[quote name=\'Robair\' date=\'Apr 30 2004, 11:21 AM\'] And chess? Many the day was I was lured away from that first season of TPIR by the live coverage of the Chess Tournament featuring Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, from Iceland, on Channel 13. [/quote]
The problem is, considering the politics concerning international chess over the past few years, it would be impossible to schedule. I know at least one major media outlet - I want to say the New York Times - actually told its chess correspondant that they would no longer be covering major events like the World Championship as they couldn't afford to send anybody to various points around the world only to find out that the match was called off yet again.
Even if they did agree on when and where, covering a chess match live is a time-consuming deal - what happens when somebody takes 30 minutes for their next move, which is quite possible in the early part of a championship match with 2 hours to make the first 40 moves?
(I remember the PBS coverage of Spassky-Fischer - the chess experts were in the middle of analyzing each move when they were interrupted by the DING DING DING of the teletype bell followed by a printout of the next move.)
-- Don