They are making a respectable game into a joke, please stop this whoever is making it.

did you see the Bristol Citys on Alena?

pmsl

More of the same, good stuff! I was baffled by the last game where Alisa lost when her opponent only had 50 odd seconds left, but that's chess!

It's definitely a good idea to keep the analysis simple - the board positions are on screen long enough for more experienced players to do some quick analysis of thier own rather than follow the commentary (which is fairly basic).

Funky show, well worth a view and it's been produced in such a way that it should hopefully get kids interested in the game. Certainly in this country, there is still stigma attached by youngsters regarding chess. One of our junior players (one of the top juniors in the county) goes to a school which has a chess club but he refuses to join or discuss chess at his school because it's not considered "cool". I think that's a real shame and the lad himself is anything but "uncool".

If we had more of this sort of programme over here, perhaps chess would have less stigma attached to it. At the end of the day, having mad chess skills is not a lot different to having made skateboarding skills!

many people have different attitudes towards jennifer-some say pretty and explains well, some say annoying voice-i think she did a good job, since this show is meant for newbies, not 1300 and above rated players. 

obviously the quality of games were raised from 1700/1800 back to the normal fm/nm rating. 

i actually think it was better this time around.

perhaps showing all the moves would help, and explain only the important ones. 

The last thing we need is to dumb chess down and make a cheesy reality TV show out of it where the characters argue about whether men or woman are better at chess and use the word "like" 5 times in every sentence

I like the show quite a bit - find it very engaging. I like most of the commentator work. They seem to be in the flow of the game, so some things go wrong/don't make sense. That's OK. In this show, chess is cool. Very nice to see - for a change.

I'll definitely be watching the next episodes. Keep up the great work!

Go Elliott!  

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I agree that episode 2 is much better.  The commentators at least sound like they are talking about chess this time around.  Jennifer's voice is very annoying though.  And the cheerleading for the female players was laid on very thick.  Replace the commentators and Greg, get rid of the weird tiebreaking rule, and show all of the moves -- not just the cherry-picked ones -- and the show would be more interesting.

I do like the mini-bios. 

That's a pretty good show.

Their ideas for direct elimination games are excellent (betting in time to pick colours, tie-break with remaining times after a draw).