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Most popular chess streamers on YouTube
chess24 holds the chess streaming record on YouTube: 185 240 viewers at once on 24 August 2023, ahead of ChessBase India (174 456). The ranking covers channels currently streaming chess on YouTube, measured from live broadcasts since 2019 and refreshed hourly.
Top 50 chess YouTube channels by peak viewers
All-time peak on chess streams, with the date it was set
Peak viewers = the most people watching a channel at one moment while it streamed chess, with the date it happened (UTC). Twitch channels under 1,000 followers are left out of the peak ranking — a big peak with almost no followers is nearly always view-botting. Followers are the current count.
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Who is the most popular chess streamer on YouTube?
chess24 (YouTube Live): 185 240 people watched at the same time on 24 August 2023 — the biggest live audience a chess channel has drawn on YouTube.Who are the top 5 chess streamers by peak viewers on YouTube?
The five biggest chess channels by all-time peak viewers:
What does peak viewers mean for a streamer?
The highest number of people watching the channel at one moment while it streamed chess, observed live by Chess Watch — the date next to it is when that happened. Peaks from other games or IRL streams do not count here, and Twitch channels under 1,000 followers are excluded as likely view-botting. It is a record, not an average: the 7- and 30-day rankings on the main streamers page show current form.Which channels count as chess streamers?
Channels on Twitch, YouTube and Kick whose recent broadcasts are in the Chess category — official broadcasters such as Chess.com and chess24, co-streamers and creators who play on stream. A channel that moved to another game drops off the board until it streams chess again; Chinese platforms are not tracked.