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#	Player	Country	Elo
1	Magnus Carlsen	🇳🇴	2839
2	Fabiano Caruana	🇺🇸	2786
3	Hikaru Nakamura	🇺🇸	2780
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The explosion in popularity, personalities, and memes over the last few years has been awesome to see. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'm a big fan of Magnus. Dude is overall a good role model, respectful and serious most of the time, while also being meme-ey, approachable and fun. Unique playstyle to boot.

He's actually largely responsible for me personally starting to pay attention to the game again. I hadn't even played in years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Magnus is so good for the chess community.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Magnus is great, Naroditsky is my favorite though!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think the rumors about this one guy cheating by allegedly putting something up his ass really resonated with a new generation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Resonated with him too, if you know what I mean.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

As someone who has only seen agadmator's videos.. And no clue about other famous people, can someone tell who are the people in the picture, other than Magnus and Anya Taylor Joy?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bottom right is Levy aka Gotham Chess on YouTube. Top right is another famous YouTuber, I forget her name but she recently won chess streamer of the year (maybe last year).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Top right are the Botez sisters, if I'm not mistaken.

[–] noli 1 points 8 months ago

As the other response said: top right are the botez sisters, bottom right levy rozman a.k.a. gothamchess, bottom left is tyler1, a famous streamer from the league of legends scene who started playing a lot of chess. Interspersed around the licture are also small hikaru's whom you probably do know if you watch agadmator

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Um Ackshully

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Chess in 100 years from now:

5d chess with multiverse time travel

Infinite chess

Shotgun king

Chessboxing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Chess 2

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Tyler1 is playing chess now?

I don't know how to feel about this.

1500 elo...

Okay, fair enough, I can see there being some transferrable skills.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't put it as a highlight myself.

Let the spotlight be on good chess streamers who care about the sport VS someone just doing it for the lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I've never watched him, but apparently he won "chess streamer of the year" recently, which surprised a lot of people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's been pretty incredible. He started from absolutely nothing, just ground the everliving hell out of the game, and after a year he's... good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Chess tomorrow https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt8XnDfyTpc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Haha, how have I not seen this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

En passant, hotter than ever

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Holy hell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

No Chess Simp?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Chess 35 years ago: