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The whole page is a joke. If you click on the first link on the page, you'll get the joke, hopefully. It's a satire of chess.com's calling a chess.com competiti
by yesenadam 4y ago
The whole page is a joke. If you click on the first link on the page, you'll get the joke, hopefully. It's a satire of chess.com's calling a chess.com competition the "chess.com world championship".
- somenameforme 4y agoChess.com's world championship is itself taken less than seriously. The event is real, the prizes are real, and so on. But they're not really hiding the fact that it's just a huge event. Here is the [genuine] official trailer/advert/thing for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GijccIzh5YI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GijccIzh5YI
- yesenadam 4y agoYes, I wasn't suggest it's seriously meant to be a real world championship! (I guess more than a few people new to the scene will think it is the real thing though.) p.s. Although I mostly have to avoid chess.com youtube channel because I can't stand Danny Rensch for a moment, recently I've been loving chess.com's Rapid Chess Championship, a huge event over 6 months or so, featuring what seems all the world's best players, in a regular Swiss + Knockout on successive days. I've found the Swiss just has too many games, but the Knockout is perfect chess viewing when some combination of Naroditsky/Hess/Yasser/Aman are commentating. Great chess + a lot of laughs. https://www.youtube.com/c/chesscomlive/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/chesscomlive/videos