@robocop

"Well well. Where are the Carlsen Bashers now huh?????"

Hurry. They've moved on to round 10. You can round 'em up there. No need waiting until the next tournament Carlsen's crashing now. See #3 on LiveRating list. Sorry.

Well well. Where are the Carlsen Bashers now huh????? Talking about his career as a fashion model ruins his chess right?

Carlsen proved them wrong :-) Think he will winn the tournement so the bashers have to wait till next big event.

GL Carlsen

instructive&nice :)

Carlsen is so modest for such a young genius, all the best to him!

They can put a man on the moon, why can't they make a decent demonstration board?

Apart from that, it's always nice to have the players explain their thoughts :-)

das is a Chicken

"Carlsen happily accepted to show the game..."
Happily?
Happiness takes on strange shape in the chess world.

You seem to be saying that our coverage is 'not much better than terrible', but I do hope you're enjoying our daily reports and nowhere-else-to-be-found press conference videos. ;-)

To answer the question why we're not doing daily video reports: I answered this question in our report of the second round. Here's what I wrote last week:

To start, it’s important to note that the dozens of videos we did in previous years in Wijk aan Zee were the result of a cooperation between the tournament and ChessVibes. We’re still grateful to the organizers, who supported us from the start, and helped us to become “that site famous for its chess videos” in a short time. This cooperation culminated in last year’s extensive coverage which included the daily round reports with Bianca and short interviews for the official website (also embedded here), and the press conferences (just here).

Unfortunately for this year the organizers decided to discontinue this cooperation, and work with a different video crew. You can watch their videos here.

To this I can add that the tournaments in Romania and in China also supported us. In fact these videos were made in the first place for the official websites, and they allowed us to show them at ChessVibes as well. As explained above, this construction ceased to exist in Wijk aan Zee.

How pathetic are those demonstration boards?? Its so hard to show a game on them! They should use boards with magnetic pieces.

Where are organizers?? World Number 1 is showing his game and there is no place to put away captured pieces!! This is ridiculous!

Tata manages its business in the same way? :)

and what's funny...

LOL 1: In the first video after 05.50. Magnus talks about Nakamuras move:

"He played queen C5, which is probably a terrible move!"

LOL 2: In the second video after 07.09:

"What I did was really simple..."

I remember the fantastic coverage ChessVibes did at a tournament in Roumania a few months ago. Then in China the coverage was also superb.
The London Chess Classic had a wonderful site with live videos.

After being spoiled with great chess journalism, it is dificult to understand this poor coverage of a tournament happening in Holland, the home of ChessVibes. Is the new sponsor Tata responsible?

The official site is terrible and at ChessVibes it is not much better.

What is happening?

I would like to have Feller's comment instead

There is some criticism of the demo board, but don't underestimate low-tech solutions. Bent Larsen was always traveling around with a pocket chess where a lost pawn was substituted with a German 10-pfennig coin. So here is a low-tech suggestion:

Please go buy a 1$ cardboard box and put it on top of a chair - then the presenters don't have to fiddle around with all the captured pieces in the hands, they can put them down and take them up from the box effortlessly.

It would be nice if more players showed their games. Based upon the limited post-game coverage I have seen thus far, it seemed to me that either most players weren't showing their games or that the postgame analysis hadn't been publicized/posted. If this is truly the case, it's too bad, because many aspiring players like myself would love to hear the ideas of the world's best players. The tournament thus far, however, has been a gem. There is certainly a lot of drama left for the last quarter of the tournament, especially with the standings being the way they are.

I apologise in advance but I have one totally off-topic question. Is that scrolling Twitter box on this site necessary? It is terribly distracting because it moves; the text in it is so garbled that it is virtually unreadable anyway, and if one nevertheless takes the effort and reads it, he finds a pile of old headlines.

Just to clarify: we certainly are allowed to film inside the playing hall. It's just that creating good videos takes so many hours of both filming and editing, that we simply cannot do this anymore without support from a tournament.

This was one of the most interesting games i've watched in a long time. Especially nice to watch if you have problems with the Najdorf! Glad to see an extensive video report here on chessvibes.i Wouldnt it be great if we had videos like this of Zurich 53? Keep up the good work !