Chess: The women content creators bringing the ancient game into the digital age.

During Covid, Nemo Zhou was "losing [her] mind" locked down at home and thought it would be nice to make some money.

So she started streaming chess - and now it's turned into a career.

A woman grandmaster - the highest female-only chess title - Zhou was pursuing a degree in economics and mathematics at the University of Toronto at the time.

She launched her own stream in 2020, after first making guest appearances on a friend's channel, and the timing was impeccable.

A few months later, the Netflix show The Queen's Gambit was released. Along with the pandemic, it led to a chess boom.