Esports organisation TSM has signed its first skilled player, U.S. player and five-time champion Hikaru Nakamura.
While finding out a chess streamer might sound sort of a surprise to fans who area unit principally acquainted watching Fortnite and Call of Duty: Warzone on Twitch, it’s one of the Twitch’s quickest growing classes over the last many months. As Insider pointed in July, chess has gained a serious following throughout the COVID-19 pandemic with over usual YouTube views and frequent journeys into the highest 20 most streamed games on Twitch.
He is a five-time United States Chess Champion and has represented his country in the Chess Olympiads five times. “I got my start in Chess at the age of seven years old and I was really young… I played a lot became the youngest master in America at 10 years old breaking records there. I’ve won the United States Child Championship five times which is the third most… Then I broke Bobby Fisher’s record, the former World Champion to become the Grandmaster… And, I’m also number one ranked in the World Blitz Chess, so I’m just the best,” Nakamura said.
Hikaru isn’t solely knowledgeable Chess player, but also popular on Twitch. He’s an enormous name on streaming platform Twitch, having over 500,000 followers and thousands of concurrent viewers observation and learning from his streams. He’s principally seen taking part in online chess on his ownor explaining details of strategic gameplay.