Channel
@ChessTalkOfficial
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542subscribers
-11 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001302177772 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @ChessTalkOfficial |
| Created | 20 January 2018 — measured — dated from the channel’s first post |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/ChessTalkOfficial |
Gaming — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 84% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2026, 10:59 | 542 | -2 |
| 1 Oct 2026, 17:21 | 544 | -3 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 21:18 | 547 | -1 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 06:00 | 548 | -2 |
| 22 Aug 2026, 03:46 | 550 | -2 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 18:45 | 552 | -1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 03:36 | 553 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 20:35 | 553 | first reading |
5 posts held, back to 20 January 2018 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 5 posts for this entry, the most recent from 27 September 2022. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
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Channel created
Showing the 5 most recent of 5 posts we hold for @ChessTalkOfficial. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Chess Talk” (@ChessTalkOfficial), 542 subscribers as measured 12 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/ChessTalkOfficial.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.