Told you that Carlsen would do absolutely nothing to popularize chess.

Why not you just did, now don't act stupid, just because they show it in the entertainment field doesnt mean that every bodys gonna line up and play it.  Even though it's not dead, it doesnt have the appeal that other games do.  It has no action like most video games, takes concentrtion, study if you want to be good at it, and time to study moves that are made.  It's not even close to being in the top 100 games to play.  Video, pc games, android or phone games are being played more than most any others in the world.  Yes, it's a great game, just not popular as most chess players like to think it should be.   

You seem to believe I think Chess is the most popular game ever. I don't which you can tell by what I saying "Chess is doing fine". Meaning it isn't a dieing game.

Thanks everyone for the responses.

In response to Mersaphe:  Kasparov had a lot of media coverage well before this Deep Blue matches.

He was on American network TV quite regularly in the 1980's, before your time brah . . . he was on David Letterman and Johnny Carson pretty much regularly.

Not as regularly as Joan Embry from the San Diego Zoo though.

Sorry I said regularly three times in two sentences but I am a bit "under the weather" he he he he.

That's ok Johnny brah.

Oh yeah brah.

In response to those that will say, Carlsen was on The Report Colbert, yeah, I saw that segment . . .

How can you say that after the success of the app Play Magnus?

Can I just say that some trolls aren't doing enough to popularise trolling?

The kid could have 20 more year on his career and peeps already saying he'll do nothing. That's like saying when Kobe and Shaq were fighting that Kobe would never draw fans.

Why are chessplayers like Carlsen always asked about promoting chess but athletes like Blake Griffin, Peyton Manning, Richard Hamilton, Christiano Ronaldo and others aren't asked to promote their sport? It's like the former is being asked to do more than compete while the others aren't. 

Because they're not asked, they're expected too.

TitanCG wrote:

Why are chessplayers like Carlsen always asked about promoting chess but athletes like Blake Griffin, Peyton Manning, Richard Hamilton, Christiano Ronaldo and others aren't asked to promote their sport? It's like the former is being asked to do more than compete while the others aren't. 

I assumed they only did commercials for their sponsors.

Kasparov was/is always pretty busy promoting himself...

No, Joan was on there with all kinds of animals....  lol I remember that one little one peed on his head....lol

I think the USCF has the correct idea, just the wrong implementation.  They're heavily promoting scholastic chess but then they seem to stop caring when those kids grow up.  To attend chess events (especially FIDE rated ones) people must travel and at great expense.  This by far and away is the biggest turnoff for me at least. 

To popularize chess more at least start by serving those already playing and instead of (or better, in addition to) big expensive tournaments with $350 entry fees (on top of room, board, and gas) there would be more smaller tournaments that are accessible to more people.  Even better if they have FIDE oversight (as terrible as that organization is, even Andre Schulz in Chessbase magazine mentioned how ludicrously corrupt FIDE is.)

  To quote Schulz from Chessbase magazine #151:

“In the 2010 elections there was a dual attack by Karpov/Kasparov.  Some federations have taken up their position early on and openly supported the two of them in the candidature of Karpov, including a complaint against FIDE in the International Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne.  It concerned the formulation of the statues of FIDE and the legality of the candidature of Ilyumzhinov. This legal attack was so obviously violent that FIDE went over the top by spending a heap of money on lawyers and reports, amost (sic) a million Euros.  FIDE did win the case but remained stuck with the greater part of the costs which it had itself generated. “

He then went on to write about how the FIDE presidential board came out against the nations who filed the lawsuit, such as the USA, France, Germany, Switzerland, the Ukraine, Georgia, and the UK. 

Then he mentions how FIDE has an inappropriate balance of power, as for example four player federations have the same voting power as major federations such as Russia and England, and how mini-federations are abused to tip the scale in incumbents’’ favors.  Then mentions how major federations should get more involved in FIDE’s work.  

It is a well-known Vulcan proverb.