Eighteen-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju is the world’s newest chess champion — and the youngest. Dommaraju defeated defending titleholder Ding Liren at the World Chess Championship in Singapore this past week.
PBS News' John Yang sat down with author and content creator Levy Rozman, known online as GothamChess, to discuss what the future of competitive chess looks like.
"What excites me the most is right now we've got a lot of innovators, we've got people coming in, trying to speed the game up," Rozman said. "And the biggest problem that chess has is that it's not a TV product in a sports form. ... We need to make it digestible and understandable for people at home."
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Eighteen-year-old Gukesh Dommaraju is the world’s newest chess champion — and the youngest. Dommaraju defeated defending titleholder Ding Liren at the World Chess Championship in Singapore this past week.
PBS News' John Yang sat down with author and content creator Levy Rozman, known online as GothamChess, to discuss what the future of competitive chess looks like.
"What excites me the most is right now we've got a lot of innovators, we've got people coming in, trying to speed the game up," Rozman said. "And the biggest problem that chess has is that it's not a TV product in a sports form. ... We need to make it digestible and understandable for people at home."
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