Chess.com has just released a new feature to their website. It is called the events feature, and lets you watch live games on a normal chessboard as it is happening. In addition to viewing live games, you would also be able to watch previous games and even analyze the moves that the professionals made in those games with a computer.
I think that this feature is going to be really cool because it is a better way to watch a professional game. At the moment, you could watch a live game online with commentary from professional GMs, but having the games from past tournaments in this new event mode will be really cool because you won’t need to have to search for a specific game that you may really want to watch and have it not be online.
The coolest part about this is that it is basically a version of the ESPN app for chess. It makes the game more of a sport by showing player statistics and the live brackets of the tournaments.
I think that this is a very good idea, especially because of how it makes chess more of a sport. Before this, chess may have been seen by some people as not being a sport because of the lack of having a section on ESPN, but now that wouldn’t be necessary because chess.com created their own ESPN. This feature has the potential to bring chess viewership to a whole new level like never before.
What do you think about this feature being created on chess.com? Would you start following chess because of it?
Hi Isaac. This sounds like a really fun feature! I haven't played chess in a while, and if I'm being honest, I've never seen chess as a sport. I think this new addition created on chess.com really makes chess look more like a sport now though. I personally am not interested in watching chess games, but this is good to know about because chess can be a really fun, interesting game! I'm sure this feature will help a lot of players who want to improve and gain new strategies.
ReplyDeleteHi Isaac, this feature sounds interesting. I think it is an excellent resource to help people improve their chess games. However, I do not think it will make chess more popular because professional chess games are often very fast. I'm assuming there is an option to slow down the speed of games, though. I would like to improve my chess game, so maybe I'll give this feature a try!
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