The next World Championship match starts in a little more than two weeks. I updated my page on the match,
2016 Carlsen - Karjakin,
to add the latest FIDE announcements, including the image shown on the left.
Since my most recent post on the subject, World Chess Championship Buzz (September 2016), the most significant announcement has been Agon Press Release about World Championship Match (19 October 2016; fide.com). Although it started innocently,
Agon Ltd launches affiliate programme for broadcast of World Championship Match.
it ended aggressively,
[Agon's Chief Executive Ilya Merenzon] said: "A website that wants to broadcast the live moves for free simply has to request the use of our official widget. But any rogue website that chooses to operate a pirate broadcast of the live moves will be subject to legal action".
What does this mean for those of us who would like to watch the match? I'll look at this in my next post.
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