Prepare the arena...
Bruce Buffer: in the red corner weighing in at 123 pounds with a reach of 45 inches we have SUSAN POLGAR. In the blue corner weighing in at 45 pounds with a reach of 10 inches we have ANATOLY KARPOV.
it's TIMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Is there ANY format that a TV executive would be attracted by. It's all about freaky, wacky reality TV man. Manhunt, the kardashians, Joe Schmo, fear factor. All this chess stuff...to a TV guy that's a blank screen.
The only TV thing that I could see as being at all marketable to sponsors would be internet streamed TV rather like the deathmatches here.
so people can enjoy the games the same way you're watching a tennis match?
what about blitz - bullet direct elimination games between the first eight or sixteen played one after the other in sequence?