So long Mexico City. I am in the airport on my way home. I can’t wait to share many interesting tidbits with you.
The Internet in the Sheraton hotel was not very fast. It would take hours for me just to upload long videos. Therefore, I will upload more videos, pictures and post about many things that went on in Mexico City as soon as I am back in Texas.
The players were very happy with the playing conditions. The fans were absolutely wild. Everyone said that they have never witnessed more enthusiastic fans in chess.
I had exclusive interviews with all 8 players. In the upcoming week, I will also give my impression of each player as well as the good and not so good things about this World Championship.
Here are some quick statistics:
– On the last day, there were about 1.5 million hits to just the main website of the World Championship, not counting other coverage.
– There were people from 185 countries visited the website.
‘Hits’ are meaningless measures of audience-interest.
For example, logging in to this blog will cause lots of ‘hits’ as each photograph and chunk of text is a separate hit.
‘Page impressions’ is the official measure of traffic.
‘User strings’ are an approximate [as Paul knows] measure of the number of users.
If one confuses ‘hits’ with ‘users’, there’s potential to exaggerate by factors of 100s and 1,000s
Anand is a bit old, I just noticed!? Check out Leko, what a youngster,even Kramnik and Topalov!! Experience ruled in Mexico.
1 Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2801 21 1969
2 Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2787 20 1969
3 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2785 21 1975
4 Topalov, Veselin g BUL 2769 0 1975
5 Leko, Peter g HUN 2755 21 1979
6 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2755 19 1977
7 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar g AZE 2752 11 1985
8 Radjabov, Teimour g AZE 2742 9 1987
9 Aronian, Levon g ARM 2741 14 1982
10 Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2739 11 1972
11 Gelfand, Boris g ISR 2736 21 1968
12 Svidler, Peter g RUS 2732 25 1976
13 Adams, Michael g ENG 2729 16 1971
14 Kamsky, Gata g USA 2724 9 1974
15 Alekseev, Evgeny g RUS 2716 17 1985
16 Grischuk, Alexander g RUS 2715 23 1983
17 Carlsen, Magnus g NOR 2714 25 1990
18 Akopian, Vladimir g ARM 2713 5 1971
19 Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2710 23 1983
20 Polgar, Judit g HUN 2708 9 1976
21 Ponomariov, Ruslan g UKR 2705 5 1983
22 Wang, Yue g CHN 2703 27 1987
23 Bacrot, Etienne g FRA 2695 7 1983
24 Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2694 11 1990
25 Bu, Xiangzhi g CHN 2692 38 1985
26 Almasi, Zoltan g HUN 2691 14 1976
27 Malakhov, Vladimir g RUS 2690 15 1980
28 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam g UZB 2690 14 1979
29 Dominguez Perez, Lenier g CUB 2683 11 1983
30 Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2681 20 1983
31 Milov, Vadim g SUI 2680 42 1972
32 Van Wely, Loek g NED 2680 40 1972
33 Landa, Konstantin g RUS 2678 15 1972
34 Volokitin, Andrei g UKR 2678 5 1986
35 Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2676 11 1974
36 Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2674 20 1975
37 Inarkiev, Ernesto g RUS 2674 15 1985
38 Zvjaginsev, Vadim g RUS 2674 8 1976
39 Sokolov, Ivan g NED 2673 31 1968
40 Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2673 24 1983
41 Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2670 20 1978
42 Cheparinov, Ivan g BUL 2670 17 1986
43 Karpov, Anatoly g RUS 2670 9 1951
44 Krasenkow, Michal g POL 2668 33 1963
45 Harikrishna, P. g IND 2668 24 1986
46 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROU 2668 11 1976
47 Gashimov, Vugar g AZE 2663 23 1986
