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I found it interesting that there was a stream on twitch.tv that had over 10,000 viewers for this. It's how I found it, not being much a chess follower but stil

by mbell 12y ago

I found it interesting that there was a stream on twitch.tv that had over 10,000 viewers for this. It's how I found it, not being much a chess follower but still finding the game interesting. I was a very surprised to see so many viewers.

ixwt 12y ago
Jerry (ChessNetwork) will stream sometimes (typically once a month) and will normally get 3-4k viewers. He normally plays speed chess, vocalizing his thoughts as he plays. Sometimes he will play several timed games at once. He's an interesting personality. I enjoy watching him. He did the same thing during the last grandmaster match of Carlsen v. Anand.
- kazagistar 12y ago
  For a 1-man show, the production quality was pretty good. Discussion of possibilities, consulting with both chess databases and computer algorithms for potential moves, and a constant stream of high level analysis of possibilities and positions that allows even a novice like me to at least get a taste of what goes through the minds the these grandmasters. I hope he keeps it up; it certainly has rekindled my appreciation for chess.
- icelancer 12y ago
  Jerry's blitz games are awesome to watch. Especially when he blunders - takes it incredibly well and always in good humor.
- prezjordan 12y ago
  He's ridiculously entertaining. My favorite Jerry moment is when he becomes the victim of a Scholar's Mate here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwsw1W7eotQ&t=24m30s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwsw1W7eotQ&t=24m30s (at 24:30) It's also the beauty of chess - you can be down by a mile and come back when your opponent blunders. At my level (awful) it happens all the time.
davyjones 12y ago
Quite a chess following in India. And likely that many were watching because of V. Anand.
- cubancigar11 12y ago
  Well, chess was invented in India :)
kristofferR 12y ago
Last year in Chennai VG, the second largest newspaper in Norway, had up to 250.000 daily stream views while the TV channel NRK had up to 450.000 daily views. Both VG and NRK do a great job of making the streams accessible and fun to ordinary people who aren't really into chess, and a lot probably watch due to national proudness, yet it's still cool to see so high ratings for chess. VG has a great interface for the games, with text updates, computer calculations, tweet/questions, best moves, live stream from studio etc: http://direkte.vg.no/studio/sjakkvm2014-9 http://direkte.vg.no/studio/sjakkvm2014-9
PhantomGremlin 12y ago
> I was a very surprised to see so many viewers. Well, once upon a time (i.e. 42 years ago), during the Cold War, we had the "Match of the Century"[1], aka Fischer-Spassky. The dominant evil empire USSR against the upstart USA. Played in Reykjavík, Iceland over a period lasting more than 6 weeks. Certainly more than 10,000 people were "interested" in the proceedings. I was "glued" to the local NYC PBS station as Shelby Lyman "narrated". Those two words are in quotes, because moves might arrive two or three at a time, about every 15 or 30 minutes or so. In the meantime poor Shelby could do nothing but ad-lib, speculate as to what might be happening. The local PBS station devoted many many hours a week to this play-by-play. Times have changed. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1972 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1972

by mbell 12y ago

ixwt 12y ago

Jerry (ChessNetwork) will stream sometimes (typically once a month) and will normally get 3-4k viewers. He normally plays speed chess, vocalizing his thoughts as he plays. Sometimes he will play several timed games at once. He's an interesting personality. I enjoy watching him. He did the same thing during the last grandmaster match of Carlsen v. Anand.

kazagistar 12y ago
For a 1-man show, the production quality was pretty good. Discussion of possibilities, consulting with both chess databases and computer algorithms for potential moves, and a constant stream of high level analysis of possibilities and positions that allows even a novice like me to at least get a taste of what goes through the minds the these grandmasters. I hope he keeps it up; it certainly has rekindled my appreciation for chess.
icelancer 12y ago
Jerry's blitz games are awesome to watch. Especially when he blunders - takes it incredibly well and always in good humor.
prezjordan 12y ago
He's ridiculously entertaining. My favorite Jerry moment is when he becomes the victim of a Scholar's Mate here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwsw1W7eotQ&t=24m30s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwsw1W7eotQ&t=24m30s (at 24:30) It's also the beauty of chess - you can be down by a mile and come back when your opponent blunders. At my level (awful) it happens all the time.

davyjones 12y ago

Quite a chess following in India. And likely that many were watching because of V. Anand.

cubancigar11 12y ago
Well, chess was invented in India :)

kristofferR 12y ago

Last year in Chennai VG, the second largest newspaper in Norway, had up to 250.000 daily stream views while the TV channel NRK had up to 450.000 daily views. Both VG and NRK do a great job of making the streams accessible and fun to ordinary people who aren't really into chess, and a lot probably watch due to national proudness, yet it's still cool to see so high ratings for chess. VG has a great interface for the games, with text updates, computer calculations, tweet/questions, best moves, live stream from studio etc: http://direkte.vg.no/studio/sjakkvm2014-9 http://direkte.vg.no/studio/sjakkvm2014-9

PhantomGremlin 12y ago

> I was a very surprised to see so many viewers. Well, once upon a time (i.e. 42 years ago), during the Cold War, we had the "Match of the Century"[1], aka Fischer-Spassky. The dominant evil empire USSR against the upstart USA. Played in Reykjavík, Iceland over a period lasting more than 6 weeks. Certainly more than 10,000 people were "interested" in the proceedings. I was "glued" to the local NYC PBS station as Shelby Lyman "narrated". Those two words are in quotes, because moves might arrive two or three at a time, about every 15 or 30 minutes or so. In the meantime poor Shelby could do nothing but ad-lib, speculate as to what might be happening. The local PBS station devoted many many hours a week to this play-by-play. Times have changed. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1972 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1972