The Lichess World Championship

https://lichess.org/blog/YmXOfxEAAB4AJh8A/announcing-the-lichess-world-championship

by eklitzke • 4 years ago

38 10 4 years ago

dudus• 4 years ago

  > Some naysayers may point out that The World Championship match is always the high-water mark for interest in chess and watering it down with a series of dueling World Championship titles could cause damage to the sport as a whole. What those people don’t realize is how much money we’re going to make off of this! Perhaps in the long term a World Championship schism will “kill the golden goose” as it were, but in the short term? I want a Jet Ski!

Was this supposed to be a joke? I don't get it Lichess!

cmeacham98• 4 years ago

Click the first link in TFA - the entire post is tongue-in-cheek.

Someone• 4 years ago

I’m not sure ;-)

Boxing has multiple world championships, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_world_boxing_c..., and so has chess boxing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing#WCBA_and_WCBO)

Why would chess be different?

In fact, chess _had_ multiple world championships for a while (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship#Split...)

yesenadam3• 4 years ago

The whole page is a joke. If you click on the first link on the page, you'll get the joke, hopefully. It's a satire of chess.com's calling a chess.com competition the "chess.com world championship".

somenameforme• 4 years ago

Chess.com's world championship is itself taken less than seriously. The event is real, the prizes are real, and so on. But they're not really hiding the fact that it's just a huge event.

Here is the [genuine] official trailer/advert/thing for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GijccIzh5YI

chesserik• 4 years ago

I guess I need a Jet Ski?!

$1 million dollars in prizes. $250k+ in production costs. I'm expecting 10-20,000 registrants. We are going to make a KILLING!!!!!!!!!!

The Lichess World Championship

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