Classical chess is a terrible game to watch , one of the reasons it doesn’t get the money other sports do . A live stream for the World Cup deciding match may g

Classical chess is a terrible game to watch , one of the reasons it doesn’t get the money other sports do . A live stream for the World Cup deciding match may get few thousand watchers at best . Pee wee league football gets more probably . It is not because chess takes 7 hours, because vast majority of the games are boring, take known lines and end up in an early draw. I watch test cricket and I find classical chess boring to watch despite having played semi-professionally. Test cricket goes on for 5 days, baseball goes on hours both are incredibly technical , as is f1 or golf. I rather watch test cricket than nfl , there is just unconsumable levels of ad to content ratio It is not because it is long with lot of breaks in the middle of the action to be strategic that it is not as interesting . There is a reason why NFL gets no traction outside the USA , all other sports I listed have global audiences even baseball