The sources follow the usual pattern.
Chess.com dominates, followed by six sources with two or more stories each, mostly chess sites, leaving 36 sources with a single story. CNN, already seen in
Speculative Yahoos
(June 2021), is arguably the most mainstream of the multi-story sources. Two of its three stories were the sort of feature story that might pop up on any source in a random month:-
- 2021-10-01: How do you become a chess grandmaster? Magnus Carlsen is here to tell you (cnn.com)
- 2021-10-04: Tani Adewumi: How chess changed the fortunes of 11-year-old prodigy and his family (ditto)
The third CNN story was recent news related to a high-level World Championship qualifying event:-
- 2021-10-23: Chess players withdraw from Grand Swiss amid Latvia Covid-19 lockdown (ditto)
Undoubtedly the story of the month, it was echoed in corresponding stories from chess news sites, including Chess.com's Peter Doggers:-
- 2021-10-22: FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss Proceeds With Exemption As Latvia Locks Down (chess.com)
Hiding among all of the other sources was a living, breathing Yahoo:-
- 2021-10-21: Asian Americans dominate 2021 US Chess Championships, Wesley So joins Bobby Fischer in successive-win club (yahoo.com) • 'The 2021 U.S. Chess Championship winners are Asian Americans Grandmaster Wesley So and International Master Carissa Yip.'
The story was originally from Nextshark.com. The site's About NextShark page says,
NextShark is a leading source covering Asian and Asian American news including business, culture, entertainment, politics, tech and lifestyle.
Following the story about the recent U.S. championships were links to four other stories from Nextshark.com, all about violence against Asian-Americans in different settings. Will chess tournaments become the next target?
[Yahoos (mainstream news stories about chess) are derived from Google News top-100 (or so) stories from the past month.]
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