2016 Candidates Moscow 10-29 March

[Mick Norris]

TWIC round 1 report

chess.com report

Do we know which sites had live coverage of the moves?

[Roger de Coverly]

Do we know which sites had live coverage of the moves?

The Norwegian TV site nrk.no ran smoothly from the start.

chess24 and chessbomb were late getting under way, possibly not unconnected with the problems at the official site.

chessdom didn't have anything and neither did chessbase, notwithstanding their various disputes with Danailov and the Bulgarians.

[Carl Hibbard]

My mother could set it up properly if you have that sort of cash and AWS can deal with the load so to blame an attack is poor.

[Jonathan Bryant]

There’s an extraordinary report on chess.com

https://www.chess.com/news/anand-beats- ... paign=news


While Agon threatening some chess website owners with 10 years imprisonment, their own official commentators were using chessbomb to find out the moves of the games because the Agon website wasn’t working.

[JustinHorton]

Peter Doggers writes:

The actual game page lacked the move list (let alone the time spent on the moves), it lacked a proper engine (sometimes the evaluation bar, apparently not patented by Chess24, showed the advantage for the wrong player) and several times during the day the overview page (with all four boards visible) wasn't updating the moves

You absolutely can't discuss an ongoing chess game properly without a move list. It's farcical.

[Ray Sayers]

There’s an extraordinary report on chess.com

https://www.chess.com/news/anand-beats- ... paign=news


While Agon threatening some chess website owners with 10 years imprisonment, their own official commentators were using chessbomb to find out the moves of the games because the Agon website wasn’t working.

It's absolutely unbelievable that the official commentators had to look at Chessbomb to find the moves being played! And then double that stupidity to try to ban Chessbomb from publishing the moves! What the hell are the commentators supposed to do then? If they can commentate on a game without knowing the moves they deserve a medal.

[Mick Norris]

Round 2

Svidler - Topalov
Aronian - Anand
Caruana - Giri
Karjakin - Nakamura

[JustinHorton]

Chessbomb and Chess24 both running normally today as far as I can see. Any others?

[Carl Hibbard]

Chessbomb and Chess24 both running normally today as far as I can see. Any others?

Even the main site seems fine although the commentary is a little dull.

[JustinHorton]

Even the main site seems fine

I'd forgotten about them.

[MJMcCready]

Topalov looks like he is beginning to struggle again.

[NickFaulks]

ICC running, Yermo just said

"maybe Trent was hired for his good looks, but not for his chess skills"

[Angus French]

According to Tarjei Svensen:
"Agon announcing legal action against Chess24, Internet Chess Club, http://Chessgames.com and Chessbomb for broadcasting Candidate games."

[MJMcCready]

What a joke.

[Mick Norris]

Even the main site seems fine

I'd forgotten about them.