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Best time to stream Chess
When do Chess viewers outnumber Chess streamers? The heatmap below compares hourly viewer demand with live-channel competition — the brighter a cell glows, the better your odds of getting discovered. Gold is prime time; dark violet means you'd be streaming into the void.
Top windows this month
- #1Friday 18:00~12.4K viewers/channel
- #2Friday 15:00~10.7K viewers/channel
- #3Friday 14:00~10.6K viewers/channel
Times shown in UTC.
Weekly opportunity heatmap
The best opportunity window is Friday 18:00 (UTC) — ~12.4K viewers spread across ~1 live channel.
viewers per live channel — the brighter the glow, the better your shot at getting discovered
Friday 18:00–19:00~12.4K viewers/channel~12.4K viewers~1 live channels2 observed days· best window — tap any cell for details
How long do Chess streams take to peak?
Median concurrent viewers by hour into the stream across tracked Chess channels — viewership typically peaks in hour 5. Streams shorter than that often end before their audience arrives.
How this is measured
Based on hourly concurrent-viewer samples of 6 tracked Chess channels on Twitch over the last 28 days (112 samples). Cells observed on fewer than 2 distinct days show as “no data” — a sampling gap is not the same as an empty timeslot. Numbers describe the channels we track, not all of Twitch, and skew toward established streamers.
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