5/16/2012 – Is the Championship in Moscow, without a Russian player, an audience success? Can chess ever be that? Yes it can, says chief organiser Ilya Levitov, who has a 21st Century formula to bring chess to a wide audience – and make events pay for themselves. Compelling. We also get a tour of chess sets and pictures in the Tretyakov Museum. Must-watch interview by Europe Echecs.
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The World Chess Championship 2012 is being staged in the Tretyakov Gallery
in Moscow, between the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and
the winner of the Candidates tournament Boris Gelfand of Israel. The match is
over twelve games and lasts from May 11 to 30. The prize fund is US $2.55 million,
the winner getting $1.53 million (60%), the loser $1,02 million (40%).
The
following interview was conducted by GM Robert Fontaine and his video producer
Gérard Demuydt for the French chess magazine Europe
Echecs. Ilya Levitov is the head of the Management Board of the Russian
Chess Federation, and more recently a vice-president of FIDE. He is a pioneer
of modernising chess coverage in the media and on the Internet, as we showed
in this earlier
report.
Very informative interview with the main organiser of the World Championship
in Moscow: Ilya Levitov
Ilya tells us that the HD live stream that the organisers are broadcasting
in two languages is a great success. The coverage of the opening ceremony drew
over 100,000 viewers. On television it was millions – on the first Russian
channel around fifty million. The Internet transmission with multiple webcams
is around 10-15% of the total cost of normal events, e.g. the Tal Memorial.
In the case of the World Championship the percentage is much lower because of
the big prize fund. But it is very important. "The first tournament I did
in Moscow – the Tal Memorial in 2005 or 2006 – had two spectators
and two journalists, and that was it," he says. "The tournament was
organised for the grandmasters and their well-being." He also describes
how the organisers are now inserting ads of the main sponsors in their video
broadcasts."
Our humble opinion: this man is showing the rest of the chess world how the
game can move into the 21st century, how it can provide real and tangible returns
for the money the sponsors are expected to pour into the game. Incidentally
you should not miss the second part of the interview, where Levitov speaks of
the special problems that chess faces as a spectator sport. Interestingly he
thinks – just like the
provocative Steve Giddins – that the match is too short. "It
should be sixteen games, maybe even twenty, because they have to find out what's
going on. It is interesting to watch for a few weeks how things are progressing,
how the players are changing, how the positions and the opening preferences
are changing."
Impressions of the Art Museum, with portraits of World Champions and chess
sets (Russian, two minutes)
Photo gallery by Anastasya Karlovich
Famous chess pictures and pieces in the Tretyakov Museum in Moscow
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's economic aide Arkady Dvorkovich is chairman
of the Russian Chess Federation. In the picture above you may recognise the
portrait of the famous chess player in the background.
A game on a giant chessboard. But who is playing against GM Ian Rogers (background)?
The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the
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