A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess

Re:A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess by gk1 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:16AM (#23550964)

This sentiment is rightly being called out as elitism.

Reminds me of skateboarding in the 90s when some skateboarders would hate on newbies who got into skateboarding as a result of Tony Hawk, X-Games, THPS, or any other reason that wasn’t deemed pure or authentic. Now they marvel at the fact that skateboarding is an Olympic sport... Yeah, no thanks to you!

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Re:A grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess by capableweb on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:23AM (#23551044)

I agree! For sure elitism. Judging by the downvotes, I wasn't clear that I didn't agree with the standpoint.

I think every ecosystem at points go through this "elitism" fad when it reaches a certain threshold of members. Seemingly to keep X being a niche they can identify with, instead of something mainstream some people only do for fun.

Point is, not exclusive to chess, just as gk1 pointed out.

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