The author is suggesting scraping the world championship in favor of a golf or tennis-like grand slam: have four major tournaments per year. These tournaments w

The author is suggesting scraping the world championship in favor of a golf or tennis-like grand slam: have four major tournaments per year. These tournaments would still have champions, upsets, underdogs, and narratives to them. It works well enough in golf and tennis. There's the Wijk aan Zee tournament every year which should be on the list. It's up for debate what the others would be. I like the suggestion personally and hope to see it happen. This is coming from a chess player and fan. Also, up until recently, you used to be able to find chess columns and puzzles in the newspapers. Nowadays they've been cut or replaced by sudoku. But for a long time that was excellent PR. I don't think it's fair to say chess never had great PR, since even in the US it used to be in the newspapers regularly. And it's still popular in Europe.