I can proudly say I have never watched a single second of pogchamps.
Pogchamps over Serious chess games?
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I can’t believe what snobs you guys are. People should be allowed to have fun with chess, that doesn’t detract from the seriousness of the world class players and general gravitas of the game. It’s kind of refreshing for beginners to see people at our level compete, too. Makes us feel included and not afraid to get in there. I don’t want to be a pogchamp type player, I intent to join a club as soon as Covid restrictions are lifted. But I’ve watched a bit of pog and it hasn’t ruined me. I prefer slow chess over a board. I’m better at it, too. (Thank christ)
I start thinking it is scripted to be more entertaining but it is still dumb.
NotesFromUnderdog wrote:
I can’t believe what snobs you guys are. People should be allowed to have fun with chess, that doesn’t detract from the seriousness of the world class players and general gravitas of the game. It’s kind of refreshing for beginners to see people at our level compete, too. Makes us feel included and not afraid to get in there. I don’t want to be a pogchamp type player, I intent to join a club as soon as Covid restrictions are lifted. But I’ve watched a bit of pog and it hasn’t ruined me. I prefer slow chess over a board. I’m better at it, too. (Thank christ)
Well said and in 100% agreement. Nobody owns chess or has rights to say it should be played this way or that. We're living in a world now with digital entertainment and pogchamps fits right in there. You're either into it or you aren't. Nothing more to be said about it.
Pogchamps and amateur chess in general brings more people to chess, boosts the audience of professional chess streamers, brings more money and attention into chess as a culture, reinvigorates chess publishers and so on.
Many of the world's best football players started in amateur clubs and it may be similar with chess. While you might not enjoy watching amateur football as much as the top professionals, they do have a clear role in the pipeline to the top.
Feb 27, 2021
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NotesFromUnderdog wrote:
I can’t believe what snobs you guys are. People should be allowed to have fun with chess, that doesn’t detract from the seriousness of the world class players and general gravitas of the game. It’s kind of refreshing for beginners to see people at our level compete, too. Makes us feel included and not afraid to get in there. I don’t want to be a pogchamp type player, I intent to join a club as soon as Covid restrictions are lifted. But I’ve watched a bit of pog and it hasn’t ruined me. I prefer slow chess over a board. I’m better at it, too. (Thank christ)
Well said!
Mar 1, 2021
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Yes, that's great. And all participants earned a percentage of the pot - not just the winners and runner-ups, which means every charity will get something out of the tournament.
RorschachTest1 wrote:
i would also find pogchamps very interesting if most of the players were playing chess at around my level... for higher rated players it can be quite boring to watch and is not very intellectually stimulating, especially when their are quite a bunch of mismatches were one player gets destroyed. if it was mostly a bunch of club level players competing than i might find that even more entertaining than top level chess were i would have a much harder time relating.
I'd agree. The main or only reason I find the chess interesting is that they play somewhere around my level. Other than that I'd have been curious about DNegs as I come from a poker background and might have watched a bit more of it because of the "what are the kids up to these days" factor w/r/t streamer culture.
Still, I'm old enough to remember the poker boom and this is akin to the WSOP in those days. Mostly bad poker presented in a simplistic manner but the telecast focused on and created personalities and that drew people in.
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