I tracked the number of unique logins to this blog between 10am-11am (NY time) for this game. My report shows just a few short of 16,500 people!!
That is fantastic! I realize that it is afternoon time for our European friends but it is only 7am-8am on the West Coast of the United States. It proves to me that we have a lot of chess fanatics out there and people like the excitement of this match!
I will be back to do LIVE commentary here tomorrow at 7am (NY time) and I will post my full analysis after the game. Hope you all enjoyed it today!
Don’t forget that I do update this blog 5-6 times daily so come back to check out new stuff. There will be at least 1 new puzzle each day along with chess tips, advices and other fun and cool chess news.
Thanks again for your wonderful support!
“I will be back to do LIVE commentary here tomorrow at 7am (NY time)”
So please go to bed early for your beauty sleep 😉 And thanks again for your fast comments!
Thank you for the good work, Susan!The clear exposition of your analysis is so much better than the dry analysis I ususally read.
… and thanks a lot for offering a chess web site like your’s to all fans !
in the meantime your blog substituted my morning newspaper (i’m from germany …) with a try to solve the daily chess puzzle ( “the milk in my coffee” …)
susan-polgar’s – chess – blog is the most stunning chess site around – for sure!
THANKS for it!
not a “fan” but an admirer of your fabulous work!
your Vohaul
Susan
Your chess blog is my source (and only) for chess information.
Your live analyse is very appreciate.
Thanks
Regards
Yves Bilodeau
Quebec
Canada
Susan, I think the new records are an answer to the question you asked earlier – do people want to see a lot of fighting chess played by lower-ranked players, or the elite games. Obviously, it’s the elite that attracts. Thousands of people log on before they know how exciting the ongoing game is going to be, just to see the superstars at work. Same thing is happening on other sites. The best Russian-language site ChessPro is currently moving to a larger server, because it couldn’t sustain the audience for the first three games.
Kramnik often gets blamed for boring style, for undeserved match with both Kasparov and now Topalov, but whenever he plays, all online site are full with spectators, many of whom are busy abusing him, but they do log on. A person who beat Kasparov will forever attract viewers.
“Kramnik often gets blamed for boring style, for undeserved match with both Kasparov and now Topalov, but whenever he plays, all online site are full with spectators…..”
The online sites are full because it is a WC unification match, not because of Kramnik in particular. There hasn’t been a match of this importance since 2000, and of course in those days the Internet was not yet so ubiquitous.
Thanks for your work!!!
Regards to you from Poland!
Kerry,
The location of Susan’s RSS feed is the standard Blogger site feed URL….
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/atom.xml
WG: thanks!!
Duh. I should have realized that the RSS feed would be a standard side effect of blogger.com
No problem. By the way, if anyone out there is using My Yahoo! as their home page and is unfamiliar with how to add Susan’s blog (or any other blog with an RSS feed), just follow these steps…
1. Click “Add Content” near the top left of your My Yahoo! page
2. Click “Add RSS by URL” next to the Find button
3. Paste in the URL (e.g. “http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/atom.xml”) and click Add
That’s it! Now you’ve got the blog on your home page.
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Blog has interesting comments…still can’t understand the rooting for Topalov (because of San Luis?)… could understand if it was,say, a Morozevich.
🙂
Lots to admire about Kramnik’s play, plus coming back from serious illness, etc…
Liked the technique at end of game 2 🙂
Find his style of play more interesting.
Hope he wins.
I think most dont care who wins, as long as:
1. FIDE and WC are united with a single title holder.
2. The game doesnt have one player collapsing due to off the board personal issues such as Kasparov’s custody issues in 2000, giving conspiracy theorists more ammunition about Russia.
Mostly the important point of #2 is that 100 years from now, kibitzers will judge the games, not the sidelines.
Thank you so much for your commentary on the world championship games!