During the Carlsen – Anand World Championship match in Sochi, an average of about 175,000 people joined my commentary for each game (blog, twitter, and facebook), with a high of well over 200,000. These are the numbers for game...
Well over 1 billion followers of the entire World Championship
The FIDE World Chess Championship between the Norwegian “Mozart of Chess” Magnus Carlsen and the Indian “Tiger from Madras” Viswanathan Anand is scoring possibly the highest viewership and readership numbers for chess in history. Up to round 8 the...
Chessdom stats
Chessdom stats and advertising price list June – September 2010statistics made public, new formats available After yet another record period for Chessdom.com and the successful promotion of the WCC 2010, the statistics of the website and the demographics have...
Big surge from the Philippines and Norway
Top 15 countries (of 127) which follow this blog in the past 24 hours 24.32% Philippines 18.92% United States 12.16% Norway 9.46% Japan 5.41% Netherlands 5.41% Spain 4.05% Canada 4.05% United Kingdom 2.70% Italy 2.70% India 2.70% Israel 1.35%...
Biggest blocks of game players are female
Female Demographic is PC Gaming’s Largest, Says Nielsen ReportBy Earnest Cavalli April 08, 2009 2:44:11 PM Women have recently been making inroads into the traditionally male-dominated world of videogames, but would you believe that the fairer sex makes up...
Measuring the match excitement
During the 3+ hours of game 5, about 20,000 unique users logged into this blog to follow the analysis. In the 4.5 hours of game 6, about 49, 500 unique users logged in for this game from 109 countries....