Twitch Chess Streams and their Payouts

[Neil Frarey]

Twitch hack leaked GM Hikaru and other twitch streamers payout...

From August 2019 until October 2021...

GM Hikaru earned from twitch 773,831.12 (126)
chessbrah: $767,384.56 (129)
Chess: $499,677.45 (265)
GothamChess : $424,505.01 (344)
BotezLive: $416,813.43 (353)
whyyyyyyysoserious (IM Marc Esserman): $304,871.30 (537)
GMNaroditsky: $233,641.74 (741)
imrosen: $208,768.72 (874)
BlitzStream (NM Kevin Bordi): $175,377.69 (1059)
GMBenjaminFinegold: $157,955.88 (1202)
GrandmasterGauri (FM Gauri Shankar): $104,896.42 (1962)
Anna_Chess: $103,110.26 (1994)
akaNemsko (WGM Qiyu Zhou): $91,352.63 (2282)
lilekoridze: $57,674.22 (3841)
MKrikor: $55,031.18 (4038)
AnnaCramling: $52,207.07 (4265)
PhotoChess (WFM Maria Emelianova): $45,961.87 (4899) LefongHua: $33,834.82 (6856)
JohnBartholomew: $29,797.46 (7904)
AlessiaSanteramo: $27,229.47 (8641)
GMHansN: $24,480.05 (9608)
GMCanty (NM James Canty): $24,397.99 (9648)
GMHess: $23,670.83 (9937) (thanks to u/sirbruce)

It's worth reiterating that these totals represent just a fraction of what streamers earn. This includes twitch subs, prime subs, twitch ads and twitch bit donations. But does not include TTS donations, 3rd party revenues like merch, youtube revenue, and sponsorships are all unaccounted for here.


https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comme..._other_twitch/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/6/2...eam-competitor

https://clips.twitch.tv/ArbitraryDet...iWCIFMi0zjHBPk

[Hans Jung]

Finally some in the chess world are making good money. Big congratulations to Eric Hansen (my personal favorite) and his team.

Also congratulations to Qiyu Zhou and the Botez sisters!

Have I missed any other Canadians?

[John Upper]

Have I missed any other Canadians?

LeFong is there too.

[Neil Frarey]

Finally some in the chess world are making good money. Big congratulations to Eric Hansen (my personal favorite) and his team.

Also congratulations to Qiyu Zhou and the Botez sisters!

Have I missed any other Canadians?

Chessbrah GM Aman Hambleton

[David Ottosen]

This is illegally hacked personal information and should not be posted. I understand it's "out there". It doesn't make it less wrong.

[Neil Frarey]

GM Hikaru owns it & has fun with the twitch hack on his YT channel :)

https://youtu.be/VPEfDHfY6ys?t=42

Oct 8, 2021