One of the most unusual Chess match was held in Indonesia.

The friendly match was live streamed on the internet, and attracted a record-number of more than one million concurrent viewers. This number is about 10 times of the most-watched live-streamed chess events in history, such as the classical world championship and Pogchamps.

The reason the match caught so much attention, was because it was played between Irene Sukandar, an Indonesian International Master of chess, and Dadang Subur (nicknamed "Dewa_Kipas"), an amateur player who had been accused of cheating in early March by Levy Rozman.

Another reason for the shattering record, was because the match was organized by Deddy Corbuzier, an Indonesian actor, television presenter, and YouTuber, who runs the popular #CloseTheDoor podcast on YouTube with more than 13.8 million subscribers.

The games were played at Corbuzier's studio in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.

The stream lasted about an hour and an a half.

It all began in early March, when Rozman (GothamChess) played a 10-minute game on Chess.com, an online chess platform and community, since 2017.

Rozman who is also a YouTuber and a Twitch streamer, was the recipient of titles, like the "National Master" in 2011, "FIDE Master" in 2016, and "International Master" in 2018.

But that day in March, he was defeated by a Chess.com newbie from Indonesia.

The person, Dadang Subur, defeated Rozman the GothamChess in under five minutes.

While winning or losing is nothing serious in Chess.com, Rozman's lost to Dadang apparently caused a stir on the internet, particularly on social media networks.

At first, the community and many others were suspicious, considering that Dewa_Kipas was only days old at Chess.com, but had gained more than 800 ELO points. More suspicion happened to be seen when Dadang Subur regularly spent 10 seconds making moves, even when his choice was obvious. Such time usage often reveals that Dadang may have been using an external assistance to aid him with the game, such as using a chess bot engine.

Rozman became utterly suspicious when he checked Dadang's account, and saw that in almost all of his wins, Dadang had an accuracy of over 90%.

Rozman concluded that Dadang was a cheater, and reported him to Chess.com, which resulted in Dadang being banned from the platform for violating the Fair Play policy.

Shortly after, Dadang's son, Ali Akbar, started protesting.

And later, bullies from both Dadang's side and Rozman's were face to face on Twitter, Chess.com and some other places.

The bullying was so intense that Rozman had to even put his social media accounts on private, and took a short hiatus from streaming.

"To be honest, I don't blame them," said Rozman in Corbuzier's podcast on March 17. "When I look at everything that happened from the first post on Facebook until now, the reason I think a lot of people saw the story is because of the way the news showed it. They showed that first story, which was not fully accurate, and they just pushed it everywhere."

It was at this point that Irene Sukandar, an Indonesian chess grandmaster, was suggested by Corbuzier to play a game with Dadang.

He suggested that she should challenge Dadang. And when Dadang accepted her challenge, Sukandar was all in.

"Deddy kind of cornered me in a way that I couldn't say no," said Sukandar with a smile.

It should be noted that the match had been suggested not only by many user of the web, but also by the Indonesian Chess Federation and the General Secretary of Ministry Youth and Sport.

Dadang's fans hoped that the match would determine whether he is actually a strong chess player worthy to beat an international master, or even earn a master title himself.

The match was sponsored by the Indonesian technology and e-commerce company Tokopedia, providing the equivalent of $10,500. That amount of money was then doubled by Indra Kesuma, an Indonesian businessman and YouTuber.

But things didn't turn out like what some people have expected.

In the three match games against Irene Sukandar, Dadang lost in all of them.

In other words, Dadang could not perform his high-level play as he had shown online, went he was up against Rozman.

For some moves for example, he showed weaknesses when he left his pieces undefended for his opponent to capture, a very common and classic amateur mistake.

Chess.com that analyzed the games, estimated that Dadang's ELO should be around 1,127, a far cry from his ELO on its platform, which far exceeded 2,000, a rating that is worthy for a master's title.

As quoted by Chess.com on its own web page, its COO Danny Rensch said that @Dewa_Kipas account was an "absolute, absolute certain case" of cheating.

And Rozman would was asked by Corbuzier, couldn't agree more. He said that he is "100% sure" that Dadang cheated against him.

"I have to agree with Chess.com. What can I say?"

This kind of match was extremely rare. Chess normally draws very small crowds. And when online, chess still isn't at the the sporting stage. But this time it was different.

Following this, the interest in chess from people in Indonesia has increased tremendously.

Chess.com said that its platform experienced about 40 times the normal number of registrations from Indonesia in only a few hours after the game was live streamed.

Rozman, who expects things to go back to normal, said about his plans to organize a charity stream with Indonesian chess players, and has also expressed his joy about the high interest in chess from viewers from Indonesia, which should in turn lead to a higher interest in chess from more people in Indonesia,

As for Sukandar, when she was asked whether she believes Dadang could have legitimately beaten Rozman, she said that she "would highly doubt it unless there were special circumstances going on that we don't know about."

"For example, Levy was streaming and I'm a streamer myself lately, and I know how hard it is for myself to actually focus on the game while we are streaming and talking and interacting in the chat. But if they'd play a few games, my money would still be on Levy."

But still, she is seeing this positively, saying that sponsorship for chess should at least increase when before, chess was having a hard time in gaining traction in Indonesia.

"They see that chess can actually attract so much attention. Yesterday was a historic day for viewers, for all those who care about it."

"The point is that no one is harmed, but what I emphasize in this case is that we must know the truth," the two-time Asian women’s champion said in the podcast. "That is it. We must know the truth. I agree with peace, but the truth is what we must fight for."