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A fact from Online chess appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 January 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that more than 41 million hours of online chess have been watched on Twitch during the COVID-19 pandemic?
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... that online chess has experienced a surge of growth during the COVID-19 pandemic? Source: "The pandemic has... done wonders for one game, maybe the last one you'd ever guess: chess." [1]
ALT1:... that more than 41 million hours of online chess were watched on Twitch during the COVID-19 pandemic? Source: "From March through August, people watched 41.2 million hours of chess on Twitch" [2]
New, long enough, no copyvio issues. Hook in article and followed by inline citation to several citations with hook fact. hook is interesting, QPQ provided. No image. Thank you, interesting piece. Just one disambiguation link to ?fix.Whispyhistory (talk) 04:58, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
New, long enough, no copyvio issues. Hook in article and followed by inline citation to several citations with hook fact. hook is interesting, QPQ provided. No image. Thank you, interesting piece. Just one disambiguation link to ?fix.Whispyhistory (talk) 04:58, 12 January 2021 (UTC)