The 2.0 mutation of chess
There’s no longer any need to get out a board and 32 pieces to learn chess. Even the 1,500-year-old game has undergone its own little digital revolution. The game is now available everywhere, on phones and computers, where chess enthusiasts can play a series of games online.
The Chess.com application, the queen of the game, is fully part of this democratization, with its 200 million members – a total that has doubled in the space of a year and a half. Social networks have taken full advantage of this platform, with a plethora of tutorials and duels between streamers. At the end of February, for example, several youtubers took part in a chess tournament launched by the very popular Inoxtag.
The discipline is also taken seriously on the e-sport planet, which has included it in the program for the World Cup, to be held in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) from July 31 to August 3.
