A live network of chess world competitions is monopolized and fans all over the world are furious

ByHyperXP.com

Hold up the challenge rights of chess world champion in Moscow, RussiaWorld Chess Candidates TournamentIt is held from March 10 th to 20 th 2016. The winner is the top title of the chess championship title "Grand MasterBe a holderMagnus CarlsenIt is a tournament that can challenge athletes and attract attention of chess fans all over the world, but suddenlyInternational Chess Federation(World Chess Federation) announced that "Do not do live internet live broadcasts" is calling for it.

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The International Chess Federation was hired to operate and broadcast the World Chess Candidates TournamentAGONHas announced new rules on tournament broadcasting such as "Do not allow live broadcasting" to other websites that had been live on the Internet for the convention until now. AGON's new rules also contain strict content that "other websites must not announce the history and results of the game until the end of the game."

AGON representative director Ilya Merenzon said about this decision "We judged that we need to protect sponsors' advertising rights from the evil web site trying to distract profits from this game that invested a lot," I talked in an interview. Several websites are against the new rules, but AGON has evolved into a situation in which it prosecutes a website expressing the opposition to the Moscow Court.

According to AGON, a website that wishes live broadcasting must subscribe to a paid subscription or purchase AGON's advertising space, and these new rules will include not only the World Chess Candidates Tournament, but also challengers and Carlsen players in New York It also applies to the title match with.

Most of the websites that had been live on the Internet so far have real time display of chess board movements, and the format like Nico Nico animation in which comments by grand master and fans are scrolled according to the trend of the game It is said that it is taking. A large amount of viewers are visiting this live internet live full of presence, and violent opposition comments from fans have occurred even on SNS.

It is one of the websites that has provided chess internet live broadcastChessdomHas already discontinued the live broadcast schedule, but on the website posted the opposite saying that they are trying to remove great content from millions of people. Some fans of other websites also call for boycotts of all international chess association events.


In addition, not all chess enthusiasts can not watch live internet live broadcasts,World ChessIn the meantime Moscow tournaments will be broadcast live free as before. However, it seems that complaints from all over the world are complaining that broadcasting is only in English, multilingual broadcasting which was done on the broadcast of other websites can not be watched, and comment system technology is low.

It has been sued by AGONChessBombWhenChess24.comHas announced that it will broadcast a live broadcast of the Moscow tournament as planned and chess 24 commented that "our broadcast is perfectly legal according to our advisory counsel's advice," ChessBomb said, "Volunteering "We will make sure that we will not interrupt the broadcast by taking a safe server in cooperation."


AGON will claim damages of 20 million rubles (about 33 million yen) against webs not complying with the new rules. Meanwhile Anton Mihailov, the top of Chessdom, said, "This decision may be backfired with the opposition of millions of chess fans, AGON may stop the whole chess boom," It is.