{"id":46861,"date":"2026-08-08T16:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/pawns-knights-and-streamers-how-chess-became-an-esport-giant\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:56:20","slug":"pawns-knights-and-streamers-how-chess-became-an-esport-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/pawns-knights-and-streamers-how-chess-became-an-esport-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawns, knights, and streamers: How chess became an esport giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If someone told you 10 years ago that classical grandmasters sitting quietly in suit jackets would be rocking esports jerseys and sharing a stage with high-octane shooters, you probably would have laughed them out of the room. Yet here we are. Chess has officially cemented its place on the global competitive stage at the Esports World Cup&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/chess-esports-world-cup-2026\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone told you 10 years ago that classical grandmasters sitting quietly in suit jackets would be rocking esports jerseys and sharing a stage with high-octane shooters, you probably would have laughed them out of the room. Yet here we are. Chess has officially cemented its place on the global competitive stage at the Esports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}