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Originally Posted by venced0r
Agreed. But I gotta say, I find these pressconferences hard to watch in general, which is understandable after such long and mentally demanding games. Still I find that media treatment is something that chess players could improve upon, especially someone like Magnus after being on top all these years
Meh I think it's been fine, both players understand the importance to promote the game even if some of the questions are poor in substance. That's just how it goes in this era of online media... I would say I don't like how much they laugh at Magnus' responses. At least try to act professional no matter how charming/honest he can be when he wants to.
They are both guaranteed quite a bit of money even before all their sponsorships and support teams, I'm sure it's part of what you sign up for.
Magnus did have an interesting answer in the pressor yesterday, he said that maybe 12 games wasn't enough due to each game having more importance and that maybe they should go to 16-18 in the next WCC thoughts? I actually think 12 is perfect and it's that these guys are so evenly matched in classical is why we are on this draw streak.