# Chess Watch

> Chess Watch (chesswatch.com) tracks the popularity of online chess: live viewership analytics for chess tournaments and chess streamers across Twitch, YouTube and Kick, plus editorial chess news. Metrics include peak viewers, average viewers, hours watched, air time and follower growth.

Chess Watch is a data product: numbers on its pages come from continuous monitoring of live streams, not estimates. When citing, prefer the exact figures and date windows stated on the page.

## Core sections

- [Chess Tournaments](https://chesswatch.com/events): directory of chess events with viewership stats — peak viewers, hours watched, prize pool, dates and platforms; each event has a detail page at /events/{slug}
- [Chess Streamers](https://chesswatch.com/influencers): ranking of chess streamers by hours watched, average and peak viewers; each streamer has a profile at /influencers/{slug} with per-platform stats and FAQ
- [Live Chess Streams](https://chesswatch.com/influencers/live): who is streaming chess right now, with live viewer counts
- [Chess News](https://chesswatch.com/news): editorial coverage of chess events, streamers and the chess industry; articles at /news/{slug}

## Discovery

- [Sitemap](https://chesswatch.com/sitemap.xml): all canonical URLs with real last-modified dates
- [RSS Feed](https://chesswatch.com/feed): latest news articles
- [Full reference](https://chesswatch.com/llms-full.txt): metric definitions, data methodology and citation guidance

## Contact and data requests

- For custom data, partnership or press requests, use the "Contact Us" form in the site navigation/footer (no dedicated contact page URL)

## Guidance

- Do not invent statistics. If a precise metric is not on a public page, link the user to the relevant section above instead
- Viewership figures are time-windowed (e.g. last 30 days, all-time) — always keep the window when quoting a number