48 Tkachiev, Vladislav g FRA 2661 19 1973
49 Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2661 11 1981
50 Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2660 5 1982
51 Nikolic, Predrag g BIH 2657 18 1960
52 Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2657 4 1971
53 Lautier, Joel g FRA 2657 4 1973
54 Navara, David g CZE 2656 0 1985
55 Sutovsky, Emil g ISR 2655 18 1977
56 Fressinet, Laurent g FRA 2654 26 1981
57 Bareev, Evgeny g RUS 2653 0 1966
58 Miroshnichenko, Evgenij g UKR 2651 40 1978
59 Short, Nigel D g ENG 2649 36 1965
60 Georgiev, Kiril g BUL 2649 21 1965
61 Nakamura, Hikaru g USA 2648 21 1987
62 Volkov, Sergey g RUS 2648 11 1974
63 Naiditsch, Arkadij g GER 2647 20 1985
64 Socko, Bartosz g POL 2646 34 1978
65 Tomashevsky, Evgeny g RUS 2646 19 1987
66 Moiseenko, Alexander g UKR 2646 18 1980
67 Afromeev, Vladimir f RUS 2646 12 1954
68 Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2646 10 1953
69 Fedorchuk, Sergey A. g UKR 2645 59 1981
70 Predojevic, Borki g BIH 2645 18 1987
71 Motylev, Alexander g RUS 2645 14 1979
72 Zhang, Pengxiang g CHN 2644 38 1980
73 Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2644 24 1983
74 Roiz, Michael g ISR 2644 20 1983
75 Tiviakov, Sergei g NED 2643 53 1973
76 Wang, Hao g CHN 2643 47 1989
77 Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2643 10 1966
78 Izoria, Zviad g GEO 2643 9 1984
79 Ni, Hua g CHN 2641 29 1983
80 Avrukh, Boris g ISR 2641 15 1978
81 Baklan, Vladimir g UKR 2639 42 1978
82 Stellwagen, Daniel g NED 2639 19 1987
83 Smirin, Ilia g ISR 2639 17 1968
84 Areshchenko, Alexander g UKR 2638 5 1986
85 Amonatov, Farrukh g TJK 2637 46 1978
86 Timofeev, Artyom g RUS 2637 10 1985
87 Smirnov, Pavel g RUS 2636 0 1982
88 Wojtaszek, Radoslaw g POL 2635 11 1987
89 Najer, Evgeniy g RUS 2635 9 1977
90 Bauer, Christian g FRA 2634 30 1977
91 Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime g FRA 2634 24 1990
92 Sakaev, Konstantin g RUS 2634 0 1974
93 Zhang, Zhong g CHN 2634 0 1978
94 Lputian, Smbat G g ARM 2633 0 1958
95 Ye, Jiangchuan g CHN 2632 0 1960
96 Istratescu, Andrei g ROU 2631 9 1975
97 Mchedlishvili, Mikheil g GEO 2631 9 1979
98 Kobalia, Mikhail g RUS 2631 4 1978
99 Miton, Kamil g POL 2628 28 1984
100 Gurevich, Mikhail g TUR 2627 14 1959
Susan, I am a fan of the commemorate set you have shown some piciures of, with the knights rendered as in the logo for the event.
Is this a one-off, or do you know if such sets are available somehow?
DD-OK
How many unque visitors and webpage views? With 1,5 million hits most likely 8,000 users. This is very low when compared with majority of top level tournaments. Why? Webpage quality, lack of interesting content updates, too long event, lacking clarity on the outcome (canadidate matches or WC), live games taken and shown at other sites, FIDE / Global Chess management who have no skills in new age media…
yeah, the website stunk.
After following the Championship over the last few weeks, I realize that the Unitied States would not be able to hold such an event anytime soon. The grandeur that was shown is something no organizer would have the will to do. Those who do have the will, don’t have the resources.
Maybe ICC could organize it. They seem to be interested in covering the world championship, and could have will and means to do it. But why WC, when the US Championship costs less, and is covered equaly by relavant media. Russian coverage is irrelevant to the United States.
1.5m ‘hits’ is maybe 100k-200k ‘page impressions’, depending on page-structure.
If ‘push’ impressions – refreshes of the game-pages are counted, there would be 60 per game-watcher, but these would involve relatively few ‘hits’.
Difficult to guess number of visitors but I’ll go for 10k in round numbers.