It`s not a World Championship.
The time control is ridiculous.
They have BLITZ in there.

Of course, nobody who cares about quality chess is taking this seriously any
more than they would any other speedgame tournament. Sponsors are probably
more interested in things like World Championship matches and
supertournaments at classical time controls. They`d probably be even more
interested in such things if they forbade agreed draws in under 40 moves or
something.



"PeteCasso" wrote in message
...
There are more players and officials in the WCC in Libya than people in
the
audience. A picture on the Chessbase web site shows a mere four
individuals
in the audience. No wonder that there is a lack of sponsors too!

I wonder if the organizers track the size of the off-site audience who
watch
the games via the Internet. I don't see any numbers published in this
regard. Or is the size of the off-site audience also so small, that
publishing it would do more harm than good for attracting sponsors?