I am proud to say that for the 1st time ever, chess is more popular than cricket, and even Sachin Tendulkar on twitter, in India!
The #1 hashtag of all of India is #AnandCarlsen and #3 is #FWCM2013. #ThankYouSachin is #2. Over 1 billion people are expected to follow this World Championship between Anand and Carlsen. On behalf of the organizers, IM Lawrence Trent, GM Ramesh RB, and IM Tania Sachdev, a big thank you to all of you for supporting this event.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Its time to show the same enthusiasm to promote the Women World Championship – at least half as much effort will be an enormous improvement to current pathetic interest.
Thank you, Susan, for the fine commentary you are doing for the match.
I’m one of the diehard chess fans from California who watch the games (so far) from start to finish. The games start here at 1:30 AM. Please don’t ask me when I get any sleep.
The 4th game was very exciting.