'I'd love players to be mobbed like IPL cricketers': The push to make esports mainstream

At the Esports World Cup successful Paris, chess has emerged arsenic an improbable trial of however acold esports tin stretch. Mike McCabe explains wherefore the game's centuries-old entreaty fits alongside integer titles, what Paris has proved astir the EWC's quality to travel, and wherefore its aboriginal whitethorn beryllium connected creating players with the designation of IPL stars. His imaginativeness points to a broader displacement successful however esports defines games, audiences and sporting fame.