Some days ago IM Rozman tweeted about the decline of the chess boom. I have taken a look at the Twitch chess data and the monthly games played on Lichess since the chess Twitch peak that happened in February 2021.
Cool analysis and graphs! Maybe you could acknowledge that you have no data on chess.com - the site that is heavily featured on Twitch streams. Hard to generalize such as "people keep playing chess" when one big part of the picture is missing...
I have seen this myself. I used to watch Twitch streamers almost nightly, but now, I can't remember the last time I watched a stream, weeks, maybe even a couple of months. Great article!
Is the chess (Twitch) boom over?
Great chess newsletter, both to you and to Nate
Cool analysis and graphs! Maybe you could acknowledge that you have no data on chess.com - the site that is heavily featured on Twitch streams. Hard to generalize such as "people keep playing chess" when one big part of the picture is missing...
I have seen this myself. I used to watch Twitch streamers almost nightly, but now, I can't remember the last time I watched a stream, weeks, maybe even a couple of months. Great article!