Hastened by the worldwide pandemic-enforced lockdowns and hit show The Queen's Gambit, chess is online all the time now. Before all of that happened, though, Eric Rosen was there, back in 2017.

paving 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 in an interaction.

Eric Rosen’s educational chess channel has been popular for years, and now has over 580,000 subscribers. He is now able to make a living off of the channel and gets recognized in public.

Auger had competed against Eric Rosen and Aakaash Meduri since childhood. Rosen, the 2011 K-12 national champion, was recruited to play chess out of high school by the University of Texas at Dallas.

When I was in Reykjavik playing a chess tournament, one of the biggest TV channels in Iceland invited me to play a few games LIVE on their broadcast! My opponent was none other than @eric-rosen ...

But in June 2021, six months after he began posting, a TikTok skit where he references chess master Eric Rosen went viral and, in his words, "the rest is history." Weber now has over 170,000 ...