2020 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals

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John Sellen
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Re: 2020 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals

Post by John Sellen » Sat Aug 22, 2020 12:00 pm

Couldn't agree more Chris
I found the final very exciting and great commentary on Chess24
Sadly some people on this forum seem to determined to be negative about everything

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Re: 2020 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals

Post by JustinHorton » Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:04 pm

Chris Rice wrote:
Sat Aug 22, 2020 8:12 am
An article from CNN correspondent, Ben Morse, states "Nearly 70 million TV and online viewers tuned in"
I wouldn't mind seeing that figure broken down
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Re: 2020 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:44 pm

"I wouldn't mind seeing that figure broken down"

At least they didn't grumble that it was less than 10 % of the world's chess players...

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Re: 2020 Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour Finals

Post by Mick Norris » Sat Aug 22, 2020 5:02 pm

TWIC final report
The event also managed to raise $50,000 for the charity Kiva. What now though? Carlsen will play the over the board event the 8th Altibox Norway Chess tournament 5th to 16th October with Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Alireza Firouzja and Aryan Tari, perhaps the only over the board superGM event of the year since the lock down apart from the Candidates tournament.
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