to entertain themselves. You could of course just come read my blog, but I think I have another idea. Something usually associated with bland comedians, people weirdly obsessed with serial killers, and friend groups who think people care what they have to say. That’s right. You guessed it. Podcasts.
That’s right, I’m suggesting that Chess.com starts producing their own original podcasts. Picture this; you sit down on Chess.com to play a game in hopes of bringing up your elo, and instead of listening to some boring music, you pop in your headphones and listen to Chess.com original podcast. Doesn’t that just sound incredible. You could listen to your favorite grandmasters while trying and failing to be as good as them.
Now, like many people with way to much free time on their hands, I have a lot of great podcast ideas. Imagine a podcast hosted by someone like Danny Rensch, and each episode he brings on a different grandmaster and talks about different chess related topics. It wouldn’t be the host interviewing them, but more just like two people having a conversation about chess. It would be a really chill show with grandmasters offering their opinions on different subjects.
Another podcast could be called ‘This Week in Chess’. This show would discuss events occurring in the chess world in the past week. It would go over stuff like tournaments, new titles awarded, and occurrences within FIDE. This would make it easy to keep up with the events of the often confusing chess world. No more having to review games and scroll through articles to find out the results of a chess tournament you missed.
Not only would these podcasts entertain the masses, but they could also create a new revenue source for Chess.com. After they inevitably become insanely popular, Chess.com could sell ad reads before, during, or after the podcast. People could advertise chess lessons or custom chess sets. This would not only provide revenue for Chess.com, but it would also provide a way for people to gain exposure in the chess community.
Chess.com should start producing these podcasts to fully round out their slate of offerings. They could entertain their members while bringing in the cash. As long as I receive a cut of the profits for coming up with the idea, then I will be an avid listener
- daishukyo
