Celebrity Chess

Jynxzi, a Twitch streamer and student of IM Levy Rozman, won the $100,000 PogChamps 6 7 tournament on April 10 by sweeping top seed ohnePixel in the final. The 24-year-old went undefeated through 13 straight games, drawing over 200,000 concurrent viewers to the broadcast. All eight entrants started with Chess.com blitz ratings under 700.