tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post7689959349707717737..comments2023-03-22T07:01:56.428+01:00Comments on Lost On Time: Hundreds of millions onlineejhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-12202626757030069132016-11-20T18:59:55.200+01:002016-11-20T18:59:55.200+01:00OK, I tracked it down again.
"According to t...OK, I tracked it down again.<br /><br />"According to the Agon, to date, more than 1.8 billion English-speaking people know about the game Carlsen-Karjakin from the media."<br /><br />https://twitter.com/Chess__News/status/799345851713863680<br /><br />Agon sued for $4.5 million in the injunction, which at $15 a go, means they think chess24 and chessgames have 300K watching?!Name/URLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-16459316965885014172016-11-19T12:38:14.819+01:002016-11-19T12:38:14.819+01:00It wasn't in spamIt wasn't in spamejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-36547284255055682552016-11-17T22:44:43.330+01:002016-11-17T22:44:43.330+01:00More spam eating. Maybe because the text was in Ru...More spam eating. Maybe because the text was in Russian? It quoted Agon on 1.8 billion English speakers knowing about the match because of the media.Name/URLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-8208314102711511202016-11-16T19:51:54.213+01:002016-11-16T19:51:54.213+01:00Susan Polgar @SusanPolgar 4h 4 hours ago Missouri...<i>Susan Polgar @SusanPolgar 4h 4 hours ago Missouri, USA<br /><br />Huge interest #CarlsenKarjakin gm4: <br />780+K twitter impression + 450+K Facebook post reach + http://www.ChessDailyNews.com = 1.5+ mil</i><br /><br />Amazing she reaches only about 0.25% of worldwide chess fans.NewMathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-7524125940471604612016-11-15T21:38:29.911+01:002016-11-15T21:38:29.911+01:00Ha, "impressions".Ha, "impressions".ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-24907217936056020542016-11-15T19:55:39.724+01:002016-11-15T19:55:39.724+01:00As stated in the FIDE Minutes (4.2), they have act...As stated in the FIDE Minutes (4.2), they have actually requested Agon to take up a corporate presence in a more transparent location (UK/EU/USA/Canada): <i>Mr. Merenzon said in the next few months they will register Agon in United Kingdom and all financial and ownership details about the company will be public.</i><br /><br />Regarding chess fandom size, Susan Polgar tweets after Game 3: <i>The #CarlsenKarjakin global interest is remarkable. I have over 701,000 twitter impressions in past 24 hrs following the twitter commentary!</i>Laarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-40408652888783815562016-11-15T00:04:58.254+01:002016-11-15T00:04:58.254+01:00Cymanco, the parent of World Chess, is listed in t...<i>Cymanco, the parent of World Chess, is listed in the Panama Papers as being owned by European Food Supplies Corporation, which is Ukraine based.</i><br /><br />That may well be a red herring. The context I seem to get for Cymanco is that it's a "rent a Company Secretary" organisation. It's based in Cyprus and owned, it would appear, by Ukrainians. <br /><br />The real revelation would be if it was possible to show that Agon was owned or financed by Kirsan or that he was a beneficiary in some manner. <br /><br />Trying to take legal action in American courts does at least flush out some of these ownership and control issues. <br /><br />RdCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-62677607624552826062016-11-13T08:32:18.426+01:002016-11-13T08:32:18.426+01:00Fished out now. I'm afraid I have no idea why ...Fished out now. I'm afraid I have no idea why it does that!ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-76284110916525464942016-11-13T01:25:57.545+01:002016-11-13T01:25:57.545+01:00More spam eating. It took my post about Agon's...More spam eating. It took my post about Agon's lawyer's past with hot news. Maybe because of a PDF link?Laarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-5024901350918946872016-11-12T14:31:31.271+01:002016-11-12T14:31:31.271+01:00Chessdom (who is an Agon affiliate) agrees, more t...Chessdom (who is an Agon affiliate) agrees, more than a billion expected!<br /><br /><i>The 12 round match will take place between 11-30 November and is expected to attract a global online and TV audience of more than 1 billion fans. </i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-91286858312767561822016-11-12T10:54:19.293+01:002016-11-12T10:54:19.293+01:00Agon's lawyer previously wrote an opinion wher...Agon's lawyer previously wrote an opinion where he argues that time-sensitivity is not that important in the hot news doctrine, and that free-riding is the ultimate test.<br /><br />https://www.pbwt.com/content/uploads/2015/07/TheFlyonTheWall_ABA_Jan2012.pdf<br /><br /><i>There is no particular reason why free-riding needs to be limited to time-sensitive information, other than the historical happenstance that that was one of the features of the INS facts.</i><br /><br /><i>As far as timing goes, the real requirement seems to be that the copyist grabbed the material at the point where the profit is to be reaped. I can think of various situations in which that test would be met under other than real-time dissemination conditions.</i><br /><br />Whereas in the instant case, he tried to emphasize that Agon's "rights" ended when the game terminated (is this when the profit can no longer be reaped?). On the other hand, in the Barclays/Fly case there actually was copyrighted material at stake (being used as "fair use" in reporting), while I don't think that is the argument here.Laarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-1704076397513627732016-11-12T08:19:22.213+01:002016-11-12T08:19:22.213+01:00Cymanco, the parent of World Chess, is listed in t...Cymanco, the parent of World Chess, is listed in the Panama Papers as being owned by European Food Supplies Corporation, which is Ukraine based.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-431599014210784542016-11-12T00:11:56.960+01:002016-11-12T00:11:56.960+01:00Now if Google would report that "Trompowsky A...Now if Google would report that "Trompowsky Attack" was it's most popular search...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-51846556515096682172016-11-11T19:23:18.422+01:002016-11-11T19:23:18.422+01:00No, it was in fact the spam filter!No, it was in fact the spam filter!ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-76455664190171206082016-11-11T10:19:56.010+01:002016-11-11T10:19:56.010+01:00Oh wait, sorry, I posted that in the other thread,...Oh wait, sorry, I posted that in the other thread, of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-14173631926122052662016-11-11T10:19:26.602+01:002016-11-11T10:19:26.602+01:00Seems to have eaten the post about "Billions&...Seems to have eaten the post about "Billions" of chess fans as spam. Maybe it's an intelligent service?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-11276938915558928792016-11-11T09:32:07.742+01:002016-11-11T09:32:07.742+01:00Upped the ante!!
