Chess

Hikaru Nakamura on competing and breaking bullet chess records: ‘I’m going to say that I expect to smash the record—I don’t expect it to be close’

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Time Stamp: May 19, 2021 3:13 PM - Modified On: May 19, 2021 - Published By:
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Hikaru Nakamura has remained a top-level chess player for more than two decades. He’s now a driving force in the growth of the game on platforms like Twitch and YouTube, all while continuing to compete under TSM’s banner. Over the last month, Hikaru averaged nearly 13,000 viewers on Twitch and peaked at 36,788, according to Twitchmetrics. He exclusively streams various versions of chess, mostly involving direct competition and puzzle challenges.  Along with streaming challenges or competing, he tends to focus on fast chess variants, where he’s widely considered one of

The Last Gameboard raises $4M to ship its digital tabletop gaming platform

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The tabletop gaming industry has exploded over the last few years as millions discovered or rediscovered its joys, but it too is evolving — and The Last Gameboard hopes to be the venue for that evolution. The digital tabletop platform has progressed from crowdfunding to $4M seed round, and having partnered with some of the biggest names in the industry, plans to ship by the end of the year. As the company’s CEO and co-founder Shail Mehta explained in a TC Early Stage pitch-off earlier this year, The Last Gameboard

Metafy adds $5.5M to its seed round as the market for games coaching grows

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This morning Metafy, a distributed startup building a marketplace to match gamers with instructors, announced that it has closed an additional $5.5 million to its $3.15 million seed round. Call it a seed-2, seed-extension or merely a baby Series A; Forerunner Ventures, DCM and Seven Seven Six led the round as a trio. Metafy’s model is catching on with its market. According to its CEO Josh Fabian, the company has grown from incorporation to gross merchandise volume (GMV) of $76,000 in around nine months. That’s quick. The startup is building

The Ultimate Game to Teach Your Child As Young As Three Chess, Story…

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  BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PRWEB)April 23, 2021 Story Time Chess, the first game to teach children as young as three how to play chess, recently announced that it has been nominated in the Games: Family & Kids category by the Webby Awards. The game, which was released last year, is already the recipient of multiple industry awards. This includes the coveted People’s Choice Toy of the Year (TOTY) Award, which is equivalent to the Oscars in the toy industry. The game is praised by parents, celebrities, chess masters and more in

MPL acquires GamingMonk

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Time Stamp: April 21, 2021 10:30 AM - Modified On: April 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Sequoia Capital backed Esports and skill gaming platform MPL on Tuesday announced it has acquired Delhi-based esports gaming platform GamingMonk for an undisclosed amount.  After Nazara Technologies, India’s second-leading gaming company MPL has also started its plan to gain a strong foothold in the Indian market. With the current valuation of $800 million, MPL plans to create a complete suite of esports and broadcasting capabilities that will help the company in bringing key national, regional, and global tournament IPs to India.  GamingMonk is a company that specializes in hosting esports

Opinion: How Esports Can Harness the Raw Potential of Speedrunning

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There’s a universal moment many gamers have experienced. You’re the best in your little friend group at Super Smash Bros. Beating your buddies at the game isn’t even a challenge. You’re confident in having figured out the game well enough to challenge anyone. Then you play someone who actually understands spacing, grabs, punishes when you dash attack their shield, and you get utterly obliterated. Turns out you and your friends were playing checkers in the sandbox while these other nerds were playing 4D chess in space. Watching a speedrun of

Chess GM Hikaru Apologizes For Drama With Eric Hansen and Chessbae

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by Jason Parker in Entertainment | Apr, 13th 2021 Drama in the chess community was really heating up between GM Hikaru, Eric Hansen’s “Chessbrah” channel, and Chessbae. Reportedly, Hikaru was accused of copyright striking Eric Hansen’s channel. The claim came from Bent Pixels Select, which is a company that works with both Hikaru and TSM in general. In these accusations, a pair of Chessbrah (Eric Hansen’s YouTube channel) videos were copies of GM Hikaru’s and were thus copyright struck. However, GM Hikaru has come out with an apology. Split From

Eric Hansen says chessbae drove him apart from Alexandra Botez

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Josse Van Dessel • Apr 13, 15:56In a recent stream, chess Grandmaster Eric Hansen has accused controversial personality chessbae of forcing an end to a relationship involving him and Alexandra Botez after chessbae allegedly abused her moderation powers on Chess.com. Eric Hansen has shed light on the extent of chessbae's abuse of her moderation privileges on Chess.com. According to Hansen, chessbae threatened to exclude Botez from having her Twitch channel hosted on the Chess.com website if she continued collaborating with Eric Hansen's channel, chessbrah. The accusations come only a day