This match is significant, even symbolic, for several reasons. For one, it shows how chess has gone down in popularity after these so many years. Yahoo! didn't even consider it worthy of an article, featuring it only as several pictures in its Yahoo! In Photos section. Next, Googling the event will land you in several regional internet news agency like this one, not really big at all considering the event. Well, Chess.com actually featured it in its site (click on the pic, which is also from the site). But even so, its article as well as those of other sites that cared enough to feature it casts an atmosphere of chess not being able to live up to its potential to become truly popular, then and much more now.What does the future holds for chess? Will it be relegated to the ranks of classics, held in high esteem, but never really something worth of wide coverage and exposure? Will somebody in the future be able to crack the code to bring it back (if it ever was) into the mainstream, embraced as the ultimate among intellectual games, and considered as equal with its counterparts in the physical arena?
We can only hope. Read More......
