no. just no.
Who would you pay to see play against each other?
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Feb 5, 2015
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Maybe chess.com can host such an event and give a percentage of the proceeds to charity.
I'd pay to see such a tourney, for a charitable cause. I don't know who yet.
As much as i love the game. Watching it on TV is like watching paint dry.
Feb 5, 2015
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Feufollet wrote:
We both know that's not gonna happen...
Maybe chess.com can host such an event and give a percentage of the proceeds to charity.
I'd pay to see such a tourney, for a charitable cause. I don't know who yet.
Feb 5, 2015
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I definitely would pay to see a live game online between the people cited above , Robert.
Feb 5, 2015
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Nekhemevich wrote:
Feufollet wrote:
Maybe chess.com can host such an event and give a percentage of the proceeds to charity.
I'd pay to see such a tourney, for a charitable cause. I don't know who yet.
We both know that's not gonna happen...
Maybe, maybe not. But how many times have I had a vision or idea, but did not have the finance or the technical know-how to realize it...and 3 years later, I'm seeing it on commercials and it's the next coolest thing or trend...
Feb 5, 2015
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I_Am_Second wrote:
As much as i love the game. Watching it on TV is like watching paint dry.
When I was a kid, I'd bike to the park to watch seniors play chess. I don't own a TV, but I definitely would watch - not just any games, but games between players I'd like to see...
Feb 5, 2015
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Feufollet wrote:
Good point. I was just remarking on chess and charity. According to my thread on creating a charity tournament it seems that the majority of people see it as an improbable success, and that it wouldn't really make any difference. I disagree, and feel if many people did just a little it would. I would not, however, believe that chess.com would host anything that wasn't for profit.
Nekhemevich wrote:
Feufollet wrote:
Maybe chess.com can host such an event and give a percentage of the proceeds to charity.
I'd pay to see such a tourney, for a charitable cause. I don't know who yet.
We both know that's not gonna happen...
Maybe, maybe not. But how many times have I had a vision or idea, but did not have the finance or the technical know-how to realize it...and 3 years later, I'm seeing it on commercials and it's the next coolest thing or trend...
Feb 5, 2015
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#11
You're right, I don't think chess.com or any venues would do it purely for charitable reasons...a thing would likely be undertaken more if it is a win-win-win for all parties involved.
But boy, what I wouldn't give to see a live game between a female GM and a male GM.
This site is full of threads about the female's ability vs. the male's ability...
Now, I'm downright curious to see it play out live ...
I wouldn't pay to see any living GM's playing against each other (no disrespect meant to them).
Seeing the greats of the past playing against each other (the fly in the ointment of them being dead aside) might be worth paying for though...
P.S. Chess is more important to me than Atomic Chess... but I think that the latter would make for better TV.
Feufollet wrote:
I_Am_Second wrote:
As much as i love the game. Watching it on TV is like watching paint dry.
When I was a kid, I'd bike to the park to watch seniors play chess. I don't own a TV, but I definitely would watch - not just any games, but games between players I'd like to see...
I enjoy playing the game, I enjoy watching the GM's, and IM's at tournaments play. But on TV? cant do it...
Feb 5, 2015
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oh, I wouldn't watch it on TV...I'd watch it online, with GM commentators in a side chat or something....it would be so cool.
Plus, the first and last time I was in a state high school tournament 35 years ago there wasn't a single girl there...let alone a girl with a GM level.
I'm curious as hell.
Feufollet wrote:
oh, I wouldn't watch it on TV...I'd watch it online, with a GM commentators in a side chat or something....it would be so cool.
Plus, the first and last time I was in a state high school tournament 35 years ago there wasn't a single girl there...let alone a girl with a GM level.
I'm curious as hell.
Now I would watch a Jennifer Shahade vs. Alisa Melekhina match
No one today who would really excite me. I may be biased, having just published on Amazon, Knight to King 4: The Fischer-Kasparov Match. The book is clearly fiction, but I would have paid good money to see those two play. Best we can do is dream about the possibilities and enjoy the conjecture as my book tries to do. If you get the book, let me know what you think and who was the better player; reviews so far have been very good. By the way,as to those who have stated watching chess on TV is too boring, I can assure you Fischer-Spassky on PBS in 1972, even with the principals in a back room untelevised and with the primitive state of the art, was compelling TV.
Feb 5, 2015
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Murgen wrote:
I wouldn't pay to see any living GM's playing against each other (no disrespect meant to them).
Seeing the greats of the past playing against each other (the fly in the ointment of them being dead aside) might be worth paying for though...
P.S. Chess is more important to me than Atomic Chess... but I think that the latter would make for better TV.
What is Atomic Chess?
For legends from the past. I'd pay to see 14 any of those championship games he played.
The queen of England vs. Hitler.
I'd pay to see that/
Feb 5, 2015
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KTZ1 wrote:
No one today who would really excite me. I may be biased, having just published on Amazon, Knight to King 4: The Fischer-Kasparov Match. The book is clearly fiction, but I would have paid good money to see those two play. Best we can do is dream about the possibilities and enjoy the conjecture as my book tries to do. If you get the book, let me know what you think and who was the better player; reviews so far have been very good. By the way,as to those who have stated watching chess on TV is too boring, I can assure you Fischer-Spassky on PBS in 1972, even with the principals in a back room untelevised and with the primitive state of the art, was compelling TV.
I don't really follow the goings on and the who's who of the international chess community...I guess it would probably take such a tourney as I described to get me excited to follow and get to know some of these names - Magnus Carlson and others....see, Carlson is the only name I can cite...I don't even know if Kasparov or Karpov still play or are even alive.
If there were to be a live televised online game between a male GM and a female GM, who would you like to see playing? And would you be willing to pay to watch it? $25 for a 3-game tourney? $15, $10?