Saturday, December 27, 2014

lion of the blogosphere: is chess declining in popularity?

He cites the NY Times cancelling its chess column and then asks if chess is declining in popularity?

3 comments:

  1. newspapers are declining in popularity!!

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  2. I think AoxomoxoA kinda hit the nail on the head there. I also think people have many other places to go than the NYT for their chess (and have for a long time).

    He also fails to ask such things like "declining with whom?" and what exactly popular means, in the context of a game played by tens of millions of people (at least) across the globe, at all hours of the day.

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  3. agree with both your comments. NY Times seems to be "the" news source of a lot of NE US Americans - who view themselves as the center of the world. I can't see chess declining in popularity ... in fact, I think Magnus is helping make chess become more popular. Newspapers are declining.

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