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Why is chess getting so popular all of the sudden in 2023?
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Apr 2, 2023
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#64
My school blocked chess because so many people were playing it during class.
I think Chess started being popular in 2020 b/c of COVID19 and everyone had to stay home.
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Apr 3, 2023
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LeoLOL87 wrote:
I think Chess started being popular in 2020 b/c of COVID19 and everyone had to stay home.
There was a bump from that and another one during the Queen's Gambit run. More recently, there was another very large increase in interest.
Apr 3, 2023
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#68
Martin_Stahl skrev:
LeoLOL87 wrote:
I think Chess started being popular in 2020 b/c of COVID19 and everyone had to stay home.
There was a bump from that and another one during the Queen's Gambit run. More recently, there was another very large increase in interest.
Can remember for sure but didn't poker had a couple of small bumps and got into mainstream awareness before the boom in 00'? It was in a couple well know movies, Rounders being most famous, together with platforms for online poker and television poker where viewers could see the cards and easily follow the game. Then an amateur (Moneymaker) won a lot of money and the rest is history.
Technically, we had some local bumps in India and China where chess became more famous in 2010's. We had a lot of mature online platforms for playing, some even with bells and whistles (or more correctly seasonal bots and achievements) and then pandemic happened. Awareness rose in public due to streamers and Netflix, platforms for playing were already there. Couple of drama, some different mentions by different social media profiles, availability in class room unlike other games and boom, every school child is now playing... until school blocks it.
Apr 6, 2023
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#71
It's become trendy. Your friends are playing it, so you decide to join in, give it a try and start playing them- it may have started with the queen's gambit and the cheating scandal, but it's had a butterfly effect. In schools, trends catch on fast and spread like a virus.
Only a fraction of those who join up are serious about improvement, and that's okay. For everyone else, there is a lot of very watchable, high quality, entertaining chess content being recommended on TikTok and YouTube, and the popularity of that content has caused the algorithms to promote it more widely, so it continues to snowball.
Personally I have no idea why I started playing in October. I had seen the queens gambit probably a year earlier, and I somehow didn't even catch the news about the cheating scandal until after I'd started playing on here daily. I might be an outlier, but I decided to just give it a try to see if I could get good enough to beat my dad, and to feel I'm learning something in my free time rather than wasting it scrolling- and then it was addicting. Needless to say, I can beat my dad, but I have new goals- 1500, then 1800, hopefully by the end of the year. I watch high level games and whilst I'm getting better at following what's happening and predicting the best move, I want to be able to play like that myself- there's really nothing else motivating me. I don't have friends who play and don't plan on entering tournaments.
Before the chess boom, every chess content creator prioritized education over entertainment. Then GothamChess came along. He’s as educational as a rotting goldfish yet as entertaining as a comedy star. He’s one of the top chess youtubers for a reason
I get that repetitive recommendations about chess were around but it would make more
Sense in 2020
I dont like movies about chess. They are so brutally unrealistic.
Hikaru and GothamChess create content daily. It should come at noones surprise that the quality cant be always top notch if you produce this much quantity.
IanShawDulin wrote:
Chess has been around for 1,400 years, and has gone through many phases. Right now it’s going through the “trending” phase, I guess.
Chess has been on the rise since its inception. Unlike anything else, it came from military planning.
The biggest boom was the printing press. The Game and Play of Chess was the second printed book in English; I have a copy.
Another boom was computers.
Another boom was the Internet, back in the telephone dial-up days.
Let's look at the competitor of chess, not counting Go.
Dice.
1. For gambling.
2. Simple games. Candy Land, Parcheesi, Monopoly, etc
Kids stuff.
Cards.
1. For gambling.
2. For gambling.
Cards did give rise to the branch of mathematics called probabilities and statistics.
Cards is still a very good metaphor for life. First James Bond novel, Casino Royale, baccarat.
"You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em . . ."
But it has nowhere near the prestige of chess.
Divination.
Dice.
Tarrot cards.
Fortune sticks. Shake one stick out of the can randomly and read your fortune.
Magic 8-Ball.
In our infancy of the past, we were at the mercy of chance, and "divine" whims.
Then we learned to make our own luck.
Again, chess came from military planning. Nothing else came close in terms of utility.
Not at all.
I see Botez on YouTube hamming it up. It is very old school. I'm surprised that old school, in the park, WWE style presentation is popular.
Chess has been on the rise since the invention of the computer. It goes hand in hand. It is the Sargon II on the Commodore 64 that re-introduced me to chess.
Computers will rise and chess will rise. They're made for each other.