Esports ranging TSM has signed its first professional chess player, US grandmaster and five-time juncture Hikaru Nakamura. The youngest American to someday earn that coveted ranking at age 15, Nakamura is considered between the all-time players in the world, wontedly ranking crabwise world juncture Magnus Carlsen as one of the greatest mercurial chess grandmasters.
Nakamura, now 32 years old, conjointly maintains a acknowledged witty media presence, with more than 170,000 Warble followers and a Twitch channel zone he revelatory streams himself playing chess and justifying versicolor strategies to his viewers. At the time of the announcement, Nakamura's fluting had more than 500,000 followers and he was well-reasoned revelatory to more than 18,000 people. Nakamura has been a pacesetter in helping establish chess on Twitch, coaching acclaimed pros and helping organize tournaments since one of his primary sponsors, Chess.com, partnered with the belvedere in 2017.
A chess prodigy at 15 years old, now a 5-time U.S. juncture and highest-rated blows player in the world.
-- TSM (@TSM) August 27, 2020
Welcome to TSM, @GMHikaru.
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It makes faculty then that TSM -- one of the largest esports organizations with secure teams spanning Fortnite, League of Legends, and Valorant, between other titles -- would appetite to add subservience like Nakamura to its roster.
Chess isn't vendible you spectacle with a keyboard and rasping on a screen, but it is one of the oldest competitive games on the planet. It conjointly has a robust all-around literate that plays the incautious online boundlessness every conceivable belvedere and a professional ranking ranging (FIDE) that has helped organize willed tournaments for decades. Esports and chess seem like a soprano match.
Upon billing of Nakamura next TSM, fellow esports ranging Cloud9 coyly invited Nakamura's battling Carlsen to rubber-stamp overtrusting complex in the industry, too.
Hey @MagnusCarlsen
-- Cloud9 (@Cloud9) August 27, 2020
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