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/...Upped the ante!!<br /><br />http://english.alarabiya.net/en/sports/2016/11/11/Billions-to-tune-in-for-match-up-between-baby-faced-chess-giants.html<br /><br /><b>Billions to tune in for match-up between baby-faced chess giants</b><br /><br />The article only quotes Merenzon (of Agony) on the 600 million.<br /><br />And here are your expectations:<br /><i>Tens of millions of fans are expected to follow live online, free of charge through the worldchess.com website and affiliate partners. </i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-32198232852156346782016-11-11T06:55:54.834+01:002016-11-11T06:55:54.834+01:00Unclear if there will be a Presidential Board meet...Unclear if there will be a Presidential Board meeting in NYC, given that Ilyumzhinov and seemingly Makro are not around (though maybe Gelfer just speaks English better for all I know).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-85412333293802820612016-11-11T03:42:53.011+01:002016-11-11T03:42:53.011+01:00Regarding the IMSA non-payment (9.1), Nigel was tw...Regarding the IMSA non-payment (9.1), Nigel was tweeting about this in June. https://twitter.com/nigelshortchess/status/744831252105142272<br /><br /><i>3 months after the IMSA event in Huai'an, the players have not been paid. Another financial scandal for IMSA & FIDE President @Ilyumzhinov</i><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-14064092429795793512016-11-11T01:41:04.167+01:002016-11-11T01:41:04.167+01:00Er, further to my earlier post, the video has chan...Er, further to my earlier post, the video has changed and Michael Stanton is now speaking from 31 minutes in.AngusFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09312254103335063535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-79132802779770097012016-11-11T01:30:08.095+01:002016-11-11T01:30:08.095+01:00Seems that Merenzon's imaginary sponsors that ...Seems that Merenzon's imaginary sponsors that were to be announced 3 weeks before the event have not appeared.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-3243311544609915212016-11-10T21:58:49.634+01:002016-11-10T21:58:49.634+01:00Here is a link to the Agon case. If you get a PACE...Here is a link to the Agon case. If you get a PACER account, I think you get 150 free pages for every 3 months.<br /><br />https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/19780738/World_Chess_US,_Inc_et_al_v_Chessgames_Services_LLC_et_al<br /><br />They managed to have a typographical error, deficient pleading, the wrong county listed, faulty issuance of summons, ...<br /><br />This is the first time I have heard of the parent "Cymanco Services Limited" of World Chess Events Limited.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-86429739188363750152016-11-10T20:02:19.877+01:002016-11-10T20:02:19.877+01:00Chess in Media note (sorry if this is wrong place)...Chess in Media note (sorry if this is wrong place):<br /><br />It's about interstate sales tax on Internet purchases in USA.<br /><br /><b>Another Move in the Marketplace Fairness Chess Game</b> (June 22, 2016)<br /><br />http://www.gfoa.org/another-move-marketplace-fairness-chess-game<br /><br /><i>An Internet retailer has filed suit against the State of Alabama, claiming its new rule requiring that all retailers selling more than $250,000 in goods annually must collect sales tax...</i>Ochonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-55412613565724046302016-11-10T18:50:31.300+01:002016-11-10T18:50:31.300+01:00Michael Stanton of EG Capital Advisors at the Pres...Michael Stanton of EG Capital Advisors at the <a href="http://www.vgtv.no/#!/live/133795/direkte-magnus-carlsen-og-utfordrer-sergej-karjakin-moeter-pressen" rel="nofollow">Press Conference for the 2016 World Championship</a> (about 50 minutes in, answering a question on why his company is providing sponsorship):<br />"<i>There are 600 million people in the world who currently play chess and... FIDE is working very hard to try to increase that number to 1 billion.</i>"AngusFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09312254103335063535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-970746810324898604.post-61823272850730118352016-11-10T07:56:25.326+01:002016-11-10T07:56:25.326+01:00There is also this is Asian report (Annex 64): 5. ...There is also this is Asian report (Annex 64): <i>5. Review of Competition Regulations<br />Mr. Hisham Al-Taher proposed that players should wear national uniforms and that players not in uniform cannot play. Continental Assembly supported the proposal to be incorporated in the regulations as a dress code.</i><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com