Young Canadian chess stars lead drive to popularize the royal game on Twitch
Article content In late January, Nemo Zhou paused her studies at the University of Toronto, all the better to play nightly sessions of online chess, sometimes into the wee hours. For the 21-year-old, who lived in Ottawa before moving to Toronto in 2018, the board game is much more than a cerebral diversion. Zhou was a child chess prodigy who won the Canadian Women’s Chess Championship in 2016 and holds the internationally recognized title of Woman Grandmaster. With her economics and statistics classes on hold, she can put more energy into her exploits on Twitch, the world’s leading stream...
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