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chess plays well on the internet imo. chessvideos.tv chess.fm watching live relays on fics/icc has all been major parts of my routine at one time or another. but tv seems like an awful format. i wasn't too impressed with the kramink-deep fritz match that was televised on espn a couple years back. i think maurice ashley and yasser seirawan did the commentary (among others). i don't think blitz would improve things much either. i just can see myself watching a 30 or 60 minute program of all blitz chess where i can't replay moves/analyze independently easily and i have to deal with commercial breaks.

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08-19-2010 , 11:22 AM

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RoundTower

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chess has always done better on TV than could really have been expected I thought, even though it has rarely been tried. For example the Channel 4 coverage of the Kasparov-Short match had a lot of people interested at the time.

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08-19-2010 , 02:21 PM

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fezjones

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hard to pitch a show when chess is almost at an alltime low in interest
http://www.google.com/trends?q=chess

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08-20-2010 , 04:32 PM

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jontsef

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If this happened Carlsen would become a billionaire

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08-20-2010 , 04:49 PM

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jontsef

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Found this relevant episode of chess now http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=...52/YZiNybUVs2o
Good discussion with Aziz Ansari about how to make chess as popular as poker.

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