Do they do live chess coverage on a regular basis, or was the one I remember watching (the 1993 Times World Chess Championship between Short and Kasparov) a one-off?
That one actually made quite good TV, because the commentator team managed to be interesting when speculating about what the next few moves might be and what the likely consequences were. Not to mention the silly bit at the end (once Kasparov had won handily leaving a bunch of spare TV slots to fill) where the two players teamed up and took on the entire commentator team, as personified by Carol Vorderman wearing an earpiece, to demonstrate why they were sitting in the championship seats and the commentators weren't.
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That one actually made quite good TV, because the commentator team managed to be interesting when speculating about what the next few moves might be and what the likely consequences were. Not to mention the silly bit at the end (once Kasparov had won handily leaving a bunch of spare TV slots to fill) where the two players teamed up and took on the entire commentator team, as personified by Carol Vorderman wearing an earpiece, to demonstrate why they were sitting in the championship seats and the commentators weren't.