Media comments on chess

[Tim Spanton]

No, the quote is what they reckoned he said (I assume he was talking about Georgia Tech's Paul Johnson, but I wasn't certain of that so I did not include it)

[JustinHorton]

I'm not succeeding in tracing it.

[Tim Spanton]

Presumably it was said during the week when the TV play-caller and his colour guys get a chance to sit down face-to-face for private chats with the head coaches of the teams they will be covering on the coming Saturday

[Jonathan Bryant]

David Bailey:

“I was never that nterested n children. Until they can play chess.”

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... SApp_Other

[JustinHorton]

Presumably it was said during the week when the TV play-caller and his colour guys get a chance to sit down face-to-face for private chats with the head coaches of the teams they will be covering on the coming Saturday

If it was said during the week we ought to be able to find it on news media by now, no?

[Tim Spanton]

No, not if, as I suggested, it was in a private chat.
I don't actually know that was the case, but that was the implication during the telecast (which has just finished BTW)

[JustinHorton]

Interview with Merenzon in which - no, you'll never guess - he comes up with a remarkable figure.

[JustinHorton]

Andrew McGettigan on various match-related issues.

More Andrew McGettigan

[Chris Rice]

Malcolm Pein playing chess on Sky News. It seems Sky News will be there for the start of the tiebreaks at 3pm.

[Mick Norris]

Radio 5 live will have something about the WC match (I caught the word armageddon) after 3 pm this afternoon

[Christopher Kreuzer]

BBC has an article on the tie-breaks:

Chess world championship heads towards Armageddon showdown

[Roger de Coverly]

From
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ty-contest

Web chess, it transpires, is Test Match Special for people who find cricket too fast-paced

[Ian Thompson]

The World Championship got a mention on the BBC 1 Breakfast programme this morning at about 7:30 am with a brief clip of a game.

The report wasn't particularly accurate though - they said the whole of today's event was called Armageddon chess and that the winner would receive €1 million. Two of the three presenters said chess wasn't for them and one said they thought Caruana had fallen asleep. They did, though, acknowledge that a lot of people did find chess interesting.

[Roger de Coverly]

The World Championship got a mention on the BBC 1 Breakfast programme this morning at about 7:30 am with a brief clip of a game.

It was on the BBC News a few minutes ago with video of the final moves of the third rapid play game.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Do you mean on the TV news? The BBC News website has an article but no video:

Norwegian Magnus Carlsen retains World Chess Championship title