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The dark side of India’s gaming boom

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BENGALURU : In the middle of 2019, a six-month-old Indian startup hosted the largest chess tournament the country had ever seen.

Over 300,000 players registered, and over 12 hours, 1.2 million chess games were played. That’s 17,000 chess games concluded every minute.

Mobile Premier League (MPL), the real-money gaming service that hosted the tournament, spent months ensuring their servers could handle this volume of traffic.

They hired Viswanathan Anand as brand ambassador to promote the tournament and promised the winner a prize money of ₹5 lakh.

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