This is quite an eye-opener.
This is pretty special too.
I'd be surprised if this was entirely within the law, although I don't suppose we'll ever find out - even if anybody were to try their luck in court I don't suppose there'll be much trace of AGON as a functioning organisation once this match is over.
I was going to say something like "and that was always the plan", but I don't imagine there's ever been a "plan", as such, just a way of doing things, and this is it.
This is, obviously, right:
It's not incompetence because it's not an accident. And the disinterest in paying spectators has always been an overt feature of the business model, ever since AGON first emerged at Simpson's, six years ago - at an event closed to the public.
Maybe it'd have been better if they did it that way, than charge seventy nicker for half an hour of chess. Either way is a monumental screw you to the chessplaying public. Go on, get these people hence.
That's because it's 2018 and people barely even go and watch interesting sports in the flesh any more if they can get a better view from their sofa. The ones who want to be in the same room as the players are the ones who want to be able to say "I was in the same room as the players". For which purpose half an hour is more than enough.
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