akaNemsko
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Qiyu Zhou, known as Nemo Zhou and akaNemsko, is a Canadian chess player and Twitch streamer who won the girls' under-14 World Youth Chess Championship in 2014.[1][2] She also won the Canadian women's championship in 2016.[3] FIDE awarded her the FIDE Master title in 2016 and the Woman Grandmaster title in 2017.[4]
Born in Jingzhou, China, she grew up in Finland and won its women's chess championship in 2010. She represented Canada at the Women's Chess Olympiads in 2014, 2016 and 2018.[1]
Streaming and teaching
Zhou began streaming with Alexandra and Andrea Botez in March 2020, then launched her own akaNemsko broadcasts in June.[1] She joined Counter Logic Gaming in August 2020 as its first chess player.[1][5] She has collaborated with Hikaru Nakamura and Levy Rozman.[1]
By May 2020, she had recorded two instructional DVDs for ChessBase on tactics and openings.[6] She took leave from the University of Toronto in January 2021 to focus on streaming full-time.[1]
Poker
Zhou won the inaugural Celebrity Poker Tour Invitational in August 2023. She finished runner-up to Vegas Matt at the tour's Invitational IV in 2024.[7]
Personal information
General information
- Language
- EN
- On Twitch since
- 6 November 2017
- Twitch followers
- 382,084
- Channel age
- 9y 3d
- Twitch data updated
- Category
- Just Chatting
- Teams
- Chess.com
Sources
- "Nemo Zhou on en Wikipedia".
- "WYCC 2014: The winners and the stories".
- "Meet the young Canadians helping online chess become a pandemic pastime | CBC News".
- "Zhou, Qiyu FIDE Profile".
- "In the Media: Qiyu Zhou – Arts & Science’s online chess star".
- "Your chess tutor with a double major in Economics and Statistics!".
- "CPT Live Poker | Celebrity Poker Tour".
- "Nemo Zhou on ru Wikipedia".
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