He first blew up on TikTok, then Youtube, and while he is not a rated player, he’s held his own against a number of grandmaster and international master-level players ( Nakamura speculated that Enigma would be rated a very respectable 2400). He told earlier this year that he quit his day job in September 2021 to focus on being a masked chess guy, which has really worked out for him. Enigma started playing blitz games in the park in Madrid, offering 100 Euros to anyone who could beat him, and he’s been posting videos of himself doing so (against, say, someone dressed up as Beth Harmon from The Queen’s Gambit) since early 2021. Rey Enigma is a Spanish chess player who is named as such because he is A) extremely good at playing chess, skilled enough that calling himself the Spanish word for “king” isn’t an egregious overreach, and, B) a mysterious guy who wears a full-body checkered spandex suit whenever he appears in public. As the community grew, it fostered some classic streamer drama and has now produced a few genuine oddities, which brings us to Rey Enigma, whose deal I will now explain to you. 11, became such a popular streamer that FIDE leadership allowed him to play in the ultra-prestigious Candidates Tournament despite not having playing in a classical chess tournament since 2019.
Hikaru Nakamura, former prodigy and current world No.
The game’s popularity exploded on Twitch and Youtube throughout 2020, and a number of unlikely microcelebrities were born. During the most intense phases of pandemic-induced Inside Time, millions of bored people turned to chess.
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