Will FIDE plan to commercialise chess help the game?
In general, this idea is correct. I just don’t understand how FIDE is going to force chess organisers, who went through a lot of trouble to find the money, to give it to FIDE. The President of FIDE does a lot for chess, but the organisation lacks people who understand professional chess. For example, NBA discuss every year how to make basketball more attractive. For example, they have TV coverage and lots of money, but spectators lose interest a bit. That did not pass NBA unnoticed and perhaps they will alter the rules slightly (e.g. by reducing attacking time from 30 to 20 seconds) in order to keep their game popular. If even such rich Federation is concerned about the image of its sports, I cannot understand why the same does not happen in chess. We urgently need changes. It is a shame that even when Kasparov (who would be an equivalent of Michael Jordan in chess) plays, there are only 10 (as in Linares) or 20 (as here) spectators. Of course, we also need to modernise the rating syst
