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How the Covid-19 pandemic, a TV show, and a cat bot boosted the popularity of online chess

by Peter DoggersDecember 6, 2024December 6, 2024

When discussing chess’s big surge in popularity in 2020, we usually point to the pandemic and The Queen’s Gambit, while perhaps PogChamps deserves a place in the same sentence. What do the numbers say? Let’s look at two periods: before The Queen’s Gambit and after. On 22 October 2020, a day before The Queen’s Gambit […]

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