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Re:Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform by francisofascii on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:27PM (#26840149)
Not just that. Chess.com also saw a huge surge when Covid began.
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Re:Garry Kasparov launches a community-first chess platform by jointpdf on Friday April 16, 2021 @10:14PM (#26841082)
Since the Lichess database is open, you can see the effect of both covid and QG on the number of games played. But the growth has been exponential for years. Check out the first two plots on this page (notice the log scale):

https://github.com/Paul566/chessOpeningStats

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