| From the news: Can chess make it on TV? |
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| Written by Sciurus | |
| Thursday, 12 October 2006 | |
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As reported by the Seattle Times Eddie Chang and Clint Ballard are trying to make chess ready for the TV audience. This weekend, they are organizing a high-level chess tournament in Bellevue, Washington with special rules invented to make chess games more attractive by reducing the number of draws. Instead of the traditional system that gives the winner of a game 1 point and evenly splits the point in case of a draw, the "Ballard Anti-draw Point system (BAP)" rewards black with three and white with two points for winning. In case of a draw, black is rewarded one and white no point. The goal of this system is to force players to play for the win in all games. Clint Ballard plans to film the event to demonstrate that chess can be attractive for TV. To give the spectators the best possible experience, they will be allowed to walk around and watch the players up close. For more details and up-to-date coverage of the tournament, visit Slugfest7.com. The chess fan in me appreciates all attempts to make chess more popular (particularly, if it does not involve scandals such as "pottygate" at the current world championship). However, I have serious doubts that a broader TV audience would watch chess on TV. The game is simply too complex to be appreciated for people without at least some basic experience that goes beyond the "where does the horsey move" level. But then, I also do not understand, why anybody would watch poker on TV, and that is apparently pretty popular these days. What do you think about this? Will chess ever make it on TV? Comments (3)
 Will Chess ever make it on??
written by Paul, October 12, 2006 Chess on TV in the UK
written by Thomas David Baker, November 09, 2006
The Short v Kasparov series was televised sometime when I was in secondary school (late 80s, early 90s) on (I think) Channel 4 in the UK. Because Short was British I suppose. It was on every day about the time I got home from school if I remember rightly.
chess on tv written by joe, April 01, 2007
i hope someday there will b chess on tv via cable primetime y not at least give it a chance
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Play chess in style - 
I believe in the UK in the 70s (or thereabouts) there was a series of games that were televised. They went down quite will I seem to think, but it wasn't repeated.
I also seem to remember reading on www.chessbase.com about somethign similar to the BAP anti draw system. Can't remember what it was now though.