Growth
Subscribers and views as FameX records them
Subscribers
Daily snapshots stored by FameX
Monetization
YouTube Partner Program: 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 long-form watch hours in 12 months
Estimated from public YouTube data, not confirmed by YouTube. Watch hours estimated from lifetime views per year and recent uploads × typical watch time.
The formula
Niche, persona, format and what makes it work
chess
Chess
The $[N] [X] That [benefit] Forever
Why it's faceless
Animation · confirmed · 100% confidence
- 1The channel consistently uses animated chess pieces and scenarios in its thumbnails and videos. The channel avatar is a stylized chess king, and the banner features cartoonish chess-related characters. There is no indication of a real person presenting on camera.
Videos
9:00
3.3×10:22
9:21
0:28
8:16
12:17
3.1×9:29
16:23
14:53
11:14
2.3×10:03
23:56
16:22
20:44
31:06
46:24
53:10
8:26
9:52
18:20How it makes money
Ad revenue estimate, products and where the channel sends viewers
How we estimated ad revenue
Last 30 days
See every step: niche RPM, audience and length adjustments, long-form and Shorts.
What they sell
No product found yet.
Channels like iwantcheckmate
Matched on what they publish, not just keywords. Inactive channels are left out.
Chess
Gaming
Gaming
gaming guides
mobile gaming walkthroughs
Gaming
Gaming
Mobile Gaming Guides and Challenges
Data from YouTube via YouTube API Services, refreshed hourly. Analysis by FameX — not YouTube data. Revenue is an estimate from niche RPM ranges.
About iwantcheckmate
Is iwantcheckmate a faceless channel?
Yes. FameX classifies iwantcheckmate as a animation channel (confirmed, 100% confidence). The channel consistently uses animated chess pieces and scenarios in its thumbnails and videos. The channel avatar is a stylized chess king, and the banner features cartoonish chess-related characters. There is no indication of a real person presenting on camera.
Is iwantcheckmate monetized?
Probably. With 218,000 subscribers and an estimated 4,118,729 watch hours in the last 12 months, iwantcheckmate appears to meet the YouTube Partner Program thresholds (1,000 subscribers and 4,000 long-form watch hours in 12 months). This is a FameX estimate, not confirmed by YouTube.
How much does iwantcheckmate make?
FameX estimates iwantcheckmate earns about $80,526–$214,737 a month from YouTube ads, based on 27.3M views in 30 days and a typical RPM for the other niche. Sponsorships, memberships and product sales are not included.
How fast is iwantcheckmate growing?
In the last 1 days, iwantcheckmate gained 2,000 subscribers and got 1,515,398 channel views. It has 218,000 subscribers and 94,709,588 total views.
What kind of videos does iwantcheckmate post?
Iwantcheckmate makes chess; it uploads about 4.2 videos a week; typical videos run 12 minutes.
Data updated 22 Oct 2026. Subscriber and view counts come from the YouTube Data API; verdicts, monetization and revenue are FameX estimates. How FameX works · More other channels