The power of the hive mind shouldn t be a surprise to anyone by now, but for some reason I assumed chess was an exception. When the creators of Pure Chess [official site] decided to promote their new game by pitting the chat stream of Twitch against British grandmaster Simon Williams, I shrugged and thought: well it s nice that they have graduated from Dark Souls and Pokemon – assuming that they would be soundly trounced. The chess champion went on to win the first two games. But during the third, Twitch struck back and won.