Who will win World Championship match 2016 in NY City? Carlsen by 2 points or more Karjakin by 2 points or more Carlsen by 1 point Karjakin by 1 point Carlsen by winning playoff Karjakin by winning playoff ...
World Championship on Facebook LIVE!
I will be doing Facebook LIVE recaps, highlights, and overviews of all games during the upcoming World Championship match between Carlsen and Karjakin. It will probably take place within 15 minutes after the conclusion of each game. There will...
Aiming to dethrone Carlsen
Russian grandmaster aims to dethrone chess king Carlsen Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber Oct 26, 2016, 11:12 PM Moscow (AFP) – Sitting next to an ornate chess board in his home outside Moscow, 26-year-old Russian grandmaster Sergei Karyakin lowers his gaze as...
Pay to hear or face legal action!
This is the new era of World Championship chess. ALL players MUST pay $15 to listen to the LIVE commentary. Any website which chooses to have their own commentators do LIVE commentary will face legal actions by AGON. What...
Agon Press Release about World Championship Match
Agon Ltd launches affiliate programme for broadcast of World Championship Match • Chess websites to profit from virtual reality broadcast of Match • Live moves will be freely available on major chess and media websites • National chess federations...
Why the double standard in chess?
Why the double standard for Men and Women? From ESPN Interview: Viswanathan Anand. five-time world champion dwelt on what he described a ‘pleasant and memorable experience’ during the 2000 World Championship, asserting that it’s largely a personal decision of...
WC first of any sport to be broadcast in 360° Virtual Reality
The World Chess Championship Match 2016 to become the first of any sport to be broadcast in 360° Virtual Reality The World Chess Championship Match, to take place in New York in November of 2016, is to be broadcast...
EG Capital Advisors signs deal with Agon to sponsor Carlsen v Karjakin match
EG Capital Advisors signs deal with Agon Ltd to become sponsor of FIDE World Chess Championship Match 2016 NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — EG Capital Advisors, the global holding company which, through its subsidiaries, advises the equivalent of...
Match of the century flashback (September 1, 1972)
Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky to become the first American world chess champion in 1972 (Originally published by the Daily News on Sept. 2, 1972. This story was written by Robert Byrne.) REYKJAVIK, ICELAND, Sept. 1 – Bobby Rischer...
2016 FIDE World Chess Championship has new sponsor
MOSCOW, August 30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — On the eve of the World Chess Championship match scheduled for 11-30 November in New York City, PhosAgro (Moscow Exchange, LSE: PHOR), one of the world’s leading vertically integrated phosphate-based fertilizer producers, announces...