Rosen streams to prominence

BEFORE the pandemic and before Queen's Gambit, the universe of chess streaming was tucked away in one of the smaller corners of the internet.

- SWAROOP SWAMINATHAN

The game had a following online, this much was known. But it was sort of an underground moment. The above-mentioned hit series on Netflix coincided with a chess boom. It paved the way for chess streaming. Eric Rosen has seen both sides.

When he started out as a streamer as a side gig in 2017, it was a 'small community,' he tells this daily. These days, Rosen is one of the largest planets in the chess streaming universe.

Rosen, one of the most popular content creators vis-a-vis chess (688K subscribers on YouTube and 257K on Twitch), is candid on how he got into streaming. Excerpts:

On how he became a streamer