24 Nov 18
This 2018 world chess championship match has had a notable lack of controversies, organizational mishaps, petty squabbling, accusations of cheating, and other distractions that have marred other world championship events going back decades. The same can be said for the Olympic Games of London in 2012. The world should take notice of this. The Brit's do it better! 🙂
25 Nov 18
But the lack of any drama off the board has made this match a bit stale.
The game needs electronic chairs, yoghurt, defectors and players with
weak bladders to get the media hyped up and the game onto the front pages.
When I was in London and chatting to punters in the net café, not
one of them knew the match was taking place and I was 300-400
yards away from the venue!
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25 Nov 18
@mchill saidIt's true, if there's one thing the English are good at it's organising an event. In politics they can't organise a stag do in a brewery (let alone a graceful departure), their revolutions are notoriously ramshackle (they needed a Dutch king to get one right),, but if there's something oleasant to be got up, the English are who you go to.
This 2018 world chess championship match has had a notable lack of controversies, organizational mishaps, petty squabbling, accusations of cheating, and other distractions that have marred other world championship events going back decades. The same can be said for the Olympic Games of London in 2012. The world should take notice of this. The Brit's do it better! 🙂
25 Nov 18
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@greenpawn34 saidBut the lack of any drama off the board has made this match a bit stale. The game needs electronic chairs, yoghurt, defectors and players with weak bladders to get the media hyped up and the game onto the front pages.
But the lack of any drama off the board has made this match a bit stale.
The game needs electronic chairs, yoghurt, defectors and players with
weak bladders to get the media hyped up and the game onto the front pages.
When I was in London and chatting to punters in the net café, not
one of them knew the match was taking place and I was 300-400
yards away from the venue!
I get it. You'd like to see wins on both sides, and some spicy sub plots to follow, but this is still an improvement over Fischer's silly antics in Iceland, Korchnoi's paranoia over some idiot staring at him, and The first Karpov - Kasparov match featuring lots of semi - legal maneuverings behind the scenes. I'm happy with some high quality chess (even if they are draws) and less melodrama.