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I think a big part of the popularity is that chess is just a really cool game but before the rise of chesscom it was heavily gate-kept. Before online chess was accessible and reliable you would have to join a chess club and play in tournaments if you wanted to play with anyone but your friends. I've been playing chess consistently for about 7 years now and I still haven't joined a real club, purely because it's unfamiliar and intimidating.

it is not lol

The local Denver chess scene is so fun we've grown tons over the passed three years I've been at Oprah's Rook Club. Used to have 20 people at the brewery now we're packing out at over 70. More than 120 people come to our annual chess carnival. The only chess carnival where you can get beat by a blindfolded clown who's actually a 2100. We are always trying to make it more welcoming to women and now we've got some legit threats (Emma scary good). Come play with us if your ever in Denver on a Wednesday!

I love you lula and I love chess but I am really sick of this women and chess thing. The reason - historically - there haven't been many women chess role models is because they weren't very good - at least not compared to the top male players. Only 3 women, Maia Chiburdanidze, Judit Polgár, and Hou Yifan, have been ranked in the world's top 100 players. To be fair, not many people have heard of any famous male chess players, either, so maybe you are barking up the wrong tree? If you think about it, The Queen's Gambit portrays a totally unrealistic event, i.e. a woman beating a Russian world champion at the time. Shouldn't you be criticizing the historical unlikelihood of this (even if it is based on the book), or at least celebrating Walter Tevis's 'woke' approach? Before you shout misogynist, I think it is great that more women are playing chess, tbh, I don't really care, but please don't blame the media for not presenting many female role models, there just aren't many. Yet. :-)

Hi Lula. I am surprised that you didn't mention TH-cam creator, Agadmator. He covers all the major chess tournaments (most recently Tata steel) and analysing games (played by Grandmasters), but talks us through them as if we are all 1500 rated. His pause the video moments are usually solvable, but we are not all GMs and I am often totally flummoxed, even when he shows us the move. Check him out.

hmmm...yes, but be careful! Correspondence chess games always fall foul of computer programs, which are tremendously powerful at calculations, etc! What tends to occur is that you end up playing against an opponent who is using something like AlphaZero, Houdini, Fritz or Stockfish! [The ELO of these programs is something like 3500 -4000!!! way beyond the human mind - at best about 2850] . So...the vast majority of these games end up as a DRAW [I have collected over 40 A4 pages of tournament results from all over the World that have virtually ALL games in A DRAW hence everyone ends up FIRST EQUAL?!! Even chess 960 game positions can be analyzed by computer programs now! Play chess by all means, but...the true test of a player's ability is to play a game 'OVER THE BOARD' [ie. literally 'face to face] with no assistance at all! [As Susan Polgar once remarked:' players must not resort to any assistance at all when playing a game!'] Easier said than done, I'm afraid! Sadly, this is not always possible and Internet chess is all the rage! Or...you could merely play against the computer since you are able to set the playing strength and the time limits - now there's a thought!!

I liked the 'you're cooked' part. Highlighting the fact ADHD is a choice in the same way lying and stealing is.

Interesting you mentioned that you hoped women with chess addicted boyfriends would just try the game. A chess bar opened in Lille in September which has pretty decent footfall, but what I have really noticed is the volume of couples that come in and play together. If you can’t beat them, join them

I have no idea how chess became popular, all I know is it has a long history. And it was mostly just a hobby for the really young, they're really old. And nerds and Geeks Who are into that, but then chess got popular. Not just those games are boardgaming, butt gaming in general. And chess, was just one of those mainstream things on the board. But because of its known success, people tend to play chess a lot. But what do I no. I'm just some man, it's the Scarlet 20s

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I started playing chess as a 6yo in 1969 and through the 1970s local news papers always had news of international chess tournaments. Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer were the prominent names at that time. My year 7 teacher (1975) started promoting chess in the classroom and it quickly caught on among the students, both girls and boys. Interest in chess started to fall away in the late 1970s and through the '80s. I hope chess continues to rise in popularity this time around.

