On Sep 23, 8:33 am, David Richerby
wrote:
Rich Hutnik wrote:
Part of the idea for the doubling cube is to resolve the draw issue.
A larger framework issue for the question is one about how do you
make chess more appealing for people to watch over television, so
that the game would grow in popularity. There is currently, I
believe, a chess match that is going for $1.5 million in prize money
to the winner. These stakes should draw more media attention than
it is. Are the games being televised?

Dude, draws are not the reason that chess is not popular on TV. Chess
is not popular on TV because absolutely nothing happens for fifteen
minutes or more at a time and, then when something does eventually
happen, you need extensive training to understand its significance.

Ok, I will start another thread with this more general question. It
is, why should poker get such TV coverage and chess not?

Because something actually happens in poker.

Have you ever watched prolong poker being played? There is a bunch of
even LESS action that you have with chess. There is more activity,
but less action. It is reality TV editing that is why you get what
appears to be more action than there is. Similar would need to be
done with chess and other abstract strategy games. But, there are
other issues. What poker does have that makes it watchable TV is big,
unexpected things that can happen, which you can show at the right
moments, and do a television show with editing all the bits together.
Poker is not shown live for this reason, but edited and shown later,
as a collection of highlights. Also, poker has a lot of player vs
player, and not just different board positions. Showing it as a
struggle of players against each other makes for drama, something that
could possibly be done with chess. The question is: What do you do?

This is in another thread.

- Rich