Rosen streams to prominence

BEFORE the pandemic and before Queen's Gambit, the universe of chess streaming was tucked away in one of the smaller corners of the internet. The game had a following online, this much was known. But it was sort of an underground moment. The above-mentioned hit series on Netflix coincided with a chess boom. It paved the way for chess streaming. Eric Rosen has seen both sides.

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When he started out as a streamer as a side gig in 2017, it was a 'small community,' he tells this daily. These days, Rosen is one of the largest planets in the chess streaming universe.

Rosen, one of the most popular content creators vis-a-vis chess (688K subscribers on YouTube and 257K on Twitch), is candid on how he got into streaming. Excerpts:

On how he became a streamer