As a man who loves chess let me say that it's sadly all too easy to overstate the extent of the world's "chess boom." But the truth is that chess is not particularly popular anywhere despite what some chess streamers say. There are over a billion people in China and another billion in India, two emerging chess super powers, who know and care nothing about chess. Don't get me wrong, as a five time Bay Shore (Long Island New York) Chess Club Champion and the 2016 - 2017 Most Valuable Player award winner in Division B of the Manhattan New York based Commercial Chess League of New York (CCLNY) I would love to see chess become genuinely popular. But people are basically the same worldwide. The world loves "fashion driven drones" who embrace anything fashionable among their social peers while rejecting nearly anything that isn't. But the world hates nerds. You can cite all kinds of statistics for the so called "chess boom." But most tournament chess players are children who are only in chess because their mostly non-chess playing parents see some benefit in it for them. And most of those children will abandon chess before hitting their teens. Most adult chess players only or mostly play anonymously online where relatively very few people online know who they are. And most non-chess playing people in their lives don't even know they play online chess. In the city of New York only the extremely expensive Marshall Chess Club has over the board chess tournaments on anything close to a daily basis. As for women being under represented in chess, there's no doubt that the quality of life in the chess world would benefit enormously from say an additional 100,000 beautiful intelligent women like the author of this video. And the world at large is full of women who are sexy, brilliant, and charismatic. But don't expect chess to ever become really popular with women. Why? Reason number one is that for complex biological reasons mostly beyond our scope here most women have an almost inexhaustible capacity to be "bored" and chess simply doesn't supply the kind of jolt of novelty that they subconsciously crave. Thus even most male chess players with at least average social skills find that women and chess are necessarily separate interests. Reason number two is that the male dominated chess world is hugely over represented by men who are somewhere on the autistic spectrum. And nothing is more unattractive to women than even mildly autistic men. That's too bad because no game comes close to rewarding even small amounts of work than chess (though not necessarily chess960). Anyone not severely disabled can easily and quickly become better at chess than 99+% of people who claim to "know how to play chess." In addition with even only a modest amount of work most people can within a few years easily become better than most amateur tournament chess players. Why? That's how good the quality and quantity of information available to aspiring chess players (great free online chess playing computer chess assistants, great free online player chess databases, and great free online chess websites as well as great free online chess streamers) is. If only more women knew this they might be more tempted to give chess a try if only for the social validation that could easily be theirs thereby. In fact there are a number of female chess streamers with thousands of followers and Patreon or PayPal pages who despite their extremely modest chess skills (no names please), with the help of chess technology produce fairly decent online chess content. Now I cannot deny that there is still much too much inappropriate male behavior towards female chess players, (though 50+ years ago it was much worse). But most male chess players I know would go out of their way to be welcoming, respectful, and helpful to female chess players. But women have 5 to 6 times as many brain cells devoted to subtle social cues as their male counterparts. And since the world hates nerds the potential growth of female chess players is thus quite limited. Now it is true that in contrast to 50 years ago when there were only a few, today there are scores of women in the world who are 2400+ FIDE strength. But most male chess players have little or no chance of connecting socially much less romantically with those women. Women can talk all they want about "equality" but female attraction is ruled by a subconscious desire to connect with males above them on the human dominance hierarchy however individual women subconsciously perceive that. This is because homo sapiens haven't changed biologically in 50,000+ years even though today's world is a lot different from 50,000 years ago. 50,000 years ago women needed uncommonly stable and resourceful men to protect them from hostile tribes and wild animals. And while the world is very different now people are still wired the same way they were then. Simply stated, human evolution is ruled by the law of the jungle where even women long past their child bearing years are subconsciously drawn only to men they subconsciously view as "prime breeding stock." And in nature the individual is always expendable.

What?? Men don’t go around taking inspiration from Bobby Fischer or Magnus Carlsen because they are men. People got into chess because of Queens Gambit but not because the protagonist is a woman. I am a guy it peeked my interest too. It was not until India won both men and women’s Olympiad that got me really interested in chess. Stop selling women to take inspiration because there are female superstars.

Great video Lula ❤️👏🏻😊

It became popular in India boz of boz of samay Raina n chessbase india which led to huge development of community n frm past 2 yeras indian young players made it more popular n now indian chessbase india stream was had highest viewership of worldcup between gukesh n ding n its growing everyday

Queen's Gambit --> Pogchamps 1 w/ xQc--> Hikaru Nakamura

The world of tournament bridge could definitely benefit from a movie like Queen's Gambit.

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Backgammon continues to languish in obscurity.

Do you know Brazil's president is called Lula?

5:26 Such an iconic clip from that Pogchamps 😂

The Queens Gambit got me into chess, and through chess I managed to fix a lot of things in my life. Then I knew Dina Belenkaya, Levy Rozman and Daniel Naroditsky and I said yes, this is my happy place.

11:25 Which theory? There is no lowest ELO you can have, it can go well into the negatives

2:10 thank God that I, as a man, was exposed to such good male chess role models as: bobby fisher... Oh wait oh no-. Haha jk yeah it's so underepresented for women

0:06 how can someone start a video with an oxymoron?

I believe it got popular because of Covid

Well said. I think another reason that started getting chess popular was covid. A lot of people were at home during that time looking for something to do. So they looked into chess and the chess community took advantage of that by many of the things you mentioned.

Esse é o vídeo do mundo que não tem terroristas. O campeonato mundial de xadrez nunca foi invadido e o campeão não é a pessoa que mais agrada eles.

As a chess player, I believe that regular 8x8 chess has become boring. That's why I have designed several 10x10 astonishing chess variants. (not published on my channel yet).

When I was doing my C2 English exam last June I believe, I literally had a whole reading comprehension about Chess STREAMERS. Quite a surprise that one haha

I played 1.e4 almost exclusively at first for many years, but as I got older and (slightly) better I gradually switched to playing 1.d4 (or even 1.c4) more often. But I must admit that apart from when I was a complete beginner I've never replied to 1.e4 with 1...e5. And when I do play 1.e4 myself now very few people respond with 1...e5 either!

Thanks for an interesting overview. I learned to play chess when I was five and I'm now in my fifties. While I'm happy that chess is getting more attention nowadays, I'm honestly baffled by a lot of the modern popularity of chess. I'm not a gamer so I have no idea who these PogChamps players are! I enjoy watching Danya and Eric Rosen here on TH-cam but NOT Levy or Hikaru who really grind my gears. I guess I miss chess being a nerdy hobby that I loved. It's turned into something very different.

" I'm a chess player, but also, I'm a normal person". Thought that was so funny. Haha. Actually, started getting interested in chess about a year ago when watching female players such as Anna, Dina and Allessia among others.

The chess boom has been exciting since I remember articles from 10+ years ago that talked about the decline in chess. There was some hope that chess in school programs in the UK and India would help the next generation to get into chess. Hopefully a bunch of streamers and school chess programs will get a bunch of young girls into chess such that the culture will actually change in the future.

Was this video stuck on processing for 5 years? Lol your thumbnail examples are the world chess champion, a master level TH-camr, a chess show from like 4 years ago, and xQC who did pogchamps before queens gambit I think.

I miss the times when chess players were nerds who were interested in the game, and not cool hipsters who admire Botez and Levy, but have no idea who Capablanca or Fischer is.

If this was a male presenting this video, it would have a fraction of the views. Why men simp over women?

Why is everyone playing chess? Not very many people play chess. It's true that the popularity in chess has grown, but most people don't play chess.

No.4 is a chess rule? 🤔

I like to solve chess problems/puzzles. I rarely play IRL, sometimes vs bots online, never vs humans

I love you, Lula. But you disrespected my goat Ronaldo like that.

I knew all these.

She’s really really pretty.

Indeed

Thanks for this video Lularobs. I hope it gets much wider coverage! How do you and any fellow female chess players find things now? Are there any difficulties at clubs, at tournaments, etc?

I used to play chess a lot when I was a teen because it was fun. But I learned that if you really want to get good at chess you have to invest a huge amount of time, and the payoff isn't the that good unlike pro golf and tennis. Nowadays humans can no longer beat computers at chess, and eventually computers are going to prove that chess is nothing more than a complex game of tic-tac-toe. With best play on both sides every game will end in a draw.

For me it was Magnus Carlsen, really young world champ at the time and from a western nation.

Chess has better character design than most modern games. The storyline is pretty good too