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Berlin Rapid and Blitz Championships happened last October. Moscow is now. Go find the Web sites yourself. New York is November and has already been announced. Have you been living under a rock?

Seven figures in dollars, which has already been reported. And Google knows exactly the size of the audience -- they wrote the metrics, which is why they are working with us. They know the audience for these events is in the tens of millions. They have measured it, not us. It is not just the "hard-c...

60,000 real viewers? Hmmm. Check out Magnus Carlsen's Facebook page: 410,000 likes. And NRK paid 7 figures for the right to a "fantasy" audience. Oh, and since this is already out now, Google is partnering with us on this broadcast. They are going to be taking some of the content we produce and post...

Fine. Don't look. The only way to find out what is being played is to look at the site. You can't look at the site without consenting. You want to boycott, boycott. Obviously no one can force you to watch the matches. But wherever you get the moves from, it has to come from someone who looked at the...

Actually, the click wrap agreement, or whatever it is called exactly, does include the PGN because it is a material part of the transmission. You look at the site, you have already consented. Period. Read the White paper on the Moscow Agon site. This is a slightly different situation than a football...

Hi all, Well, I have read the comments here with interest. I do understand the concerns (or more than concerns), but the idea behind what Agon is doing is really for commercial reasons and ultimately, we believe, for the benefit of chess. It's quite simple: advertisers are willing to sponsor big che...