Thursday
Sep182014
Slate on Caruana and the Sinquefield Cup
Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 10:54PM
This clearly isn't written for chess players, but I do think that articles written by "civilians" (i.e. non-chess players) have been getting a bit better lately. Read at your own risk.
(HT: Robert Davis, who noted that the link to the article from Slate's home page asks "Can Chess Be Saved" and rejoins, "From what?")
Reader Comments (1)
This is a well written article but the title underlines a misnomer of the Author. While chess events may have relatively few live fans it has many more who replay the games or read articles about the event. Few of us have time to spend 5 hours of a day waiting for the moves to unfold. It is much easier to come to a site such as this one and play over all the games at one's convenience.
Chess is healthy and does not need a savior - although we could use a new FIDE President.