Chess Nerds: The Secret to Web3 Adoption?

TL;DR

• There’s a brand new Web3 chess sport being supported by Chess.com and Magnus Carlsen (chess has ~605M international lively gamers, who are actually all potential new Web3 customers).

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There’s this dude on our writing crew, let’s name him “Bevvy Shmassar”…

In case you had been to ask Bevvy what his favourite guide was, he’d say “Walden, by Henry David Thoreau.“

However right here’s the factor…

This man’s by no means really learn Walden – he simply thinks that claiming he has will make him look sensible.

In actuality, his favourite guide is ‘The Identify of the Wind,’ by Patrick Rothfuss – a 672 web page nerd bible, for fantasy freaks.

Why’re we telling you this?

As a result of all of us have a “Bevvy” in our lives – and it’s our guess that they’re all about to begin secretly enjoying a brand new Web3-powered sport that goes by the identify ‘Anichess.’

Right here’s the essential gist of it:

It’s Chess…

However with the addition of magic spell casting, a fantasy storyline and free-to-collect NFTs referred to as ‘Orbs of Energy.’

(Severely, it is a actual factor).

And we’re genuinely excited for it! Not a lot for the sport itself, however for the stats behind it…

Verify this out:

• Chess is performed recurrently by 605M adults worldwide

• Anichess is being supported by Chess.com and Chess’ #1 participant / poster-child / dangerous boy Magnus Carlsen.

Now, contemplate this…

• Fortnite and PUBG, the 2 largest video video games by lively player-base, have 525M month-to-month lively gamers COMBINED!

• Chess.com alone will get 191M guests per thirty days (if that had been ranked as a online game, it’d be #3 on this planet by month-to-month lively customers).

• Plus, getting an endorsement from Magnus Carlsen on a chess-based sport, is like getting Tom Brady’s backing on an NFL online game.

Is Anichess going to be a success? No concept ¯_(ツ)_/¯

However! If it does handle to catch on, it should have loads of room to develop.

And with each new Anichess participant, comes a brand new Web3 person.

We like to see it!