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PogChamps is a series of online amateur chess tournaments hosted by Chess.com.Players in the tournament are internet personalities, primarily Twitch streamers.The first four PogChamps tournaments took place over the course of two weeks, while the fifth iteration lasted four weeks. [1]
Chess.com is an internet chess server and social networking website. [3] ... Chess.com has hosted PogChamps, an amateur online tournament featuring Twitch streamers, ...
In the second iteration of the online amateur chess tournament Pogchamps, Botez was part of the commentator team. [28] In 2021, Botez took part again in the Pogchamps 3 tournament, doubling as a coach for CodeMiko [29] and as a commentator, [30] [31] and, once again, she joined the commentator team for Pogchamps 4. [32]
From Aug. 21 to Sept. 6, Twitch and Chess.com are hosting a tournament, called Pogchamps, where some of the most popular gaming streamers in the world compete in a chess tournament with US$50,000 ...
With more than four million followers across Twitch and YouTube, Hikaru Nakamura is, for many, the face of online chess.
In 2023, Steinkamp developed an interest for online chess. He played 2,435 games in 76 days, an average of 32 games per day. [34] Later that year he was invited to compete in the amateur chess tournament PogChamps. [35] In February 2024, he won "Best Chess Streamer" at The Streamer Awards. [36]
Botez began playing chess in Canada at age six and won her first girls' national championship at age eight. She later moved back to the United States where she was born and won U.S. Girls Nationals at age 15. Botez began streaming chess content online in 2016 while she was a student at Stanford University. Her sister Andrea appeared on occasion ...
The idea for a chess tournament contested by NFL players arose through Rensch’s friendship with Larry Fitzgerald, the legendary former Arizona Cardinals wide receiver and an avid chess player.