January 7, 2021· 47 min
Chess Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura on Twitch Streaming and “The Queen's Gambit”
Orality
Model
50%
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(1,666 words)
M:93%
HostJoe Weisenthal(1,538 words)
M:28%
GuestHikaru Nakamura(0 words)
M:28%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic49%
literally, completely, very
Engagement82%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
like (166x), chess (110x), think (101x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., So, Tracy, I know that you don..., But, was this is the show Quee...
Sound Patterns62%
64 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases4%
you know what, i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging7%
apparently, probably, could
Passive Voice5%
was even, are used, is treated
Abstract Nouns12%
investment, recommendation, regularity
Subordination6%
because, while, whereas
Sentence Length42%
Avg: 15.5 words/sentence
Word Complexity43%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style18%
842 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
literally, completely, secondly
Description
We're in a rare moment where chess is popular in the United States. There are two big factors driving it. One is the smash hit Netflix show "The Queen's Gambit." The other is the rise of Twitch streaming, as gamers play online for thousands of fans. On this episode, we speak with Hikaru Nakamura, a popular chess streamer, about the economics of this new environment for chess. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.